January 5 - February 2, 2017 2, February - 5 January Rodeo Performance High ’s ’s International Festival ofthe Arts Go down the rabbit hole 31st hprodeo.ca @hprodeo #hprodeo #hprodeo @hprodeo hprodeo.ca

WELCOME

We acknowledge the caretakers of this beautiful Treaty 7 land and Every day during January and in virtually every performance venue extend thanks to our Blackfoot, Stoney/Nakoda and Tsuu’ T’ina around the city, we bring you stories from across the country and family and neighbours for sharing it with us. We are grateful to you. around the world. Over 200 invited artists will offer you these stories; through song, dance and performance – let’s give them an One Yellow Rabbit, following a difficult two years and through the open arm and heart welcome. guidance, love and support of this tremendous Calgary community has landed squarely on its front paws and continues to contribute to After the show, come join us at the Laycraft Lounge and celebrate the health and vitality of Calgary. We are stronger because of you. The High Performance Rodeo – your International Festival of the Arts. 31 years and counting, it is truly yours to celebrate. I have the privilege of meeting artists and seeing work here at home, across the country and around the world and bring that work Come down the Rabbit hole with us. back home to share with my community in Calgary. I look for work that I hope will excite, delight, inform and sometimes even enrage this incredibly adventurous Calgary audience; work that often challenges the norm and offers up a different way of looking at the Ann Connors world. All the work in the 2017 Rodeo did all that for me. And I am Managing Director - One Yellow Rabbit excited to share it all with you. Artistic Producer - High Performance Rodeo

We do know how to celebrate at the Rodeo; and as music is the voice of celebration, we open and close the festival with music to rock your world. We open, partnering with Theatre Calgary, with Songs of Resilience by Toronto’s Queer Songbook Orchestra, who cast a contemporary queer eye on popular music. And to close, One Yellow Rabbit and present dirtsong, a hauntingly beautiful tribute to the land by ’s mesmerizing Black Arm Band. Joining them are multi-instrumentalist and Calgary golden boy, Jonathan Lewis; and our own maestro, David Rhymer - It’s a must see.

I am over the moon excited that the seriously talented Karen Hines has gifted One Yellow Rabbit with her latest edgy play, All The Little Animals I Have Eaten. Lucky us. And lucky you to be the first audience in the country to see this new play. I am certain you won’t be the last.

Photo by Trudie Lee See pages 28-31 for full festival schedule Tickets: 403.294.9494 • Information: 403.294.7411 hprodeo.ca • @hprodeo • #hprodeo • facebook.com/hprodeo 3 ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD CONTENTS 15 OF DIRECTORS

So Blue page 15 Songs of Resilience page 16 Welcome to the 2017 High Performance Rodeo, Calgary’s International We acknowledge our generous sponsors, media partners and public 10-Minute Play Festival page 17 Festival of the Arts! funding bodies. Your support and enthusiasm, have helped the Rodeo 16 evolve into an internationally recognized event. Thank you! 6 Guitars page 18 The Rodeo has become a Canadian classic, famous for tickling us with Brotherhood: The Hip Hopera page 19 its whimsy, challenging us with its depth and embracing us with its Lastly, we have to recognize you, the audience, who support us year inclusivity. Once again, the team has assembled an eclectic, challenging after year. Your passion for the arts not only sustains us, but inspires All The Little Animals I Have Eaten page 21 and inspiring line up. We are honoured to host Calgary’s preeminent our efforts to continue and improve. Time and time again, our visiting ProArts @ Noon page 22 theatre companies, national and international theatre companies, artists comment on the warm Calgary reception that you provide. Trace page 23 dancers, musicians and visual artists. I am confident that you will find Kudos! 18 21 something to inspire and entertain you. As I Lay Dying page 25 We look forward to meeting you at the Rodeo! Countries Shaped Like Stars page 26 As the Board of Directors, we are proud to be part of this evolving Cris Derksen Trio page 27 tradition. We’re continually inspired and humbled by the talent and Peter Kufeldt 25 drive of the creative, administrative, and volunteer teams that present Board Chair Juliet and Romeo page 32 this event every year. My Pregnant Brother/ My Playwright Sister page 33 26 Cathy Jones: Stranger To Hard Work page 34 Why We Are Here! page 35 • www.TWIGS.ca • Portraits In Motion page 36 • Calgary, Every Brilliant Thing page 37 All’s Well That Ends Well page 39 19 Landline: Calgary to St. John’s page 40 FLOWERS #boxtape page 41 By Heart page 42 Winners & Losers page 43 DÉCOR DECLARATION page 44 Mouthpiece page 47 & MORE Through The Gaze Of A Navel page 48 5-Minute Therapy page 49 41

The Plainclothes: Tapping The Audience page 50 Please Note: All information in this brochure is correct at the time of publication. One Yellow Rabbit and The High Performance Rodeo reserve the right to make alterations to the programming and cannot be Proud Supporter of One Yellow Rabbit dirtsong page 51 held accountable for cancellations, substitutions or changes. and the 2017 High Performance Rodeo

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st Annual High Performance Rodeo, On behalf of Calgary Arts Development, welcome to the 31 Calgary’s International Festival of the Arts. This highly anticipated annual event is one of the best parts A WORD FROM of winter, bringing light to the dark of winter with some of the most interesting, inspiring, inciting theatre, music, dance and multidisciplinary art to be found anywhere. OUR FUNDERS We applaud the hard work of Ann Connors, Artistic Producer of the High Performance Rodeo, her team The arts: fundamental to at One Yellow Rabbit, the countless volunteers, and the sponsors and donors who make this festival our sense of belonging

Art and culture are intrinsic elements of our sense of belonging possible. And you, the audiences, who complete the circle. society, to humanity itself. – to a community, a nation, a country, a At Calgary Arts Development, we believe that arts infusing the lives of Calgarians has the power to build our city. The High Performance Rodeo is a shining example of how the arts engage citizens and With their creative visions re in for a wild , their expressions of frst time, get ready–you’ a vital role in helping us hope and their enrich the artistic and creative vibrancyst edition. of Calgary. If this If isyou your have been to the festival in past years, you’ll to better understand and questioning of the status quo, artists play provoke new ways of thinking and transformationsaddress that enrich the complex the lives challenges of their fellow of our Canadians. times. be as excited as I am to take in the 31 They ride. The Council for the Arts is proud to support Rodeo because for us,art is essential in pointing us, Onetogether, Yellow toward Rabbit a and brighter its High future. Performance fundamental to our sense of belonging Sincerely, The arts: Art and culture are intrinsic ele society, to humanity itself. ments of our sense of belonging – to a community, a nation, a country, a

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a vital role in helping us to better underst provoke new ways of thinking and transformationsand and address that enrich the complex the lives challenges of their fellow of our Canadians. times. They Patti Pon

President & CEO The Canada Council for the Arts is proud to support Calgary Arts Development Rodeo because for us, art is essential in pointing us,One together, Yellow toward Rabbit aand brighter its High future. Performance year we are delighted that, through our January 2017 Syrian refugees the opportunity to experienceWelcome this to fest the Arts Further, this initiative , One Yellow Rabbit can offer Canada. ival as they embark on a brighter future in

A MESSAGE FROM MAYOR NENSHI e you to the pleased to welcom Simon Brault, O.C., O.Q am . . On behalf of my City Council colleagues and the citizens of Calgary, I Director and CEO st . Produced 31 Annual High Performance Rodeo, Calgary’s International Festivald of entertaining the Arts audiences has been exciting an 501, 237 – 8th Avenue SE, Calgary, AB T2G 5C3 High Performance Rodeo of the calgaryartsdevelopment.com | 403.264.5330 For over 30 years, the , in cooperation with many of our city’s major arts by One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre nity and has grown to become one organizations, this festival has become a staple in our commu

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To all the organizers and volunteers at the festival, thank you and for more continued vibrant support place toand live. passion for Calgary’s arts community. You make our city an even richer

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Naheed K. Nenshi On behalf of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA), I am pleased to welcome patrons from MAYOR Message from Honourable across the province and beyond to Calgary for the 2017 High Performance Rodeo. Rachel Notley -see cultural events. Throughout January, Having enchanted audiences for more than three decades, this annual winter festival has firmly Premier e performances in venues throughout of Alberta established itself as one of Alberta’s most anticipated, must It i s my pleasure to you can look forward to enjoying extraordinary, provocativ High Performance Rodeo,welcome Calgary's audiences International from Festival near and of far the to Arts. the the city from local and international artists. a collaborative, The evolution of One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo to include partnerships vision with with arts For more than 30 years, Calgary organizations across Calgary is particularly inspiring, as it demonstrates how showcase international perf inclusive, and creative local arts community can work together under a common arts organizations have come together to ormers incredible results. you’re most interested in music, theatre, in a round dance,-up or of multidisciplinary incredible talent art, I know you’ll be delighted b . Whether The Alberta Foundation for the Arts seesy all an Albertans, Alberta where and we a vibrant are pleased arts community to support theinspires High y the vast array of performances creativity and innovation, embraced b The Government of Alberta recognizes the arts and cultural sectorson offer as this year. Performance Rodeo, a working model of that vision. Thank you to all the incredible artists, administrators, and volunteers who work so hard to make the High Performance Rodeo a wonderful essential to our quality of life success every year. culture, it is also an important. ecNot only does art reflect and shape our overall proud to be one of the sponsors of thisonomic event. driver for our pro vince, and we’re Liam Oddie Thank you to the Acting Chair, Board of Directors artists, organizers, volunteers audiences who have helped to make this , sponsors, and enthusiastic in Canada. long-running festival one of the best

