Zero for Conduct

I’ve been shooting the fabulous works of Ballet BC for some time now. They’ve crossed the digital rubicon and have begun posting short clips online.

Check this one out from Ignite by Emily Molnar.

I recently cut a new promo for everybody’s favourite experimental dance troupe, the Tomorrow Collective. It’s about Brief Encounters, the regular TC event that throws two artists together to come up with an original performance in two weeks.

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Here’s a video promo I made several months ago for FUTURISTI, Bella Luna’s re-mount of the 1920’s Italian futursit scripts.

It’s a wacky, unpredictable and absurd piece – but don’t let me go on talking, you should watch it yourself…

Last night I had the chance to shoot Theatre Terrific’s production of The Glass Box, a play about sexuality and disability.  It’s a mind-blowing show, mostly because of the honesty of the content, and the fact that its such an unusual and fascinating topic.

VANCOUVER, BC: Theatre Terrific is pleased to present its new work, The Glass Box, a voyeuristic glimpse into the secret lives of people and their passions. Fresh from its debut in Victoria, The Glass Box opens in Vancouver Feb 18 – 28.

The Glass Box follows a 54-year-old wife and mother, a 23-year-old woman living with quadriplegia and a 32-year-old man with Down Syndrome who find themselves trapped in off-beat talk show. They are given the chance to be the iconic figure of their fantasies. The icons answer dangerous questions with hilarious abandon, as Cleopatra unrolls from her carpet, Sophia Loren sways through her famous striptease and Brad Pit lands the big fish.

Just finished a promo trailer for Theatre Conspiracy’s new show, Live From a Bush of Ghosts.

The trick was to capture live video projections, two dj’s, and a dancer.

And FYI, the HD fullscreen settings on Vimeo look AWESOME.

Live from a Bush of Ghosts demo from Flick Harrison.

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I just made a new promo for the Tomorrow Collective’s Brief Encounters show. Looking at the whole montage together, it’s awesome – so many different art forms, so much bizarre mash-up entertainment!

The show puts pairs of artists together for the first time, with two weeks to create a live performance for a 3-night show at the Anza club. I did one with Take 5 and it was the most challenging creative thing I’ve ever done.

Launched in November
2005, Brief Encounters is
an ongoing performance
series designed to push
boundaries and fuse
artistic practices.

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I’m curating a digital shrine at Parade of Lost Souls! Please make a digital shrine and send it in, or text message / twitter during the Parade!

Call for submissions

Digital Shrine at
Parade of the Lost Souls 2008
Oct 25th, 2008,
Grandview Park,
Vancouver, BC
Time: 6.30 PM, procession at 7:00 PM

The Parade of the Lost Souls is a lively commemoration of the cycle of life and death, and of facing fears in order to live life to its fullest. Costumed stilt walkers, jugglers, dancers, skeletal brides, blessed witches, ghastly ghouls, and prancing pixies lead a walking procession through the neighbourhood to honour the dead, wake the living and celebrate.

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I had a fun mission down to Seattle this weekend for Bumbershoot, the giant Seattle music fest, where I saw Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby, and handed them a prototype of the new DVD of “Wreckless Eric’s Tourette!”

I must say, when you see one of your favourite acts perform with a partner you’ve never heard, there is a deep fear that they will ruin everything you love about them.

But Man Oh Man, that DID NOT happen.

Amy actually blew Eric away into the dust once in a while, from whence he would re-emerge to blow her away in turn. When they did “Raising the Bar,” with Amy singing, I actually started feeling high just off the rock’n-out. The two of them leaning back to back, he grinning like a schoolboy in the girls’ locker room, her eyes closed, head at a bizarre angle – it was fucking cool. It looked, from the expressions on their faces, like this was the music they’d been waiting all their lives to play. New. Favourite. Song.

Album out on Stiff Records (yes, Stiff is back!) any moment now.

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Theatre Terrific is a great little company in Vancouver that produces activist shows – both by working with performers and addressing issues that surround disability.

After I made this video for them to promote House of Seikilos, a show that combines the story of Agamemnon with Arthur Miller’s little-known, abandoned, mentally-handicapped son, I was singing the song for weeks. It happens to be the oldest fully-documented piece of music in history.

From the Theatre Terrific site:

The House of Seikilos is a contemporary twisted family voyage that bridges a Greek tragedy with a true modern tale of fateful decision. In Aeschylus’ The Orestaia, Agememnon the king had to choose to sacrifice or save his daughter in order for his army to sail into war. In the modern world, famous playwright Arthur Miller was gaced with a choice ti deny ot accept the disabled son at his birth. Based on these leaders’ dilemmas, The House of Seikilos explores the choice between embracing public honour or choosing the private honour of family.

Here are excerpts of a work-in-progress presentation, May 2, 2008 at the Vancouver Japanese United Church. The House of Seikilos cast are: Nigel Vonas (father), Tallulah Winkelman (mother), Nathan McNamee (child), Marylin Blandford (elder), Greg Labine (son), Cindy Angel (daughter). Auditions will be held in the Fall for the chorus.

The House of Seikilos premieres April 21 – 26 at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre.

Promo video by Flick Harrison

Runs May 31 – Jun 7 2008 at Frederic Wood Theatre.

Check it out at Bella Luna’s website

BELLALUNA’S FUTURISTI :

In the spirit of the turn of the century Italian Futurists, an ensemble of like-minded artists of various mediums with a hunger for excitement and change, Directors Gerald Vanderwoude (UBC) and Susan Bertoia (BellaLuna Productions) have assembled a prodigious ensemble of performers, designers and artists to re-create, pay tribute to and experiment with an art form that had an incredible impact on the shape of art and life as we know it.

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