talkperformanceOct 2, 20209 minMusings: Am I Integrated?Alex Lazaridis F. I'm the artistic director of the performance company Fight With a Stick. It's a sort of hybrid theatre-and-installatio...
talkperformanceMar 27, 202012 minThe Democratic Set—Back to Back Theatre (Melbourne, Australia) (PuSh Fest 2020)Jan 21-23, 35. The Roundhouse. PuSh Festival 2020. By Alex Lazaridis F. (Warning: This is article is part review and part discussion of c...
talkperformanceFeb 22, 20204 minA User's Guide to Authenticity is a Feeling—PME-ART (Canada) (PuSh Fest 2020)A User's Guide to Authenticity is a Feeling — PME-ART Feb 5-6. Western Front. PuSh Festival 2020. By Alex Lazaridis F. Authenticity is a ...
talkperformanceFeb 17, 20205 minCutlass Spring — Dana Michel (Montreal) (PuSh 2020 Review) Photo by Jocelyn Michel
talkperformanceMar 27, 20195 minHieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights — Compagnie Marie Chouinard (Review)Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights — Compagnie Marie Chouinard March 15 and 16, Vancouver Playhouse, Dance House Season By ...
talkperformanceMar 4, 20196 minFragile Forms — MACHiNENOiSY (Canada) (PuSh 2019 review) Feb 2-7 Anvil Centre By Mikis Vrettakos The Anvil Center in New Westminster is a building at odds with the older structures on Columbia ...
talkperformanceFeb 13, 20195 minsalt. — Selina Thompson (UK) (PuSh 2019 review)January 24-27 The Roundhouse By Alex Lazaridis F. As I enter the Roundhouse theatre, near start time, performer-writer Selina Thompson is...
talkperformanceNov 27, 20184 minThe Black Piece (Dance Review) — WArd/waRDNovember 6-8 The Dance Centre By Alex Lazaridis Ferguson A main feature of The Black Piece, by Dutch-Flemish choreographer Ann Van den Br...
talkperformanceNov 27, 20185 min12 Minute Madness (theatre review) — Upintheair TheatreMay 23-27 The Cultch By Hailey McCloskey Written and directed by Raina Von Waldenberg, the interaction starts immediately. I walk in...
talkperformanceOct 29, 20184 minContes Cruels (dance review) — Les Productions Figlio May 23-26 Firehall Arts Centre By Hailey McCloskey Serge Bennathan's Contes Cruels opens with a bare stage, exposed, no curtains. S...
talkperformanceJun 16, 20185 minMusings — Immersion v. aesthetic distance: the case of WET.Wet — an immersive play at The Russian Hall Alex Lazaridis Ferguson Immersive theatre — theatre where the audience is right inside the pe...
talkperformanceMar 15, 20185 minBETROFFENHEIT (Review) — Kidd Pivot and The Electric CompanyMarch 14-17 Vancouver Playhouse Virtuosity and Absolution in Betroffenheit Alex Lazaridis Ferguson [Note: This review originally appeared...
talkperformanceMar 9, 20189 minFOXCONN FREQUENCY (NO. 3): FOR THREE VISIBLY CHINESE PERFORMERS – HKX (Vancouver) PuSh 2018 ReviewJan 31-Feb 1 Performance Works Alex Lazaridis Ferguson I’m in a theatre watching a game. What kind of game is it? What kind of theatre ...
talkperformanceFeb 15, 20188 min I'M NOT HERE Theatre Club (Ireland) PuSh 2018 reviewJan 24-28 The Cultch Hailey McCloskey I'm Not Here, written, directed and designed by Doireann Coady (Theatreclub, Ireland), is about a w...
talkperformanceFeb 2, 20183 minENDINGS Tamara Saulwick (Australia) Push 2018 reviewJanuary 26-28 Roundhouse Alex Lazaridis Ferguson Death is everywhere in Endings. A gradual kind of death, one that allows for reflection....
talkperformanceFeb 2, 20184 minMEETING Antony Hamilton & Alisdair Macindoe (Australia) Push 2018 ReviewJan 24-27 Performance Works (Image by Gregory Lorenzutti) Alex Lazaridis Ferguson Are the humans still human? Meeting is a performance ab...