Rachel Notley

J anuary 5, 2017

6 7 TheJazzAge HOW TO RODEO AtGlenbow PURCHASING TICKETS RODEO ON A BUDGET 1920s Modernism in Montreal: Online – hprodeo.ca or artscommons.ca On a budget? Doesn’t matter. We want everyone to be able to The Beaver Hall Group take in the High Performance Rodeo. That’s why we offer free and By Phone – the Arts Commons Box Office at 403.294.9494 OCTOBER 22, 2016 – JANUARY 29, 2017 inexpensive events that let you be part of the Rodeo action - without In Person – the Arts Commons Box Office & Patron Services breaking the bank. Check out hprodeo.ca/rodeo-on-a-budget at 225 8th Ave SE (main floor) Calgary’s Museum | glenbow.org Tickets for Portraits In Motion are available exclusively through New! $15 Wednesdays the Theatre Junction GRAND box office at theatrejunction.com or 403.205.2922. Treat yourself, bring a hot date – or your Mom – to live theatre, music or dance for the price of a movie ticket. After all, live Tickets for Juliet and Romeo are available exclusively through the performance is the original 3-D experience! Decidedly Jazz Danceworks box office at decidedlyjazz.com Organized by Presented by Exhibition Patrons Funded by or 403.245.3533 Wednesday nights during the High Performance Rodeo we are offering the best seats to some of our hottest shows for the low Charlie Fischer and Joanne Cuthbertson price of $15. *Some restrictions apply. FESTIVAL PASSES Randolph S. Hewton, Carmencita (detail), 1922 or earlier, oil on canvas, Don’t be disappointed. Purchase your tickets in advance: online, by private collection. Photo: Craig Boyko If you want a good deal, check out the 2017 High Performance phone or in person. (hprodeo.ca/offers) Rodeo Flex Pass. This is how it works: Glenbow_HPR_6.75x4.5313_v6.indd 1 2016-09-28 8:35 AM *The following co-productions are exempt from the $15 Wednesday offer: • Buy a bundle of four tickets for $120. • Juliet and Romeo (DJD) – 20-per cent discount available to • Choose from 17 eligible productions (hprodeo.ca/flexpass). High Performance Rodeo patrons throughout the run Then you have even more choice: • Cathy Jones: Stranger to Hard Work – Tuesday, January 17, only: ATP’s $10 Tuesday pricing in effect for students • Choose one ticket to four productions, four tickets to one production, or any combination that suits you. • Portraits in Motion (Volker Gerling) – Theatre Junction GRAND: discounts available for students and artists under the age of 30. • Buy a Flex Pass as a gift for the adventurous theatre lover in your life. • Passes are now available for purchase online (hprodeo.ca BEAUTIFULYOUNGSTUDENTS or artscommons.ca) by phone and in person. The artists and staff at the High Performance Rodeo open • To redeem your Flex Pass tickets, call the Arts Commons Box their hearts and minds to Calgary’s next generation of cultural Office and speak with one of our helpful staff members: by creators. The Rodeo provides free of charge attendance to the phone at 403.294.9494 or in person at 225 8th Avenue SE shows, weekly artists talks, workshops and gatherings that build (main floor). understanding and relationships between high school students, U of C students and established performance creators from across the country and around the world. #beautifulyoungstudents GROUP TICKETS Find 10 friends or more, gather them up for a night at the POST SHOW DISCUSSIONS AND SPECIAL OFFERS theatre and save 15% on the regular ticket price. Get up close. Talk to the artists. Go behind the scenes. Become more immersed in your Rodeo experience with exclusive High Performance Rodeo special events, offers and post show chats. Hosting the post show chats are One Yellow Rabbit Ensemble’s Andy Curtis, and Jenna Rodgers, Artistic Director of Calgary’s Chromatic Theatre. For a full schedule of post show chats and artist talks go to: hprodeo.ca/offers

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Experience après theatre, avant theatre, parties and High Performance Rodeo camaraderie at the Laycraft Lounge, aka the Rodeo Bar, the official festival hangout. It’s where you schmooze with the artists, chat with the audience, opine with the producers and mingle with the paparazzi. And you won’t need your GPS to find it. The Rodeo Bar is right across from the Big Secret Theatre, on the 2nd floor of the Arts Commons building, overlooking the scenic . It’s connected by Plus 15 to downtown underground parking lots, so you don’t even need to put on your coat. The Laycraft Lounge invites you to introduce yourself to someone, share a review and a drink. Make a new friend. It’s all part of the High Performance Rodeo experience. Hours of operation at: hprodeo.ca/laycraft-lounge

THE VERONICAS January 21 @ 10:00pm Laycraft Lounge FREE 60 minutes hprodeo.ca/the-veronicas

Let’s raise a glass to the talented, the beautiful and the sh**-disturbing Calgary theatre artists we adore. In 30 seconds each, we’ll celebrate every last one of them. Nominate someone today by emailing [email protected] and join us for the very first award show where artists may be nominated for any reason and everybody wins. Design by Chris Cran

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4 Decidedly Jazz Dance Centre – 111 12th Avenue SE 15 Jack Singer Concert Hall* – 205 8th Avenue SE

5 Laycraft Lounge* – 2nd Floor, 225 8th Avenue SE 16 Max Bell Theatre* – 240 9th Avenue SE

6 Lunchbox Theatre – 160, 115 9th Avenue SE 17 Simmons Building – 618 Confluence Way SE 5th Ave SE 7 Martha Cohen Theatre* – 215 8th Avenue SE 18 Studio Bell, National Music Centre – 850 4th Street SE *Located in Arts Commons 6th Ave SE 8 Pumphouse Theatre – 2140 Pumphouse Avenue SW

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“Throughout So Blue, Lecavalier astounds us with the things her body can do—and with the way her intensity manages to communicate itself to us.” – Helen Shaw, TimeOut New York

“While fantastically physical and, at times, disquietingly vulnerable, the work appears to be something which only the inimitable Lecavalier could do justice. This is not a piece she could – or even should – teach to others. Its power is its performer. Which is also what makes it unique…” – Deirdre Kelly, Globe and Mail ANIMATED OBJECTS Photo by André Cornellier

FESTIVAL AD SO BLUE A charismatic mainstay of La La La Human Steps for 18 Cast & Crew years, Lecavalier was an icon for an era, the incarnation Conceived and choreographed by Louise Lecavalier LOUISE LACAVALIER of extreme, spectacular dance that went far beyond conventional limits. Created and performed by Louise Lecavalier, FOU GLORIEUX Frédéric Tavernini So Blue marks Louise Lecavalier’s volcanic emergence as MONTREAL, CANADA a choreographer from an illustrious career as muse and Assistant choreographer and rehearsal director: virtuoso performer. France Bruyère Lecavalier believes blue is the colour of the soul. Lighting design by Alain Lortie January 5 – 7 @ 8:00pm In So Blue she attempts to “allow the body to say Arts. Storytelling. Tradition. Music by Mercan Dede Decidedly Jazz Dance Centre everything it wants to say without censoring it, so … something true and beyond our control emerges.” Additional music by Normand-Pierre Bilodeau, Daft Punk, Meiko Kaji Culture, conversation and performance come alive From $30 In the first part of So Blue Lecavalier performs a perilous at High Performance Rodeo. 60 minutes solo accompanied by the vibrant, swirling soundtrack Remixing producer: Normand-Pierre Bilodeau composed by Turkish-born Montréaler Mercan Dede. Costume design by Yso Imperial supports this voice of diversity in Calgary. louiselecavalier.com In the second half of the show she is joined by Frédéric Tavernini and their raw, shared energy reaches dizzying heights. Acknowledgements Production: Fou glorieux, in co-production with: tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf); Since she founded her company Fou glorieux in 2006, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris); Hellerau (Dresden); National Arts Centre (Ottawa); Lecavalier has explored with other “glorious fools”, artists Festival TransAmériques (Montréal); Residency and preview: Szene Salzburg such as Tedd Robinson, Benoît Lachambre, Crystal Pite Louise Lecavalier is supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and Nigel Charnock. Created in 2012, So Blue is Lecavalier’s the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Montreal Arts Council. first full-length choreography. It has been presented in 15 countries and honoured with numerous awards.

