The UBCO Interdisciplinary Performance Program Presents

"Dream Migrations"

A high-spirited balancing act between our need for community and our desire for freedom, our search for identity and our capacity for transformation, our predilection for certainty and our attraction to the unknown.

April 8, 8:00pm, Kelowna Art Gallery

April 9 and April 10, 8:00pm, UBCO - UNC Ballroom
Free Entry to the CAST PARTY with purchase of closing night ticket.

Tickets: $5 Minimum Donation
Tickets Sold At The Door
Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to UBCO SaveJapan

Ker Wells: Devised Theatre Artist in Residence at UBC

Acclaimed Canadian performer, Ker Wells, will be on the UBC Okanagan campus for a two-week residency. From February 23^rd to March 8^th, he will work intensively with students in the Interdisciplinary Performance program and teach a performance workshop.

He will also give a public talk sponsored by the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies and hosted by the Kelowna Art Gallery on Saturday, February 26^th at 7:30 PM. During his talk, Wells will screen audiovisual material documenting his artistic process and discuss his work in the context of recent Canadian theatrical history.

Ker Wells is a founding member of Primus Theatre and Number Eleven Theatre, two highly influential theatre companies credited for having pioneered what is now known as devised theatre in Canada. While on campus, Wells will introduce members of the UBC community to an artistic approach rooted in techniques of actor training and actor based creation developed by experimental director Eugenio Barba, founder of the Odin Teatret. Wells' work as a performer, director and educator is frequently discussed in academic publications and he was guest co-editor of a special issue of Canadian Theatre Review on collective creation, collaboration and devising. Wells teaches at the National Theatre School of Canada, from which he graduated, as well as at the Humber College School of Performing Arts in Toronto and The Contemporary Opera Lab at the University of Manitoba. In May 2011, Wells will premiere his new solo performance, Swimmer (68), in Toronto. In December of this year, EXILIO: My Life as Bolaño/EXILE: Mi Vida Como Bolano, a three-way collaboration with Mexican and U.S. artists, in which Wells performs and directs, will premiere in at HERE Arts in New York City.

The residency is sponsored by the Department of Creative Studies at UBC. For more information about Ker Wells or the residency, contact Dr. Virginie Magnat at Virginie.magnat@ubc.ca or 250-807- 8411.

Sponsored by Minds and Music and the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies

Love Songs

Featuring Shannon Mercer from the Queen of Puddings Music Theatre

Date: Tuesday, Feb. 8
Time: 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Location: University Centre ballroom, room UNC200

Inside Out:
Confessions of a Student Body

Performances:
Friday, April 9 at 8 pm
Saturday, April 10 at 2 pm and 8 pm
Sunday, April 11 at 8 pm

Ballroom, University Centre
UBC Okanagan - 3333 University Way

Students: $5
Non-Students: $10

Tickets available from
Linda Falkingham 250-807-9761
or Denise Kenney 250-807-9632

PHOBOPHILIA 
2boys.tv
Montréal, Québec, CANADA
transmedia performance - 45 minutes
 
UBC-Okanagan
Mon Oct 19:  6pm and 8pm
Tues Oct 20: 4pm, 6pm and 8pm

Department of Creative Studies presents Just Looking, a
one-of-a-kind performance that plays with ideas of commodification,
material culture and the origins of urban myth.

March 26, 27 and 28 at 8 p.m.
UBC Okanagan Student Services Centre theatre (SSC 026)

Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for non-students and can
be purchased at the door. There will be an opening night reception.

Just Looking contains some mature content but is without nudity or
explicit violence.

In the upcoming UBC Okanagan
production Just Looking, Scott Mendonca, left, plays a mall-going man and Daniel Oledski a boy lost in the mall.

Created by Neil Cadger, associate professor with UBC Okanagan's Performance program, in collaboration with 23 of his students, Just Looking was developed entirely from the ground up, based on research done in several Okanagan malls. "It's a physical theatre performance exploring the individual and the group, as well as public and private space," says Cadger.

This Neck of the Woods Offers Unique
Performance at UBC Okanagan

The first performance to be staged in UBC Okanagan’s recently remodeled theatre promises to be very different from the kind of performances based on written drama many theatre fans are used to.

This Neck of the Woods, created by Neil Cadger, Associate Professor of Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan, in collaboration with students and alumni, will take to the stage from Oct. 30 to Nov. 3. 

"It's not a play. It's a performance and we're still in the process of creating it," Cadger points out. "We’re using a combination of media elements, plenty of projected imagery, live and recorded sound, speech, song, dance -- a broad palette of live-art ingredients."

Click here to watch 5:36 - 21mb Quicktime H263 movie