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FADO E-LIST (January 2018)The new year is upon us and we have lots of exciting FADO news to tell you. In fact there are so many upcoming FADO events in January, February and March that we decided to make the January 2018 e-bulletin ALL FADO EVENTS. Just this once. Happy New Year! x, fado
INDEX 1. FADO Performance Art Centre's MONOMYTHS perpetual calendar is now available! LIMITED EDITION / Order yours today! 2. FADO Performance Art Centre presents Performance Club 2 Valley of the Dolls with Keith Cole Dates: January 30–February 27, 2018 (5 sessions) 3. FADO Performance Art Centre presents LOST in TRANS by Dickie Beau Presented at The Theatre Centre in the context of Progress Dates: February 8–10, 2018 (3 performances) 4. FADO Performance Art Centre presents the Long Table with Lois Weaver Presented at The Theatre Centre in collaboration with Progress and Rhubarb Date: February 9, 2018 (1 performance) 5. FADO Performance Art Centre presents What Tammy Needs to Know... by Lois Weaver Presented at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in the context of the Rhubarb Festival Date: February 17, 2018 (1 performance) 6. FADO Performance Art Centre presents Performance Salon 2 x for staying here with us now by Sherri Hay Dates: February 16 & 24, 2018 (2 performances)
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1. FADO Performance Art Centre's MONOMYTHS perpetual calendar is now available! LIMITED EDITION / Order yours today!
Take a sneak peak inside the calendar!
MONOMYTHS invited a diverse collection of artists, scholars and activists to revise Joseph Campbell's conception of the hero's journey through performance art, lectures, workshops and other offerings. The MONOMYTHS perception of the universal journey dispels the notion of the lone patriarchal figure on a conquest to vanquish his demons–both inner and outer–in consideration of community, collectivity and collaboration. This perpetual calendar, beautifully designed by Lisa Kiss Design, documents the year-long MONOMYTHS journey.
Playing on the cyclical nature of the universal story, and the interconnectedness of the MONOMYTHS performance series, this 14-month perpetual calendar contains a main image and a detail from each project in the series taken by FADO photographer Henry Chan; as well as biographical information about each artist and a short description of each work.
LIMITED EDITION of 250 Photography by Henry Chan and Connie Tsang Designed by Lisa Kiss Design Number of pages: 17 Overall dimensions: 11 x 14 inches
COST: $25.00 (Canadian) plus shipping (to be determined at purchase) Methods of payment: Cheque, E-transfer, Paypal
Shipping: Toronto: $10 / tracking included Canada (NFLD / BC): $14 / tracking included USA: $12 / $18 with tracking International: $20
For order inquiries, please contact: info@performanceart.ca
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2. FADO Performance Art Centre presents: Performance Club 2 Valley of the Dolls with Keith Cole Dates: January 30–February 27, 2018 (5 sessions)
DATES & TIMES Session 1: Tuesday 30 January / 7–9pm Session 2: Tuesday 6 February / 7–9pm Session 3: Tuesday 13 February / 7–9pm Session 4: Tuesday 20 February / 7–9pm LIMITED ENROLMENT
Session 5: Tuesday 27 February 7pm: Keynote & Graduation 8pm: Screening All welcome / EVENT & SCREENING / PWYC
VENUE Super-8 Downtown Hotel, 222 Spadina Avenue The Commons @ 401 Richmond, 401 Richmond Street West, suite 440
INFO There is limited enrolment to attend Sessions #1–4. You must attend all sessions to register. The first 8 participants to register will receive a FREE softcover copy of the book.
Each week, there will be a limited number of "audited" spots to attend a SINGLE session. You must register for these spots. These spots are PWYC.