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Photo by Guntar Kravis Photo by Chantal Wall

SONGS OF RESILIENCE Songs of Resilience aims to uplift and empower the Cast & Crew 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL Be prepared to be surprised by the audacious verve The brave, creative souls participating in the 2017 audience, while helping to build connections and a Alanna Stuart: Voice of the talent in this year’s 10-Minute Play Festival. version of the 10-Minute Play Festival are: CO-PRESENTED WITH THEATRE broader understanding amongst community. PRODUCED BY DOWNSTAGE Alex Samaras: Voice This High Performance Rodeo favourite sells out every Chromatic Theatre CALGARY Casting a contemporary queer eye on a century’s worth year, tickling the fancies of people who know how to Jennifer Burford: Violin CALGARY, CANADA Downstage QUEER SONGBOOK ORCHESTRA of popular song, the Queer Songbook Orchestra reveal have a rollicking good time. the LGBTQ backstories and personal narratives that richly Evan Lamberton: Cello Ghost River Theatre Six of Calgary’s most exciting indie theatre companies populate the music of the past several generations. TORONTO, CANADA Lief Mosbaugh: Oboe/English horn/Voice tackle a nigh-impossible task: create an original Major Matt Mason Building a living archive of songs by queer songwriters January 7 @ 7:30pm Micajah Sturgess: French horn 10-minute play in 24 hours, inspired only by a prop and and performers, the ensemble is drawing attention to the Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre Martha Cohen Theatre a line of dialogue! These props and lines are selected by stories and contributions of artists who worked and lived Shaun Brodie: Trumpet/Artistic director January 6 @ 7:30pm the surprise host for the evening, who chooses themes Verb Theatre in the shadows of intolerance. From $35 Thom Gill: Guitar/Voice around one of their unexpected passions. Max Bell Theatre Using personal stories from the community QSO explore Ghislain Aucoin: Piano/Voice 140 minutes Sink into the Martha Cohen Theatre’s new seats and an element of collective memory through songs that From $30 Dan Fortin: Double bass (with intermission) find out what happens next. resonate with them. Their intimate performance reminds 120 minutes us of how songs remain in our memory; and highlights Stefan Schneider: Drums downstage.ca Don’t miss out on this Calgary classic. (with intermission) music as a source of personal pleasure and communal comfort, a private balm and a generational bond. queersongbook.com Formed in 2014, the Queer Songbook Orchestra is an Special Guest Hosts: Katherine 11-piece chamber pop collective of queer and allied Duncan and Mark Tewksbury musicians from Toronto and Montreal that is dedicated to exploring the LGBTQ narratives in popular music. Acknowledgements This performance is made possible through the assistance of the Music Section of the Canada Council for the Arts. In partnership with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.

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“6 Guitars is nothing short of a storytelling masterpiece. It will leave you laughing until you cry…” – Edmonton Sun (5 stars)

“Chase Padget’s accomplishment BROTHERHOOD: in 6 Guitars is so virtuosic it had me on my feet.” THE HIP HOPERA – Georgia Straight

“I have a clear message for anyone who has not seen Brotherhood: The Hip Hopera – Drop everything and go see it now!” – Christopher Hoile, Stage Door

Photos supplied by the artist Photos by Dakota Arsenault

6 GUITARS The multi-award-winning 6 Guitars is a pitch perfect BROTHERHOOD: Brotherhood: The Hip Hopera is a non-stop, high energy, Cast & Crew blend of music, comedy and characters. one-man show using original music and physical theatre to A b current and Sébastien Heins coproduction CO-PRESENTED WITH THE HIP HOPERA tell the parodied story of two brothers living the hip hop life. 6 Guitars became the breakout hit of the 2010 Orlando Creator and performer: Sébastien Heins LUNCHBOX THEATRE International Fringe Theatre Festival where it premiered. b current THEATRE Taking the audience from the 1970s all the way into the CHASE PADGETT, JAY HOPKINS It is among the most successful shows in the Fringe future, this fast-forwarding/rewinding live hip hop show is Director: Karin Randoja Festival circuit across , earning rave reviews TORONTO, CANADA written entirely in rhyme and cleverly crafted song lyrics. Dramaturges: Jodi Essery and Karin Randoja and setting new box office records. PORTLAND, USA Sébastien Heins utilizes hip hop and R & B, rap, soul, funk, Development coach: Adam Lazarus A single performer portrays six different guitar-playing January 11 – 14 @ and gospel to take the audience on an epic story of family characters, each sharing their own style of music: blues, and brotherly love. This special afteRock production will give Set designer: Anahita Dehbonehie January 9 – 28 jazz, rock, classical, folk and country. Each plays songs Various Times audiences the experience of being at a live hip hop show. Lighting designer: Jacynthe Lalonde from their genre while describing how they fell in love @ Various Times West Village Theatre As an acting student at the National Theatre School of with their music and what music means to us all. Cast & Crew Sound designer: Miquelon Rodriguez Lunchbox Theatre Canada, Heins conceived of his first 15-minute iteration Chase Padgett is an actor and musician, playing at Walt Performer and writer: Chase Padgett From $30 of Brotherhood: The Hip Hopera, then called CashMoney Video designer: Jonathan Inksetter Disney World, Universal Studios and the SAK Theatre in & MoneyPussy, chronicling one tragic night in the lives of General $25 Writer and director: Jay Hopkins 65 minutes Assistant lighting designer: Dana Dyal Orlando, Florida. He is artist in residence at the Curious two hip hop superstars. Upon graduation, he was invited Student/Senior $20 Comedy Theatre in Portland, Oregon. bcurrent.ca to the international United Solo festival with his 60-minute Producer: Joseph Recinos Acknowledgements production in New York City, where he won the Best 55 minutes Jay Hopkins has been directing, acting, writing and Producing assistants: Bryn McLeod and Jesse Watts 6 Guitars is proudly performed using instruments and gear from thehiphopera.com Emerging Artist Award. improvising professionally since 1988. In 2004 he and his PRS Guitars, Line 6, and Countryman Associates. sixguitars.com wife Diana formed Jester Theater in Orlando. His play $15 Wedsnedays Brotherhood: The Hip Hopera has been featured in $15 Wedsnedays The Illiad, The Odyssey and All of Greek Mythology in 99 SouloFest, ClownFest, Piece of Mine Festival, and b current’s Minutes or Less is being performed all around the US. rock.paper.sistahz festival. it’s full premiere production is in b current’s afteRock Plays (www.bcurrent.ca).

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ALL THE LITTLE ANIMALS All the Little Animals I Have Eaten is a dark comedy set Karen Hines is the author of six award-winning plays and in a city like your own. a two-time finalist for the Governor General’s Award for I HAVE EATEN Drama. Plays previously seen in Calgary include Recently, a film industry professional told his Citizen Pochsy (OYR) and Drama (ATP) as well as a recent ONE YELLOW RABBIT UCLA screenwriting students that they could only succeed reading of her Crawlspace at Wordfest. She writes for in this world by writing scripts that featured male CALGARY, CANADA Swerve. She is not a vegetarian. 0   72[[[ protagonists. As he reluctantly explained, “The audience doesn’t want to listen to a bunch of women talking about whatever it is women talk about.” Now, inspired by the Cast & Crew Preview performances “Bechdel-Wallace Test,” One Yellow Rabbit Performance January 10* & 11 @ 8:00pm Theatre (along with a bunch of women) endeavours to Written by Karen Hines embrace that notion, and to shake it down. January 12 - 21 Directed by Blake Brooker All the Little Animals I Have Eaten tracks a thesis- @ Various Times addled, sleep-deprived film student as she serves local Big Secret Theatre charcuterie to a well-heeled crowd at an unusually Featuring: modern bistro. Over the course of a harrowing shift, she Denise Clarke 72Ĉ4  .Ǖ Ļ ŇŅņŎ From $40 finds herself parsing some very female conversations about everything from plagiarism and polity to Georgina Beaty 90 minutes narcissism and killer-trolls, to spiritual transcendence / Ǖ  Nadien Chu ! ŇŊ Ŕ ! ņŊħ ŇŅņŎ oyr.org and the Golden Retriever Convention in Scotland. The conversation does turn to shoes … but it’s only when the Ellen Close * / 0Ǖħ 'ǕǕħ $ Ǖ $15 Wednesdays food starts to speak that our hero really starts to listen. * $15 tickets for the Preview performances on January 10 @ 8:00pm [  will be available exclusively at the door of the theatre one hour prior to show time. Based on availability. Guarantee your seat in advance by purchasing a full-price ticket online, in person, or by phone.

