Contemporary colour theory often associates white with innocence, purity, perfection, and virginity. White is unobtrusive and unaggressive. White pacifies. But there was immediately something unsettling about the tiny white table and chair that Leslie Baker chose for the set of her Edgy Women performance, Fuck you, You fucking Perv! As the house lights came up [...]
We’re warned before the show begins: you might want to get a drink…
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It starts with a mask glowing on a microphone and a single verse: “They shall see me naked.”
After a healthy swig of brandy and a whisper in an audience members’ ear, she puts on the glowing skeleton mask and grabs the [...]
The Edgy extras this year just keep getting better. Take advantage of them, in their affordable (read: free) amazingness, tomorrow afternoon for an artists’ chat with Winnipeg-based theatre team Mia Van Leuwen and Ian Mozdzen at McGill University.
I know I’m thrilled to meet and interact with this dynamic duo—very personally as a Winnipegger, a UofW [...]
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Anti-cool + Leslie Baker + Narcissister
Tangente X 3 présente trois artistes qui explorent chacune à leur manière des univers bien différents.
Anti-cool (Japon)
« Au japon, les clients son traités comme des Dieux. Les employés doivent offrir un service à la clientèle impeccable avec le sourire et ce, même s’ils sont [...]
She introduced herself to me as “anti-cool,” but it wasn’t the woman I’d expected. It wasn’t the unstoppable energy I’d previously witnessed, with long, black hair flying as fast as the arms she threw into the drums. The last time she was in town, she was rocking out with Duchess Says—a dark punkrock Montreal music [...]
The dregs of a Montreal March are long, lightless, beige days punctuated by Daylight Savings Time, which forces us to exchange a precious extra hour of weekend sleep for the promise of brighter mornings and longer evenings, every year. The last few weeks of the month confuse our bodies and our wardrobes as glimpses of [...]
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Andréane arrive à 10 h tapantes dans un café-resto rue Bernard. Elle est souriante, affable et prête à parler de son travail. Née à Gatineau, la québécoise de 27 ans a rejoint le monde du cirque à 9 ans. Formée par l’École nationale de Cirque, elle fera plus tard [...]
I wrote to Narcissister a few weeks ago. As I anxiously composed a short email, introducing myself and telling her how excited I was to be attending TANGENTE X 3, I found myself confessing: “I am not a performance artist or an artist of any kind, really, but I love to talk about sex and bodies and [...]
The Edgy Women Festival is pleased to present a Free Sidewalk Sex Clinic for all your sex inquiries…
Hosted by radical sex educators and artists Annie Sprinkle & Elizabeth Stephens—who certainly pleased the sold-out crowd at La Sala Rossa Saturday—this event is both a public service and an interventionist art event.
“There are really no expectations,” Elizabeth [...]
“There is a completely unpredictable element on ice. There are other people skating, little kids sliding, someone could fall, could crash, anything can happen—who knows what could happen? And there’s a nervousness about this unknown element, but that’s part of the thrill, isn’t it? Otherwise, you would just go and see a movie…”
Singles, doubles and [...]
