Author: vanlovesart

Everything you expect from a theatrical piece titled “School Girls: An African Mean Girls Play,” you get and then some! For women of colour specifically, watching an all black and all female cast is a special and rare treat altogether.

Ballet BC’s “Program 2”, features three pieces from internationally renowned choreographers, Jorma Elo, Adi Salant, and Crystal Pite. It is a nicely balanced program, contrasting classical prowess with conceptual richness. If there is a commonality between themes investigated, it is

The description for “Palmyra” sounds heavy: a show with only two men, full of broken plates, and named after a Syrian city known for its incredible art and architecture – which was tragically destroyed by ISIS. And “Palmyra” is heavy –

Child sexual abuse is not the easiest theme to tackle. We attended “Grace” on the day of the Women’s March here in Toronto, which unwittingly heightened our expectations of the production. In the #metoo era, an exploration of sex abuse survival

When Julia Croft comes on stage and plays with the microphone for a good ten minutes, no one in the audience knows what to expect. The sounds are that of her making through her performance, but the show has little

It was chilling, and not because bricks of dry ice were being pulled from a family sized cooler. The scene was dark and the room was quiet—in the beginning. Tetsuya Umeda walked across a wide room effortlessly navigating a collection

Cecily Nicholson won the 2018 Governor General’s Award for English-language poetry for her latest book, “Wayside Sang”. She has two other books of poetry called “Triage” (2011) and “From the Poplars” (2014). “Wayside Sang” concerns entwined migrations of Black-other diaspora coming