Performance Club 2: Valley of the Dolls With Keith Cole
Fifty years ago, Jacqueline Susann wrote what would become one of the most successful books of its time (with over 31 million copies sold, and counting) making Susann a household name (even if many read her book under the covers in secret) and bestowing her with the honour of being the first author in history to have three #1 consecutive books on the New York Times bestsellers list. Some might remember the Valley of the Dolls best as the cinematic vehicle for a pill and booze soaked cautionary tale of female ambition, fame, fortune and failure. Fifty years later the story is still relevant, telling us as much about celebrity culture today and it forewarned us then.
You’re got to climb to the top of Mount Everest to see the Valley of the Dolls, and you’re invited to take this journey with Toronto’s very own performance provocateur Keith Cole in a 5-session book club-cum-academic master class. The first 4 sessions take place in a sprawling hotel room. In Session 5, book club attendees gather with audience to watch a screening of the 1967 film directed by Mark Robson, listen to a key note speech by a secret special guest, and receive their “V of the D” diplomas.
This Performance Club provides participants with a survey of a range of theories and opinions about how we engage, understand and re-evaluate, literary works of art from the past. How do we talk about, feel and learn from a work of art that is still celebrated fifty years after its first release? Our lives are increasingly dominated by visual images on screens but what about the act of reading? The act of discussion? The act of listening? The act of offering up opinions? Have we globally lost the inter-personal understanding of the importance of ideas, the circulation of information and the importance of coming together to identify, contextualize and analyze literary works of art?
“The Valley Of The Dolls” by Jacqueline Susann refers to many performance and non-performance outlets. Namely popular entertainment and academic forms ranging from fine art, television, Hollywood, cabaret, camp, feminism, fashion, musical theatre, drug culture, power dynamics and gender politics. All of which will be analyzed in this participant lead Performance Club.
In order to reach a greater understanding of how meaning circulates through our diverse and hectic lives Performance Club participants must first come to terms with 4 items of importance: reading is crucial participation is mandatory attendance counts opinions matter
FADO's newest performance series, Performance Club, attempts to redefine the historical and contemporary performance art canon, one book club, and one book / article / essay / anthology at a time. Invited artists perform the role of book club facilitators, leading the audience through a performance of a reading, a reading performance, a performance about a book, or a bookish performance.
Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/369947933416748/
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3. FADO Performance Art Centre presents: LOST in TRANS by Dickie Beau Presented at The Theatre Centre in the context of Progress Dates: February 8–10, 2018 (3 performances)
DATES & TIMES
VENUE The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen Street West, Toronto Wheelchair accessible space / Gender neutral washrooms
INFO Language: Performed in English
TICKETS Single Tickets: $25 | PURCHASE TICKETS
Conceived and performed by Dickie Beau Curated and presented by FADO Performance Art Centre in the context of Progress
Dickie Beau presents a poetic performance of peculiar personas. LOST in TRANS takes Dickie’s sensational multimedia aesthetic to hallucinatory new heights.
Continuing his shtick of using playback, in which he ‘channels’ voices he sees as being misplaced, misrepresented or misunderstood, Dickie breathes new life into found sound, ‘re-writing’ audio artefacts and playing them back through his body to become a live performing archive of the missing.
Presenting a compelling constellation of vivid characters inspired by cultural antiquity and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, LOST in TRANS is an off-road trip through the cultural archives. Cyclops, the one-eyed giant, becomes a third eye through which we view the world anew, including a radical re-visioning of Echo, the Nymph, of whom all that remained when she died of a broken heart was the sound of her voice…
“Phenomenal talent…a powerful and moving artist…breathtaking.”
“Dickie Beau is the closest this country has to a genuine medium, an auteur of the airwaves, who can put flesh onto recorded sound in a manner both gripping and disturbing.”
ABOUT DICKIE BEAU Dickie Beau draws on performance traditions including clowning, theatre, vaudeville, dance and mime. He merges the sensibility of contemporary culture with queer twists and informed echoes of the past, realizing an exquisite interplay of digital content. A pioneer of playback performance, emerging from the drag tradition of lip-synching, Dickie Beau is influencing the practice of a whole new generation of performance-makers. In October 2015 Dickie joined Queen Mary University of London Department of Drama as an Associate Research Fellow. He also holds an Associate Research Fellowship at Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre at the University of London. In 2014 Dickie was the recipient of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust award.