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PROARTS @ NOON

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PROARTS @ NOON Lunch hour Rodeo style = a break from the norm. January 18 TRACE Rooted in sensory-triggered memories – Cast & Crew the performers’ own and those offered by the audience – CO-PRESENTED WITH Bring your lunch to the Cathedral Church of the John Rutherford VERTICAL CITY / Trace is an intimate meeting of strangers no more. Directed and co-created by Bruce Barton Redeemer, in the heart of Calgary’s cultural district. A hometown favourite, John Rutherford is a singer/ Performed and co-created by Martin Julien and Michelle PROARTS SOCIETY While you nosh in the beautiful historic venue, THEATRE GARGANTUA Award-winning actors Michelle Polak and Martin Julien songwriter and bluesman extraordinaire. His work is Polak let the dulcet tones of some of Calgary’s finest invite audience members into a shared space to collaborate CALGARY, CANADA laced with the spirit of the blues and fuses a broad CALGARY/TORONTO, musicians make yours a most unforgettable lunch. in creating an always new, always unique story. The Dramaturgy by Pil Hansen range of influences, creating a sound distinctly his own. CANADA audience participates by sharing their memories of Throughout his long and storied career Rutherford met, childhood, desire, joy and loss. They are guided by the Sound design by Lyon Smith, learned from and performed and recorded with many of performers as they glide between the past and the present. interpreted live by Richard Windeyer January 11, 18 & 25 January 11 the great blues legends of our time. @ Noon January 12 – 14 Trace received the NOW Magazine Audience Choice Award Set design by Michael Spence and Bruce Barton Frank Rackow and The Black Sea at the 2014 SummerWorks Festival in Toronto and received @ Various Times Vocal and movement consultation by Jacquie PA Thomas Cathedral Church Frank and the band offer up a spicy mixture of Klezmer, citations for Best Production, Best Direction, and Best January 25 Ensemble. Trace is a Vertical City Performance created of the Redeemer swing, Eastern European, Balkan and traditional Yiddish Royal Canadian Legion #1 Co-produced by Bruce Barton and Yolanda Ferrato through the Theatre Gargantua SideStream Cycle program. tunes, with nods to modern pop and jazz. It’s fun, Allison Lynch FREE danceable, melodic and sometimes exotic. Guaranteed to From $35 Vertical City is an award-winning interdisciplinary group Allison Lynch is a singer, songwriter and actor. She have you smiling and tapping your toes. of artists exploring the relationship between traditional 60 minutes sings jazz, pop, R&B, folk and classical. She is recording 60 minutes theatrical performance and guided audience interaction. proartssociety.ca Frank Rackow – Clarinet, Sax, Vocals an album of originals and classic jazz standards, brucewbarton.com/ Theatre Gargantua is committed to the production of incorporating her violin, piano, guitar and ukulele chops. contemporary, original Canadian work. The SideStream Jonathan Lewis – Violin Lynch has appeared on many of Calgary’s stages and vertical-city Cycle supports our associated artists’ efforts to pursue Greg Rumpel – Accordion has received multiple awards and nominations for her theatregargantua.ca individual and collective projects that explore new modes performing and composing skills. of performance. Robin Tufts – Drums $15 Wednesdays Photo by Dahlia Katz

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“… it’s astounding how many sounds she coaxes out of her cello: bowing, plucking, and tapping the strings, bouncing and rocking against them, tapping the bridge to create a catchy percussive element, and gently hiting the body of the instrument with her hand to make it thump like a heartbeat.” Photo by Alex Cairncross Photo by Red Works Studio – Mary Dickie, musicworks

COUNTRIES SHAPED Part storytelling, part concert, this is a tale of love heard CRIS DERKSEN TRIO 2016 Juno Nominee for Best Instrumental Album Cast & Crew best through a tin-can telephone. LIKE STARS NORTHERN ALBERTA Cris Derksen is an Aboriginal cellist/composer known for Cris Derksen The story of Gwendolyn Magnificent and Bartholomew building layers of sound into captivating performances. Drums: Jesse Baird MI CASA THEATRE Spectacular starts with demanding dragon fruits and and TORONTO, CANADA She criss-crosses genres, cultures, styles and attitudes ends with heartache whispered into the ears of birds with evident pleasure and apparent ease. Her music braids Hoop dancer: Nimkii Osawamick OTTAWA, CANADA and constellations. With spoons, water glasses, whirly- the traditional and contemporary in multiple dimensions, winds and a mandolin, the performers create the sounds January 14 @ 10:00pm weaving her traditional classical training and her Aboriginal and images of a landscape forever altered by regret. ancestry with new school electronics, creating genre- January 13 & 14 @ 7:00pm Royal Canadian Legion #1 defying music. Her music is often described as “eletronic Since 2009, Mi Casa has performed the multi-award- cello” or “classical traditional fusion”. She will perform winning Countries Shaped Like Stars across Canada From $35 Royal Canadian Legion #1 songs from her past albums and new ones yet to be and New Mexico. Their site-adaptive work sells out to recorded and perhaps yet to be conceived. From $30 audiences of all ages in theatres, cafes, bars, church 60 minutes basements, living rooms and festivals. Derksen’s 2010 debut album The Cusp was nominated for a Cast & Crew crisderksen.virb.com/bio 55 minutes Western Canadian Music Award and won the 2011 Canadian Ottawa’s Mi Casa makes performance that straddles Created and performed by Nicolas Di Gaetano and Emily Aboriginal Music Award for Instrumental Album of the Year. micasatheatre.com genres – part theatre, part music, part community hang Pearlman Her musical mentor is Buffy St. Marie. outs, always live. Their six shows have toured to over 40 venues in 17 cities across Canada. Their work has been Text by Emily Pearlman Derksen obtained a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance nominated for 20 Prix Rideau awards and honoured at the University of British Columbia and shared the title Music by Nicolas Di Gaetano with seven. of Principal Cellist with the UBC Symphony Orchestra. She Directed by Patrick Gauthier comes from a line of chiefs from North Tall Cree reserve in northern Alberta on her father’s side and strong Mennonite Costumes and props by Sarah Waghorn homesteaders on her mother’s side.

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Show & Company January 5 - 8 January 9 - 15 Thursday 5 Friday 6 Saturday 7 Sunday 8 Monday 9 Tuesday 10 Wednesday 11 Thursday 12 Friday 13 Saturday 14 Sunday 15 #boxtape – L’équipe Boxtape 10-Minute Play Festival 5-Minute Therapy – The Chop So Blue Songs of Resilience 6 Guitars 6 Guitars 6 Guitars 6 Guitars 6 Guitars 6 Guitars All The Little Animals DJD Dance Centre Max Bell Theatre Martha Cohen Theatre Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox I Have Eaten 6 Guitars – Chase Padgett 8:00 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 PM 12:00 PM 12:00 PM 12:00 PM 12:00 PM 12:00 PM 12:00 PM Big Secret Theatre 10-Minute Play Festival – Downstage & Guests 3:00 PM All The Little Animals I Have Eaten – One Yellow Rabbit So Blue So Blue All The Little Animals ProArts@ Noon 6 Guitars 6 Guitars Countries Shaped Like All’s Well That Ends Well – The Shakespeare Company DJD Dance Centre DJD Dance Centre I Have Eaten (Preview) (Frank Rackow & Lunchbox Lunchbox Stars 8:00 PM with Hit & Myth 8:00 PM Big Secret Theatre The Black Sea) 6:00 PM 6:00 PM #1 Legion 8:00 PM Cathedral Church of the 7:00 PM As I Lay Dying – Theatre Smith-Gilmour Redeemer Trace Countries Shaped Like By Heart – Teatro Nacional D. Maria II 12:00 PM #1 Legion Stars Brotherhood Brotherhood: The Hip Hopera – b current 8:00 PM #1 Legion West Village Theatre Cathy Jones: Stranger To Hard Work – Cathy Jones & Half Apple Brotherhood 7:00 PM 7:30 PM Cris Derksen Trio West Village Theatre Brotherhood 7:30 PM West Village Theatre Brotherhood As I Lay Dying Countries Shaped Like Stars – Mi Casa Theatre 7:30 PM West Village Theatre Pumphouse Theatre DECLARATION – ARTICLE 11 All The Little Animals 7:00 PM 7:30 PM dirtsong – Black Arm Band I Have Eaten (Preview) As I Lay Dying Every Brilliant Thing – Paines Plough & Pentabus Big Secret Theatre Pumphouse Theatre As I Lay Dying Trace Theatre Company 8:00 PM 7:30 PM Pumphouse Theatre #1 Legion 7:30 PM 8:00 PM Juliet and Romeo – Decidedly Jazz Danceworks All The Little Animals Landline: Calgary to St. John’s – XOSecret (Secret Theatre) I Have Eaten Trace All The Little Animals Mouthpiece – Quote Unquote Collective Big Secret Theatre #1 Legion I Have Eaten My Pregnant Brother/My Playwright Sister – creature/creature 8:00 PM 8:00 PM Big Secret Theatre 8:00 PM Portraits In Motion – Volker Gerling & Aurora Nova 2 Week 36 48 All The Little Animals ProArts@Noon – Various Artists I Have Eaten Cris Derksen Trio So Blue – Louise Lacavalier & Fou Glorieux Big Secret Theatre #1 Legion Songs of Resilience – Queer Songbook Orchestra Calgary’s 8:00 PM 10:00 PM The Plainclothes: Tapping The Audience – The Deep Field/ Listeners in Residence Trace #1 Legion The Veronicas International 10:00 PM Through The Gaze Of A Navel – The Chop Trace –Vertical City & Theatre Gargantua Brotherhood Please Note: All information in this brochure is correct at the time of publication. One Yellow Rabbit and Winners & Losers – Theatre Replacement & Neworld Theatre Festival West Village Theatre The High Performance Rodeo reserve the right to Why We Are Here! – Nightswimming 10:00 PM make alterations to the programming and cannot 33 be held accountable for cancellations, substitutions Week 1 Week of the Arts or changes.

