Tag Archive for the term: interview

When he was in his early twenties, Andrew Turner had his mind set on academia. He was studying history and literature, thinking he would eventually become a professor. But with the best laid plans… “I developed a set of chronic injuries in my left arm,” he tells me. “I was also a musician and I [...]

There is no single point of entry into Anne Thériault’s work. When watching her shows, it’s hard to figure out what element she uses as a foundation to build her work. The choreography, the costumes, the lighting; they don’t seem to be layered as much as to be happening all at once, inseparable from one [...]

I’m already a big fan of Jacques Poulin-Denis and I’ve never even seen a show explicitly choreographed by him only. It’s that Poulin-Denis is truly a multi-disciplinary artist. He created the music for O Vertigo’s majestic Étude #3 pour cordes et poulies and the revival of La Chambre Blanche. He’s danced for and with the [...]

In between rehearsing for the new show she’s working on and running over to Tangente to work on the set design for the show she’s presenting this week in Montreal, Toronto choreographer Ame Henderson takes a bit of time to sit down with me at Cheval Blanc. It’s the second time I’ll get to see [...]

KOMA is an official selection at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, in competition for the Louve d’or. I was able to do a little electronic interview with the film’s director, Ludwig Wust (Note: if I knew how to make umlauts, one would appear over the ‘u’ in Wust)
SYNOPSIS
Hans, a taxi driver in a small [...]

Air make music that keys directly into my cognitive comfort zones, it’s amazing how some music doesn’t just fill your ears, but plays your spine and nervous system like you are one of those huge and no doubt happy wooden zylophones. Air hums so pretty it sits on your tongue, and in this video The [...]

Susan Seidelman, director of Smithereens, Desperately Seeking Susan and Sex in the City talks with Filmmaker Magazine about the way one would go about making movies back in the day, with no end goal in mind beyond telling a certain story in a certain way.
“Thinking back on it,” director Susan Seidelman writes, “there was [...]

Check out Pat Donnelly’s Gazette Blog about “30 DATES” the upcoming hit comedy coming to Montreal for 5 shows ONLY at Centaur Theatre. (Sept. 23 – 26).
http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/stageandpage/archive/2009/09/10/online-dating-speed-dating-fenulla-jiwani-s-30-dates-at-centaur-theatre.aspx
Look for Pat’s in-depth feature Gazette article on the playwright and star of the show, Fenulla Jiwani, on Tuesday, Sept. 22nd, 2009.
For tickets call: (514) 288 – 3161
ADVANCE TICKETS [...]

Vanity Fair writer Mike Sacks ended up with one of the last interviews ever with Larry Gelbart, the comedy writing great, creator of the television adaptation of M*A*S*H and the movie Tootsie, Gelbart died September 11, 2009. The interview is amazing, Gelbart mentions that the show was never supposed to have a laugh track and [...]

Moby’s right, I was just kitchen grooving yesterday and thinking about it: Beyonce’s Single Ladies is the best pop song in ages, perhaps eva, and the choreography is aggressive, brilliant, hilarious and sexy in an empowering way.
Even if you’re not interested in rings or being called “it” – as in “ïf you like it [...]