Category Archives: The Niagara Shebang
In Between Stories: The Niagara Shebang presentation April 11, 2014
On Friday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m, at the Sullivan Mahoney Courthouse Theatre in St Catharines, ontario, local Niagara Shebang artists Aaron Berger (singer-songwriter), Brittany Brooks (singer-songwriter, performer, visual artist), Adam Buller /Thunderclap (singer-songwriter, performance artist, multimedia artist), Elizabeth Chitty … Continue reading
St Catharines Shebang – Year 2 December 14-15, 2013 Snapshots from notes by David Vivian
December 14: Plan: to build a program. To build the contract with the audience. Light What is seen, what isn’t seen. Journey behind. We do not need a unifying narrative. Invitation to bring existing pieces. To jam, extrapolate upon. To … Continue reading
video reflections from the Niagara Shebang
Interviews and Excerpts from stage one of The Whole Shebang Niagara from Centre for the Arts, Brock University and Dreamwalker Dance Company. This video is created by Vickie Fagan of Fagan Media Group and features Dreamwalker Dance Company Artistic Director … Continue reading
sifting through
The Niagara and Guelph Shebangs are now complete in this first phase, and I am going through the pleasurable process of sifting through feedback from the artists. There is some beautiful writing and reflection on new perspectives, skills learned and … Continue reading
The Niagara Shebang – Day 3
The Niagara Shebang’s third day opened with an involving discussion of logistics, in which a summary of our planned/unplanned improvisation for the sharing night on Wednesday was the main topic. The planning session involved sticky notes, a jar and some … Continue reading
The Niagara Shebang, Day 2!
The second day of the Niagara Shebang opened with a slew of retrospective reflection, prospective discussion and a series of creatively freeing improvisations. It was filled to the brim with activity. See below for a short photo essay telling us … Continue reading
Synchrony. The challenge for Tuesday.
Or finding those little cells in the heart. Pushing and pulling in time and space. The Heart of the Beat, on Ideas http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ What is it about rhythm, pattern, and synchronization that fascinate us? How do pacemaker cells in a … Continue reading
a passenger on the short bus
for your pleasure, a link to the page where I posted some short notes about John Cameron Mitchell’s film Shortbus, referenced in the last project that Aaron and I collaborated upon. [re. the story of the permeability of new yorkers] … Continue reading
I’m in! (more ways than two)
from yesterdays conversations two articles that came to mind: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/17/stephen-hawking-big-bang-god_n_3103009.html . . . mostly useful for the summary of recent theories about the beginning of things (written perhaps ironically on a platform that is mostly about knowing) and why they … Continue reading
Agree to Disagree
The first session of the Niagara Shebang four day intensive began with a flocking exercise in which the group became aware of the space and the others in the ensemble. Our first attempt at this exercise was filled with hesitation … Continue reading
The Whole Shebang 