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January 16 - 22 #boxtape will be installed January 19 - 28 at various locations downtown along the +15 Skywalk. January 23 - 29

Monday 16 Tuesday 17 Wednesday 18 Thursday 19 Friday 20 Saturday 21 Sunday 22 Monday 23 Tuesday 24 Wednesday 25 Thursday 26 Friday 27 Saturday 28 Sunday 29

6 Guitars 6 Guitars 6 Guitars 6 Guitars 6 Guitars 6 Guitars Cathy Jones 6 Guitars 6 Guitars 6 Guitars 6 Guitars 6 Guitars 6 Guitars Cathy Jones Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox 12:00 PM Lunchbox Martha Cohen Theatre Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox 12:00 PM Lunchbox 12:00 PM Lunchbox 12:00 PM Martha Cohen Theatre 12:00 PM 12:00 PM 12:00 PM 12:00 PM 12:00 PM 2:00 PM 12:00 PM 12:00 PM 12:00 PM 5-Minute Therapy 2:00 PM 6 Guitars Landline 5-Minute Therapy My Pregnant Brother/ ProArts@Noon 6 Guitars Juliet and Romeo Juliet and Romeo Laycraft Lounge Banker’s Hall 12:00 PM Simmons Building 12:00 PM My Playwright Sister (John Rutherford) Lunchbox Lunchbox 6:00 PM DJD Dance Centre DJD Dance Centre Landline ProArts@Noon 1:00 PM/ 1:30 PM/ Mouthpiece West Village Theatre Cathedral Church of the 6:00 PM 2:00 PM 2:00 PM Laycraft Lounge (Allison Lynch) West Village Theatre 2:00 PM Landline Landline 7:30 PM Redeemer Why We Are Here! 1:00 PM/1:30 PM/2:00 PM Cathedral Church of the Laycraft Lounge 2:00 PM 12:00 PM All’s Well That Ends Well Portraits In Motion All’s Well That Ends Well Laycraft Lounge Cathedral Church of the Redeemer 6 Guitars 1:00 PM/ 1:30 PM/ 1:00 PM/ 1:30 PM/ Cathy Jones (Preview) Vertigo Studio Theatre Junction GRAND Vertigo Studio 2:00 PM Martha Cohen Theatre Why We Are Here! 7:00 PM Redeemer 6:00 PM 2:00 PM 2:30 PM All’s Well That Ends Well 12:00 PM Lunchbox 6:00 PM 2:00 PM Through The Gaze Of Vertigo Studio A Navel 7:30 PM Studio Bell, NMC Juliet and Romeo 6:00 PM My Pregnant Brother/ Every Brilliant Thing All’s Well That Ends Well Why We Are Here! 7:00 PM Landline All’s Well That Ends Well 6 Guitars Lunchbox Vertigo Studio 7:00 PM Lunchbox 6:00 PM DJD Dance Centre Every Brilliant Thing My Playwright Sister Pumphouse Theatre Vertigo Studio Lougheed House Laycraft Lounge 2:00 PM 2:30 PM Pumphouse Theatre My Pregnant Brother/ West Village Theatre 6:30 PM 2:30 PM 3:00 PM Cathy Jones 1:00 PM/1:30 PM/ 7:30 PM My Playwright Sister 7:30 PM Mouthpiece All’s Well That Ends Well Cathy Jones West Village Theatre All’s Well That Ends Well Martha Cohen Theatre 2:00 PM West Village Theatre Vertigo Studio Martha Cohen Theatre All The Little Animals 7:30 PM Cathy Jones (Preview) All’s Well That Ends Well Vertigo Studio 7:30 PM 7:00 PM 7:00 PM 2:00 PM 47 I Have Eaten Martha Cohen Theatre Vertigo Studio 7:00 PM All’s Well That Ends Well 8:00 PM Cathy Jones (Preview) 7:30 PM 7:00 PM Juliet and Romeo Vertigo Studio DECLARATION Mouthpiece All’s Well That Ends Well Vertigo Studio 2:30 PM Martha Cohen Theatre Cathy Jones DJD Dance Centre 7:00 PM Calgary Municipal West Village Theatre 7:30 PM Every Brilliant Thing Martha Cohen Theatre Building 7:00 PM 7:00 PM Thursday - Feb 2 Pumphouse Theatre Cathy Jones 7:30 PM 8:00 PM Mouthpiece Every Brilliant Thing 7:30 PM Martha Cohen Theatre DECLARATION West Village Theatre dirtsong Cathy Jones DECLARATION 7:00 PM Pumphouse Theatre 7:30 PM Every Brilliant Thing By Heart Calgary Municipal Martha Cohen Theatre Calgary Municipal Jack Singer Concert Hall 7:30 PM All The Little Animals Pumphouse Theatre Big Secret Theatre Building 7:30 PM Building All’s Well That Ends Well 7:30 PM I Have Eaten All The Little Animals 7:30 PM 8:00 PM 7:00 PM 7:00 PM Vertigo Studio 7:00 PM All The Little Animals Big Secret Theatre I Have Eaten Juliet and Romeo I Have Eaten 8:00 PM All The Little Animals Cathy Jones Big Secret Theatre Big Secret Theatre I Have Eaten Cathy Jones DJD Dance Centre Cathy Jones 44 8:00 PM Martha Cohen Theatre Martha Cohen Theatre 8:00 PM Juliet And Romeo 8:00 PM Big Secret Theatre Martha Cohen Theatre 7:30 PM DJD Dance Centre 8:00 PM 7:30 PM 7:30 By Heart 40 Juliet And Romeo 8:00 PM Juliet and Romeo Juliet and Romeo DJD Dance Centre Juliet and Romeo Big Secret Theatre Juliet and Romeo DJD Dance Centre

8:00 PM Portraits In Motion DJD Dance Centre DJD Dance Centre 4 Week Juliet and Romeo 8:00 PM DJD Dance Centre 8:00 PM Theatre Junction GRAND 8:00 PM 8:00 PM DJD Dance Centre 8:00 PM Portraits In Motion 8:00 PM 8:00 PM Through The Gaze Of Through The Gaze Of Theatre Junction GRAND Portraits In Motion Portraits In Motion 35 A Navel Through The Gaze Of A Navel Lunchbox 8:00 PM 8:00 PM Theatre Junction GRAND Theatre Junction GRAND By Heart Lunchbox 8:00 PM A Navel 8:00 PM Lunchbox 8:00 PM Big Secret Theatre Winners & Losers 8:00 PM Winners & Losers The Veronicas 8:00 PM West Village Theatre West Village Theatre 9:00 PM Every Brilliant Thing Laycraft Lounge 9:00 PM Winners & Losers Week 3 Week Pumphouse Theatre 10:00 PM Winners & Losers West Village Theatre Plainclothes 10:00 PM West Village Theatre 9:00 PM Laycraft Lounge 9:00 PM 9:45 PM

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JULIET AND ROMEO Audiences will delight in the twists and turns in the Cast & Crew MY PREGNANT BROTHER/ Can two different interpretations of the same experience Cast & Crew re-imagining of this passionate and tragic tale. be equally valid? Is it possible to be both right and Artistic director and choreographer: Kimberley Cooper My Pregnant Brother DECIDEDLY JAZZ MY PLAYWRIGHT SISTER wrong at the same time? Two households... DANCEWORKS Adapted and narrated by: Cory Bowles Writing and performance by Johanna Nutter This is dance, this is theatre, this is a jazz concert. CREATURE/CREATURE In 2009 Johanna Nutter’s solo show, My Pregnant CALGARY, CANADA This is Shakespeare’s tale of love and violence Composer and Musical director: Nick Fraser Brother, won the Best in the Fest at the Montreal Fringe Direction and dramaturgy by Jeremy Taylor MONTREAL, CANADA Festival. It become a multi-award winning international re-imagined, re-visited, re-loved Dancers: Sabrina Comanescu (Apprentice), Julia Cosentino, My Playwright Sister hit in English and French, playing across Canada, in Rodney Diverlus, Catherine Hayward, Kaja Irwin, Shayne hyper-realized, sampled, questioned Belgium and France and in London and Edinburgh. Writing and performance by James Diamond and Johnson, Miha Matevzic (Apprentice), Kaleb Tekeste, Dezjuan January 18 – 28 @ 8:00pm recognizable but twisted, January 17 – 19 @ 7:30pm Johanna Nutter Thomas (Apprentice) James Diamond gave permission to his sister to produce DJD Dance Centre current and classic, the play. But when he first saw My Pregnant Brother, he Direction and dramaturgy by Jesse Stong Musicians: Nick Fraser (drums), Rob Clutton (bass), Jeremy West Village Theatre gritty and glorious. was devastated. He needed a more balanced account From $31 Gignoux (violin), Carsten Rubeling (trombone) Passion, pheromones, pick-up lines, From $30 of Nutter’s show about her caretaker identity while he, Set design: Scott Reid her transgender brother, was coming to terms with decidedlyjazz.com I want you 120 minutes his pregnancy. The siblings came together to write the I need you Costumes: Sarah Doucet creaturecreature.org other side of the story. My Playwright Sister illuminates I love you Production manager: Cameron Clowe Diamond’s perspective and adds the sibling dynamic. These violent delights have violent ends. $15 Wednesdays creature/creature: face to face with the other/face à Acknowledgements DJD is one of the only companies worldwide with jazz face à l’autre is a planetary performance unit looking dance and music as its raison d’etre. Performing in its AFA, Canada Council for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development Authority, Suncor and Direct Energy for the strange in the familiar and the familiar in the SPECIAL hometown of Calgary and on tour across Canada and strange. Artistic director Johanna Nutter founded the beyond, DJD has produced more than 60 original works Freestanding Room and is co-curator of the Wildside PRESENTATION since its inception in 1984. The company’s high energy and Festival. James Diamond is a multimedia artist and unique style have moved people to describe their work as painter. They live in Montreal. Photo by Alex Taylor “music for the eyes.”

