Matriarchs Uprising: Samantha Sutherland & Aria Evans (Program B) is one of three dance programs by Indigenous women presented by the National Arts Centre (NAC) Dance and NAC Indigenous Theatre last week, aimed at showcasing contemporary Indigenous dance and storytelling. In the emotionally evocative Program B, the audience was carried through rich transformations via two solo dance performances.
Cameryn Moore is a self-described “award-winning playwright/performer, sex activist and educator, sidewalk pornographer, and a long-time phone sex operator”. On February 25th, she is bringing Smut Slam to Ottawa: a performance where attendees sign up to tell a five-minute erotic story drawn from their own experiences. A team of judges awards prizes to the tellers. Brian Carroll […]
A storytelling performance of The Wizard and the Dragon is happening for one night only at the NAC Fourth Stage this Thursday. In anticipation of this event, we caught up with Nicole Lavigne and Marie Bilodeau, experienced storytellers, published authors and co-creators of the performance for Apt613 Live on CHUO 89.1 FM. Have a listen […]
The concept of Jerk It: A Collection of Masturbation Stories (by Tony Adams, Madeleine Boyes-Manseau and Cory Thibert, of May Can Theatre) is a straight to the point exercise in storytelling: anonymously crowd-sourced personal stories of masturbation are read by five different performers; no sets or costumes, just unselfconscious readings of unselfconsciously written stories, a […]
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