CREDITS
Conceived and performed by: Dickie Beau Dramaturg: Julia Bardsley Lighting Design: Marty Langthorne Sound Design: Will Saunders Video filming and post-production Consultant: Lukas Demgenski Video operator (Toronto): Aaron Pollard Lighting operator: Nao Nagai Producer: Sally Rose Video consultant: Gillian Tan Pegasus (Toronto): Stephen Lawson Production Manager (Toronto): Deb Lim
THIS IS PROGRESS Progress is an international festival of performance and ideas presented in partnership by SummerWorks Performance Festival and The Theatre Centre. The festival is collectively curated and produced by a series of Toronto-based companies, operating within a contemporary performance context.
Progress 2018 is curated by: SummerWorks Performance Festival, The Theatre Centre, Anandam Dancetheatre, FADO Performance Art Centre, Little Black Afro Theatre Company, Toronto Dance Community Love-In, and Volcano Theatre.
Progress Team Presented by: SummerWorks Performance Festival & The Theatre Centre Festival Producer: Sue Balint Festival Production Manager: Pip Bradford Graphic Design: Monnet Design Web Design: Kyle Purcell For media inquiries: Red Eye Media / Suzanne Cheriton
As a Festival that brings together performance nationally and internationally, Progress wishes to acknowledge that the festival takes place on the traditional territory, Tkaronto, “Where the Trees Meet the Water,” “The Gathering Place” of the Mississauga, Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Wendat Nations. As we come together, we pay our respects to all our relations who have gathered and will continue to gather in this place.
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4. FADO Performance Art Centre presents: Long Table with Lois Weaver Presented at The Theatre Centre in collaboration with Progress and Rhubarb Date: February 9, 2018 (1 performance)
DATE & TIME Friday, February 9 7pm–8:30pm
VENUE The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen Street West, Toronto Wheelchair accessible space / Gender neutral washrooms
INFO ASL INTERPRETED
TICKETS All welcome / FREE
Presented in collaboration with Progress and the Rhubarb Festival
The Long Table is a dinner party structured by etiquette, where conversation is the only course. The project ingeniously combines theatricality and models for public engagement. It is at once a stylised appropriation and an open-ended, non-hierarchical format for participation. Both of these elements–theatrical craft and political commitment–are mutually supporting in this widely and internationally toured work. The (often-feminised) domestic realm here becomes a stage for public thought.
As an experiment in performance as a means of public engagement, the Long Table has been taken up by a vast array of of practitioners in a variety of disciplines as a way to encircle, question, and reflect in a performative, and communal way. Lois Weaver, the originator of the Long Table, hosts this special edition for Progress.
THIS IS PROGRESS
Progress 2018 is curated by: SummerWorks Performance Festival, The Theatre Centre, Anandam Dancetheatre, FADO Performance Art Centre, Little Black Afro Theatre Company, Toronto Dance Community Love-In, and Volcano Theatre.
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5. FADO Performance Art Centre presents: What Tammy Needs to Know... by Lois Weaver Presented at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in the context of the Rhubarb Festival Date: February 17, 2018 (1 performance)
DATE & TIME Saturday, February 17 @ 10pm
VENUE Buddies in Bad Times Theatre 12 Alexander Street, Toronto
TICKETS Evening Pass: $20 (all-access festival-wide including special presentations) Emerging Creators Unit Presentations: PWYC RUSH tickets: PWYC (limited tickets available each day; first come first serve) Tickets online: https://tickets.buddiesinbadtimes.com/TheatreManager/1/login&event=529
What Tammy Needs to Know About Getting Old and Having Sex
FADO Performance Art Centre has a long history collaborating with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre to present the work of Canadian and international performance artists at the Rhubarb! Festival including: 2Fik (2011), Sian Robinson Davies (2012), Paul Couillard and Ed Johnson a.k.a Duorama (2014) and Staceyann Chin (2017).