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“One of Canada’s top comedians, Cathy Jones bares her soul in a seemingly erratic but brilliant performance guaranteed to deliver belly laughs and lots of them...” – Halifax Chronicle Herald WHY WE ARE HERE!

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CATHY JONES: Cathy Jones is one of the funniest women in Canada. WHY WE ARE HERE! Why We Are Here! is a unique and stand-alone experience Cast & Crew that invites audience members to become a choir and sing Canadian cultural icon and comedienne, Cathy Jones, Co-creators: Martin Julien and Brian Quirt STRANGER TO NIGHTSWIMMING in a site that they would not normally be able to sing in. HARD WORK returns to the stage with her third one-woman show, Producer: Leslie Haller Stranger To Hard Work. In this new show she shares her TORONTO, CANADA Why We Are Here! is Nightswimming’s site specific Resident artist: Michelle Thrush unique perspective on select topics from food to money pop-up choir that places audiences at the centre of an CO-PRESENTED WITH Choral directors: Joe Slabe and guest conductors ALBERTA THEATRE PROJECTS and the troublesome people in her life. It’s a funny, thought exhilarating choral adventure — and they’re the singers. provoking look at what Jones has learned in life so far. January 18 @ 6:00pm – Each night explores aspects of Calgary’s history and Studio Bell, landscape, featuring three of the city’s top choral directors A Half Apple Production By the age of 17 Jones had joined the Newfoundland Acknowledgements and acclaimed artist, Michelle Thrush, in an invigorating Travelling Theatre Company with her brother Andy for a National Music Centre NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA theatrical event about right here and right now. Canada Council for the Arts summer of touring the province. She is Newfoundland’s January 20 @ 6:00pm – Ontario Arts Council comic gift to the rest of Canada, regularly skewering the Each night the audience becomes a choir and gains new Cathedral Church of Toronto Arts Council establishment, politicians and sacred cows. She is the perspectives on the city through theatrical surprises based January 17 – 28 youngest of a multi-talented family—brother Andy is an The Redeemer on the music, the venue and events of the day. The George Cedric Metalf Foundation @ Various Times actor and writer, and another brother, Mike, is a noted January 22 @ 3:00pm – Nightswimming is an award-winning Toronto-based filmmaker. Martha Cohen Theatre Lougheed House dramaturgical theatre company with a national mandate focused on research, creation and performance through From $25 $15 commissioning and developing new Canadian plays, Cast & Crew 180 minutes musical works and dance. Join us for one, two or all three 80 minutes Written and performed by Cathy Jones evenings as we explore Calgary through song. (with intermission) WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE Directed by Ann-Marie Kerr whywearehere.org nightswimmingtheatre.com

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“In Volker Gerling’s tiny fipbooks, great “heart-wrenching, things emerge from hilarious...possibly one small candid portraits of the funniest plays you’ll EVERY BRILLIANT of strangers that ofer ever see, full stop.” fascinating glimpses into the human soul.” ★★★★ – The Guardian THING – Broadway Baby

PORTRAITS IN MOTION Volker Gerling is a passionate creator of flip books and an EVERY BRILLIANT You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s Theatre – the nation’s leading rural touring company. intrepid traveller. “done something stupid”. She finds it hard to be happy. Cast & Crew Co-Presented with Theatre THING So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant Since 2003 he has walked over 3,500 kiolometres about the world. Everything worth living for. Writer: Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe Junction throughout Germany, inviting people to visit his travelling by Duncan Macmillan with Director: George Perrin VOLKER GERLING Flipbook “thumb cinema” exhibition and creating Jonny Donahoe 1. Ice Cream flipbook portraits of some of the people he meets along 2. Kung Fu Movies Cast: Jonny Donahoe A PAINES PLOUGH AND IN ASSOCIATION WITH the way. 3. Burning Things PENTABUS THEATRE Acknowledgements AURORA NOVA In the show, Portraits in Motion, Gerling shows the 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose COMPANY PRODUCTION Every Brilliant Thing is supported by Anne McMeehan and Jim Roberts GERMANY audience a selection of his favourite portraits by holding Tickets for Portraits In Motion are available exclusively 5. Construction cranes and was developed with the support of nabokov and the Jersey Arts Trust. each one under a video camera so that its moving through the Theatre Junction GRAND box office at United Kingdom 6. Me images are projected onto a large screen. In a series theatrejunction.com or 403.205.2922 of enchanting and precious moments the people he You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read it because

photographed come to life on screen as he shares January 17 – 21 @ Various she’s corrected your spelling. January 18 – 21 @ the heart-warming and moving stories behind each Times Soon, the list will take on a life of its own. Various Times encounter. Pumphouse Theatre A new play by award-winning playwright Duncan Winner of the Total Theatre Award for Innovation and From $30 Macmillan about depression and the lengths we will go to Theatre Junction GRAND Playing With Form, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2015. for those we love. From $20 60 minutes Every Brilliant Thing received critical and audience acclaim CONTEMPORARY LIVE ART painesplough.com at the 2014–2016 Edinburgh Festival, subsequent tour and 75 minutes in New York during a 16-week Off-Broadway run. pentabus.co.uk Co-produced by Paines Plough, the UK’s leading new writing touring company at the forefront of finding bold new writing, directing and acting talent with Pentabus

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______THE ______

DROWNING

GIRLS Canadian bad boys take on Shakespeare. ______ALL’S WELL THAT By Beth Graham, ENDS WELL Provocative Canadian playwright Brad Fraser, and Charlie Tomlinson & Daniela Vlaskalic charismatic theatre director Peter Hinton, join forces to ______THE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY bring Shakespeare’s lesser-known Romantic Tragi- Comedy to centre stage. Blake Brooker WITH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF HIT & MYTH PRODUCTIONS All’s Well That Ends Well is a romantic tale about Helena, Directed by in love with the unrequiting Bertram and the great denise clarke CALGARY, CANADA lengths she’ll go to win his affection. Known as one of Shakespeare’s darker comedies, All’s Well That Ends Well “An intense water wonderland that Acknowledgements will truly take your breath away.” is the fusion of folk and fairy tale woven through the staged by MacLeod Construction, Stonebridge Crafted Homes, RBC Emerging Artist -twisitheatreblog.com January 19 – 28 battlefield of love, betrayal and seduction. Program, Calgary Arts Development Authority, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, @ Various Times Calgary Foundation, The City of Calgary, Alberta Lottery Fund The Shakespeare Company is Calgary’s lean and mean The Studio at Vertigo Theatre classical theatre company, highlighting the best of the Bard in all his comedy, tragedy and bawdiness. Tickets at From $35 start Cast & Crew vertigotheatre.com 120 minutes 403.221.3708 $ (with intermission) Written by William Shakespeare 29 Adapted by Brad Fraser MAY 13-JUNE 11 shakespearecompany.com 115-9th Avenue SE Directed by Peter Hinton (at the base of the ) $15 Wednesdays

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“… the show was amazing! I really loved it. Such a pure and simple idea, and interactive in all the ways I love while shunning all the ways that bore me or make me feel old…. A zillion congrats!” – Guy Madden, LANDLINE : CALGARY Canadian flm icon TO ST. JOHN’S

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LANDLINE : LANDLINE offers a curious exposure to the feeling of being We are artists who work hard to develop projects that #BOXTAPE A sticky situation… A social investigation…Architecture as alone together. speak both to us and others about the beauty found in performance…Getting caught…Collaborative authorship

