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 [...]
Et voilà, Edgy vient de se finir en beauté ! Avec un spectacle qui a mon sens représente bien le festival : éclectique, drôle et de qualité !
Primordial Vaudeville est une pièce conçue et mise en scène par Krin Maren Haglund, à la croisée des chemins entre cirque et théâtre physique. Avec ses acolytes Anna Ward et Marie-Soleil [...]
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 for human tricks. [...]
Bon, je vous l’ai déjà dit, c’est mon premier Edgy et il y a deux choses qui s’imposent à moi jusqu’à présent : l’éclectisme des travaux présentés et la prépondérance de l’humour.
Tout d’abord, revenons sur la performance de Jess Dobkin. Comme pour le Edgy Challenge, j’ai filmé la performance et du coup je ne l’ai pas [...]
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 Konstantaki, maintains strong aesthetic roots in the [...]
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 vulnerability, Dobkin opens up her notebooks with [...]
A special kind of magic happened at the Edgy Boum on Saturday night! It was an blend that only the Edgy Women Festival could deliver: imaginative performances, intriguing installations, interactive initiatives, right on dj-ing and an incredible crowd of awesome women. I can’t say for sure, but I’m guessing that pretty much everybody got laid [...]
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 much “teaching” intimacy, but exploring the idea [...]
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À propos de Edgy Boum
Bon, la question du jour c’est : comment écrire sur un spectacle que je n’ai pas vu… ? Et là vous vous dites que j’ai perdu la raison puisque j’étais au festival samedi soir… Humm oui, vu comme ça, je ne peux [...]
You know the best fest has to be the Edgy Women Festival, a flare of feminist performance art presented by Studio 303, that lasts only a couple of weeks, but challenges and inspires you for-freaking-ever.
Starting the festival in full swing last night: Neon Nightz with The Scandelles (Toronto). Sasha Van Bon Bon, Kitty Neptune, and [...]