For the 39th edition of the festival, we are excited to be collaborating with Rhubarb once again; this time to bring the work of celebrated feminist performance icon Lois Weaver to the stage at Buddies. Weaver will be developing and presenting a Toronto iteration of her part-chat show, part-concert performance, What Tammy Needs to Know About Getting Old and Having Sex.
Performed in the guise of her alter-ego Tammy WhyNot, a “65-year old trailer trash blonde who left Nashville for a career as a performance artist”, the performance is created through a collaborative workshop process with local LGBTQ elders in the week leading up to the performance. What Tammy Needs to Know About Getting Old and Having Sex looks at intimacy, relationships, desire, and sex in people over 50. No matter your age, Tammy shows us that love, desire, friendship, sexual health, and losing your keys in your handbag are universal concerns. Several iterations of this performance have been developed with a growing community of seniors in the UK and around the world. Sharing their stories and her own, Tammy invites you to quite worrying why… and start thinking, Why Not?
ABOUT LOIS WEAVER
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6. FADO Performance Art Centre presents: Performance Salon 2 x for staying here with us now by Sherri Hay Dates: February 16 & 24, 2018 (2 performances)
DATES & TIMES Performance 1: Friday, February 16 @ 7:30pm Performance 2: Saturday, February 24 @ 4:00pm
VENUE The Commons @ 401 Richmond, 401 Richmond Street West, suite 440, Toronto
INFO Doors open 30 minutes prior to performance start time / No latecomers admitted
TICKETS PWYC (at door only)
x for staying here with us now Conceived by Sherri Hay
As a sculptor, it has never seemed outlandish to me to think about objects as having a life of their own. Nurit Bird David talks about a kind of empathetic understanding between people and the things around them that is bred by familiarity. A good friend from Japan tells how seamstresses hold funerals for their needles, burying them in a soft cool block of tofu at the temple. Which sounds quaint and funny, though of course even we are every day more familiar with how our smart devices seduce us.
For so much of our history what has been valorized was the human who would subdue and shape the world through his reason and will, a world that was considered to be inert and insensible. In this new age of connectivity, some new ways of being and relating are coming into focus, beginning to acknowledge to a broad spectrum of otherness, and preferring self-organization to dominion.
Two evenings, two different non-human performers performing a score. The performance will move slowly, lasting perhaps 45 minutes. The exact time of the performance will be determined by the performer, in the moment. The performance will be corporeal, unmediated and analogue, not moved by electronics or motors. It will be attendant to real life forces like gravity, as well as its own material constraints.
THE GOLDEN BOOK On the occasion of this new work by Sherri Hay, FADO is pleased to publish the fourth in The Golden Book series, containing an interview about the process of creating this performance, conducted by FADO and the performer in x for staying here with us now. The Golden Book series (designed by Lisa Kiss Design) is an irregular limited edition booklette series containing a single text, photo essay, interview, or abstract didactic about a forthcoming performance project. Other editions in the series include: Film: Rope by Francesco Gagliardi (essay by Andrew James Paterson); Duorama 1–4 (photo essay on the works of Duorama performance series by Paul Couillard and Ed Johnson); and PULSE by Mary Coble (workbook and key for Coble’s 2016 MONOMYTHS performance of the same name).
ABOUT SHERRI HAY Sherri Hay a Canadian artist who splits her time between NYC and Toronto. With a wide-ranging practice that includes video and performance, her sculpture and installations have been exhibited internationally, at the Art Gallery of Toronto and the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art in Toronto. She is also an occasional collaborator in experimental theatre and dance. Since 2012, her practice has focused on movement and time, relationships and change, exploring the quality and the extent to which she can give over voice as an artist–how she can be the instigator of a process instead of the Creator-from-nothing, proposing a certain kind of sentience for objects as performers.
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