CALGARY TO ST. JOHN’S a shared experience. We do not merely want audiences L’ÉQUIPE BOXTAPE LANDLINE is a performance that takes place in two places Using a sh**load of clear packing tape and a shared to engage; rather, with thoughtful, playful intervention, XOSECRET at once. Using smartphones, participants are invited to sense of labour, hospitality and dance – we invite the we aim to give people a feeling they are at the heart of FROM WHWRE, USA play the dual role of audience and performer in an audio- public to join as we build and dance a sculpture with tape (SECRET THEATRE) the experience. guided, experiential walking tour of the city. Each audience that binds together the social fabric of the performance HALIFAX, CANADA member is partnered with a fellow participant in another environment. city. They converse in real time via text message. January 19 - 28 @ Cast & Crew #boxtape is an event that lies between performance As the experience unfolds, individuals are prompted to Noon – 6:00 PM and sculpture. It bridges dance and visual art (sculpture January 24 – 28 Created by Adrienne Wong and Dustin Harvey share stories, memories and secrets. The project uses the Various Locations in the in particular) to play at the fringes of performance @ Various Times urban landscape as a backdrop for the relationship forming Audio engineer: Shawn Bisson art. #boxtape is a kind of a Stigmergy, the principle of between two strangers. +15 Skywalk which is that the trace left in the environment by an Music composition: Eling Lien and Brian Riley Laycraft Lounge action stimulates the performance of a next action, by Important show requirements: FREE $15 Map artwork: Colleen MacIsaac the same or a different agent. In that way, subsequent • Carry a cellphone with a texting plan and ensure your actions tend to reinforce and build on each other, leading Acknowledgements St. John’s: Resource Centre For The Arts Theatre Company Ptrosz.wordpress.com 55 minutes battery is fully charged. Landline uses SMS, to the spontaneous emergence of coherent, apparently The CALQ and the CAC, Main & Station. regular rates apply. Audience Participation systematic activity – box tape. xosecret.org Acknowledgements • Dress appropriately to walk outside for 40 to 50 minutes. LANDLINE was created with support from Neworld Theatre Cast & Crew Audience Participation (Vancouver) and Secret Theatre (Halifax); and developed in • Arrive 15 minutes before your departure time. part through The Collaborations, an initiative of Canada’s Developed in collaboration with: Peter Trosztmer, Jeremy National Arts Centre English Theatre. Gordaneer, Thea Patterson, Elinor Feuter, Sonya Stefan, $15 Wednesdays • Space is limited. Make your reservation early to avoid Lois Brown, Nathan Yaffe, Sigrid Patterson, Chi Long, disappointment. Winnie Ho, Emmalie Ruest, Karen Fennell, le Robin Pineda and the public

40 See pages 28-31 for full festival schedule Tickets: 403.294.9494 • Information: 403.294.7411 hprodeo.ca • @hprodeo • #hprodeo • facebook.com/hprodeo See pages 28-31 for full festival schedule Tickets: 403.294.9494 • Information: 403.294.7411 hprodeo.ca • @hprodeo • #hprodeo • facebook.com/hprodeo 41 “… Sly, uterly successful … scores because of the ambiguities it “A performance with the appearance of a brotherly simplicity, a cultivates. What starts as a sly and ofen funny game of diferences WINNERS short performance, but so deep, so intelligent and so magnifcent ends up as a nuanced and unsetling show.” – Village Voice BY HEART that we come out of it profoundly moved. Tiago Rodrigues is a poet, a seer, an artist that drives us, without any safety net, through the & LOSERS slippery paths of memory and poetry, of the meaning of literature and death, of theatre.” – Armelle Héliot, Le Figaro Photo by Magda Bizarro Photo by Simon Hayter

BY HEART By Heart is about the importance of transmission, of the Cast & Crew WINNERS & LOSERS As each of the characters seeks to defeat the other, the Cast & Crew invisible smuggling of words and ideas that only keeping a debate becomes highly personal, as they dissect each Written and performed by Tiago Rodrigues Written and performed by Marcus Youssef & James Long TEATRO NACIONAL text in your memory can provide. PRODUCED BY THEATRE other’s individual, familial and class histories. Text with fragments and quotes by William Shakespeare, Director: Chris Abraham D. MARIA II In By Heart, Portuguese playwright and actor Tiago REPLACEMENT AND Winners and Losers is a staged conversation that embraces Ray Bradbury, George Steiner, Joseph Brodsky, among others PORTUGAL Rodrigues teaches a poem to 10 people in front of NEWORLD THEATRE IN the ruthless logic of capitalism and tests its impact on our Lighting designer: Jonathan Ryder the audience. These 10 people have never seen the Set, props and costume by Magda Bizarro closest personal relationships as well as our most intimate ASSOCIATION WITH Stage manager and production manager: Elia Kirby performance and they have no idea which text they will be experiences of self. English translation by Tiago Rodrigues, revised by Joana CROW’S THEATRE learning by heart. While teaching them, Rodrigues unfolds Frazão Theatre artists and long-time friends Marcus Youssef and Acknowledgements January 24 - 26 @ 8:00pm a mix of stories of his soon-to-be-blind grandmother VANCOUVER, CANADA James Long sit at a table and play a game they made up, and stories of writers and characters from books that are, Executive production on the original creation by Magda Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Big Secret Theatre called winners and losers. In it, they name people, places Council and the City of Vancouver. somehow, connected to the old lady and himself. Bizarro, Rita Mendes or things — Tom Cruise, microwave ovens, their fathers, From $40 By Heart is about a theatre that recognizes itself as Co-producers: O Espaço do Tempo, Maria Matos Teatro January 25 – 28 @ 9:00pm rainforests, druids, etc. — and debate whether these things 85 minutes that place of transmission of what you can’t measure in Municipal are winners or losers. And because one of these men is metres, euros or bytes. It‘s about the safe hiding place West Village Theatre the product of economic privilege and the other not, the www.teatro-dmaria.pt that forbidden texts have always found in our brains and From $40 competition very quickly begins to cost. our hearts, as a guarantee of civilization even in the most Theatre Replacement is an ongoing collaboration between Audience Participation barbaric and desolate times. 90 minutes James Long and Maiko Bae Yamamoto that uses extended $15 Wednesdays processes resulting in theatrical experiences that are Acknowledgements theatrereplacement.org authentic, immediate and hopeful. A production of Teatro Nacional D. Maria II after an original creation by neworldtheatre.com the company Mundo Perfeito Neworld Theatre creates, produces and tours new plays Photo by Simon Hayter Performance created with the financial support by Governo de Portugal $15 Wednesdays and performance events. We ask artists and audiences | DGArtes to embrace work that challenges assumptions about the nature of theatre and its function in the world.

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DECLARATION

DECLARATION DECLARATION is an Indigenous creation lab, engaging Cast & Crew place and people in performative offerings. ARTICLE 11 Produced and created by Tara Beagan and Andy Moro ARTICLE 11 invites admired artists to collaborate and create TURTLE ISLAND a guided art jam, celebrating our vast range of talents Acknowledgements coming together through vigorous art practice and We offer thanks to the peoples of this land. The Siksika, the January 25 – 27 profound love of land. An offering in three parts: frank artist Piikuni, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina. The Stoney Nakoda First Nations and the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III. We acknowledge talks in DECLARE; open creation lab with work during the that the traditional Blackfoot name of this place is “Mohkinstsis” DECLARE sessions @ Noon day; and a fresh and raw performance in the evening. which we now call the City of Calgary. Open Creation Lab @ All Day We invite you to visit, return and soak in this Indigenous (Until 5:30pm) art party on land long cared for by Blackfoot, Stoney/ Nakoda and Tsuu’Tina nations. Performances @ 7:00pm ARTICLE 11 is an Indigenious arts activist creation and Calgary Municipal Building production company founded in 2013 by Tara Beagan (Ntlaka’pamux) and Andy Moro (Omuskego Cree.) Pay What You Want It is named for the eleventh article in the United article11.ca Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples(13/09/2007): “Indigenous peoples have the right to practise and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs. This includes the right to maintain, protect and develop the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures, such as archaeological and historical sites, artifacts, designs, ceremonies, technologies and visual and performing arts and literature.” Photo of Santee Smith

44 See pages 28-31 for full festival schedule Tickets: 403.294.9494 • Information: 403.294.7411 hprodeo.ca • @hprodeo • #hprodeo • facebook.com/hprodeo “Mouthpiece a Masterpiece. Provocative and relevant, funny and horrifying, universal yet highly individualized, and deals beautifully with ugly MOUTHPIECE issues. One of the strongest performances I’ve seen in Otawa.” – New Otawa Critics (Ian Hufman)

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MOUTHPIECE Interweaving a cappella harmony, dissonance, text and Cast & Crew physicality – Mouthpiece is a harrowing, humorous and Created and performed by Norah Sadava and Amy QUOTE UNQUOTE heart-wrenching journey into the female psyche. Nostbakken COLLECTIVE Mouthpiece follows one woman for one day as she tries Directed by Amy Nostbakken TORONTO, CANADA to find her voice. The push and the pull, the past and the Movement direction and dramaturgy by Orian Michaeli present, the progress and the regression: this is the inner Lighting design by Andre Du Toit conflict that exists within a modern woman’s head. Sound design by James Bunton January 26 – 29 @ Mouthpiece was nominated for six Dora Mavor Moore All music is original composition by Amy Nostbakken Various Times Awards and was the winner of Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble and Outstanding Sound Design/Composition. Acknowledgements West Village Theatre Mouthpiece made its world premiere at the Theatre Canada Council for the Arts Centre in Toronto in April 2015 and is touring across Canada From $30 throughout 2016 and 2017. 60 minutes Quote Unquote Collective is a Toronto-based multi- disciplinary performance company that aims to work quoteunquotecollective.com outside the boundaries of tradition and expectation. Engaging with urgent social and political themes, the company is founded on the firm belief that art and performance are tools to provoke conversation and change.

