Author: vanlovesart

Crystal Pite’s “Body and Soul” has me questioning what it is to be human, and whether it’s different than being any other animal. The incredible dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet take us on a journey exploring human nature and

In Heist’s “Frequencies,” Aaron Collier takes us on a journey that combines techno music, philosophy and deep interrogations of space and time. This live-streamed performance exceeded my expectations on all levels. I had not attended a theatre production for almost a year

When I tuned in to recent SFU graduate Caroline MacCaull’s 003_playback, I felt like I was watching two shows at once. There was the dance, of course, but the spectacle put on by the audience was equally diverting. Part of

  They’re throwing phrases around like “light at the end of the tunnel” and “new year, new beginnings” and “Vaccines! Vaccines! Vaccines!” 2020 was so off-script that feeling hopeful now feels like a trap. But hope is powerful. It is

“Black Bear” has been marketed as a cross between a thriller and a comedy. I’d say it’s a cross between a mushroom trip and a fever dream. Director Lawrence Michael Levine has created a work that is so novel it

The world premiere of the documentary Frida Kahlo at VIFF unsurprisingly adds little to the gargantuan body of work on Frida. In fact, the parts that were left out of the documentary become the most revealing elements in a film which otherwise

  The Giller Prize-Winning Writer on Craft, “Reproduction”, Academia, Workshopping, and His Pandemic-Edition Creative Process   I never understood why critics sometimes describe books as “devastating” but after reading Ian William’s “Reproduction,” I get why. The book is, at once,