EDGY WOMEN FESTIVAL: Festival? What festival?
Compartmentalizing art makes it difficult to decide what goes in what showcase

Spending last week in Montréal for the 17th edition of The Edgy Women Festival, I return home to Edmonton with the same question two years in a row: would Festival City be open to this type [...]

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I’ll admit up front that circus work has never been a favorite of mine. But as circus elements from trapeze, hoop, and contortion find their way into other forms of the performing arts, I can respect elements of their physicality that don’t make me feel like I’m clapping [...]

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Demonstrating its international eclecticism as we head into the final stretch of Edgy 2010, the festival lines up Berlin-based Yumiko Yoshioka with up and coming Montréal cabaret favorite Lise Vigneault and American dance and performance artist Karen Sherman for an evening of transformative identities.
Yoshioka, working with choreographer Rena [...]

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As the Montreal premiere for her first full length feature, Jess Dobkin’s “Everything I’ve Got” certainly lived up to its namesake by spilling out idea after precious idea of unrealized and unborn performance ideas from years in the making.
Continuing her startling and heartwarming approach to the concept of [...]

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In her fourth appearance at Edgy Women Festival, Jess Dobkin returns with her first presentation of a full length piece and a week long workshop on the concept of intimacy.

Finding time after her first day’s workshop at Studio 303, the Toronto-based performance artist explains that she’s not so [...]

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As an arts writer based in Edmonton, I’m delighted for the opportunity to write on daring and innovative interdisciplinary art for Edgy Women 2010 in Montréal.
So it’s with fondness that I’ve noticed this year’s Edgy Women press image along with last year’s poster image are both of edgy [...]