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See pages 28-31 for full festival schedule Tickets: 403.294.9494 • Information: 403.294.7411 hprodeo.ca • @hprodeo • #hprodeo • facebook.com/hprodeo 47 5-MINUTE THERAPY Do you have 5 minutes? If so, you need not despair about love, your career trajectory, or if God has forsaken you. THE CHOP Screw those expensive hour-long therapy sessions. VANCOUVER, CANADA Meet with a self-proclaimed specialist who can help you find the light in the darkest of times. Professional advice giver, Emelia Symington Fedy, will tell you what you need to hear – whether you like it or not – by the end January 27 @ of an egg timer. Bankers Hall Come on in. It’s a cold world out there. Emelia brings the January 28 @ egg timer; you bring the questions. Simmons Building Cast & Crew Beginning at Noon in Performed by Emelia Symington Fedy and 5-minute intervals Christie Watson Photo by Itai Erdal FREE “Ultimately Through the Gaze of a thechoptheatre.com Navel works for both the non-yoga enthusiast and its fans by creating Audience Participation THROUGH THE a near perfect satirical balance, 5-MINUTE a comedic yin-yang as it were, of GAZE OF A NAVEL genuine respect and gentle derision.” THERAPY – Mark Robins, Vancouver Presents

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THROUGH THE GAZE More than a mere a kiss-and-tell of a person’s life-long Symington Fedy has been part of making over 20 new self-help escapades, Emelia Symington Fredy examines works with select creation-based companies. She’s OF A NAVEL the line between seeking out enlightenment and certified in Classical Ashtanga and AcroYoga, hosts her THE CHOP destructive navel-gazing. own daily radio show on Roundhouse Radio 98.3 and is the creator of the wildly popular tryingtobegood.com Emelia Symington Fedy has been obsessed with VANCOUVER, CANADA making herself better since she was a kid. From Cast & Crew swimming with cosmic dolphins to crystal bowl Performed by Emelia Symington Fedy vibrational healing to vaginal weightlifting classes, with music by Christie Watson January 26 – 29 @ Symington Fedy has done it all. In Through the Gaze of Various Times a Navel, she asks the big questions while guiding you Created by Emelia Symington Fedy and through a physical journey suitable for people of all Anita Rochon (The Chop) Lunchbox Theatre levels of experience. Her irreverence is hilarious but the Directed by Anita Rochon darkness she encounters is real. From $35 Original Music and technical direction by A class/show that you can participate in or observe, Christie Watson 60 minutes Through the Gaze of a Navel premiered in Vancouver thechoptheatre.com to a sold-out run and has since toured yoga studios, festivals and theatres across Canada. Acknowledgements Audience Participation Through the Gaze of a Navel was created with the support of Boca del Lupo’s After a decade of producing new, award-winning works Micro Performance Series. The Chop is supported by Canada Council for the *Wear comfy clothes. for international audiences, The Chop is going back to Arts, BC Arts Council and the City of Vancouver their roots and re-visiting the form of the solo show with * Foul language is used. the irreverent and hilarious Symington Fedy centre stage.

48 See pages 28-31 for full festival schedule Tickets: 403.294.9494 • Information: 403.294.7411 hprodeo.ca • @hprodeo • #hprodeo • facebook.com/hprodeo “An uplifing experience that said more about black and white solidarity than a million parliamentary speeches.” – The West Australian

THE PLAINCLOTHES: TAPPING THE AUDIENCE dirtsong

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THE PLAINCLOTHES: Is that person next to you wearing a wire? Are they Cast & Crew dirtsong A one-of-a-kind performance that speaks of endurance, Cast & Crew bugged? Could they be a plainclothes agent? challenge, unity and the triumph of the spirit. Original text: Alexis Wright TAPPING THE AUDIENCE Co-produced by: Col Cseke, Laurel Green and CO-PRESENTED WITH ARTS Returning as the High Performance Rodeo’s official Journey through Australia’s cultural heartland in a Anton de Groot Original concept: Steven Richardson DEEP FIELD LISTENERS Listeners in Residence, The Deep Field is going COMMONS PRESENTS theatrical, visually sumptuous, multimedia performance. Black Arm Band artistic director: Emma Donovan IN RESIDENCE undercover. With you from your front door to your BD&P WORLD MUSIC This collective of musicians, composers, dancers and theatre seat, to the bar and back home again – we’re filmmakers tell deeply felt stories with stunning imagery, dirtsong artistic director: Fred Leone CALGARY, CANADA listening in on your night out. BLACK ARM BAND & GUESTS traditional and contemporary song, performed in 11 Musical director: Michael Meagher Indigenous languages with traditional instruments Blending on-site reporting with the up-close sounds of Arrangements and orchestrations: Andrea Keller, Eugene Ball AUSTRALIA including the didgeridoo. wild theatre, The Deep Field will capture, boost and remix and Julien Wilson with Black Arm Band Listening Party the Rodeo audience. Entertaining as it educates, their performance dirtsong Lighting designer: Michelle Preshaw raises awareness of the importance, resonance and January 28 @ 9:45pm Come hear what we overhear. Production management: Daniel Gosling February 2 @ 7:30pm contribution that Aboriginal traditions have on global Stage management: Kay Brockelsby Laycraft Lounge The Deep Field is a non-fiction storytelling company Jack Singer Concert Hall culture, as well as the issues that indigenous people face that uncovers remarkable stories hiding in plain sight. worldwide. Audio engineer: Patrick Murray FREE Listeners in Residence was at the 2016 HPR with You Are From $29 Black Arm Band is an Australian Aboriginal music Screen visuals: Natasha Gadd, Rhys Graham, Daybreak Films Here Too: Recalling The Whaler and The Deep Field filled 45 minutes and theatre collective, celebrating over 40,000 years Arts Commons +15’s with the soundscape Sky Sounds. 85 minutes Producer: Sarah Greentree of Indigenous music, culture and language. Using thedeepfieldpodcast.com Subscribe on iTunes. blackarmband.com.au Cast (singers): Fred Leone, Troy Brady, Deline Briscoe/Ursula sumptuous visual projections, costumes, and text, this Yovich, Shellie Morris, Nicole Lampton & featuring Michelle St. John supergroup of musicians, composers, directors and film makers create contemporary work that resonates with Band: Tjupurru Yidaki (Didjeridoo), Michael Meagher (Bass), Rory McDougall (Drums), David Rhymer (Piano), Jonathan Lewis the triumph of the spirit. (Violin), Oliver Miguel (Saxophone). Acknowledgements

Canada Council for the Arts

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We couldn’t have thrived as we have – nay – we couldn’t have Special Thanks Ryan Kokott Cherie Ratte survived for this long without the dedication of our multi-faceted, Michelle Balic Ben Leavitt Tamara Raymond PROVOCATEUR multi-talented team of volunteers, sponsors and Friends of the High Performance Rodeo. Karen Ball Jay MacGillivray Rand Roeric Arts Commons First Calgary Dr. Jackie Korol RBC Foundation Structured Francine Béland Sharon Modlin Ian Russell Financial Family Dentist Abstraction We are humbled at the enthusiasm of our superlative volunteers. Diane Blackwell Michael Morrison Blaine Schlechter We profoundly appreciate your support and hard work. BENEFACTEUR We offer a deep bow of gratitude to the uber generousity Matt Boyer Laura Nanni Emily Schmidt our sponsors and Friends of One Yellow Rabbit and the High Joshua Dalledonne Leonard Nooy Michael Tan Sherritt Greene Immigration Law Taylor Conway: Real Estate & Injury Law Performance Rodeo. Richard Einarson Nicole Olson Bradley Walker Grant-Suttie CONNOISSEUR You are at the top of the list among our many blessings. Ron Goldberger Janet Webb Jean Perron Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Natashia Haynes Lakin Wecker Anonymous James Gottselig Jim and Lesley Laycraft Dr. Lynne Murfin Kent Pigott Chris Davis Law Kim Green Microsoft Osten-Victor Fund at the Wes Jenkins Darren Wurzer Gregory J Forrest Neil and Iris Kathol John Murrell Calgary Foundation Professional Corporation Nadine Krenosky Margaret & Michael The Pat & Tony Adams Goethe-Institut Peter Kufeldt Perlette Freedom Trust

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