Theatre Junction has announced its 2014-15 season and the lineup has a mix of multidisciplinary works from near and far including the debut of a new work by the company itself; a remount of Old Trout Puppet Workshop favourite; a dance piece from Isreal’s LEV a collaboration of choreographer Sharon Eyal and live music producer Gai Behar; an exploration of feminist paradigms by experimental New York playwright Young Jean Lee; and more.
The complete lineup includes:
• Oct. 22-25 — House by Isreal’s LEV (Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar) featuring 10 dancers dressed in the nude body stockings that are LEV’s distinctive aesthetic performing in unison to a techno beat. Presented in collaboration with Springboard Performance’s Fluid Festival.
• Nov. 19-22 — Amsterdam’s PIPS:lab returns following last year’s Beakerhead appearance with another multimedia multidisciplinary interactive performance. Social Fiction explore the phenomenon of social media where a social life may now consist of browsing the web preferably without personal commitment
• Jan. 14-17 — Untitled Feminist Show by award-winning experimental playwright Jean Young Lee New York. Having previously performed We’re Gonna Die at Theatre Junction Lee’s company’s new work is an exploration of feminist paradigms featuring six starts of the downtown New York theatre dance cabaret and burlesque worlds in a blend of comic vignettes contemporary dance sequences and evocative video images. Presented in collaboration with One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo.
• Feb 27-March 7 — Everybody knows this is Nowhere by Theatre Junction artistic director Mark Lawes and the resident company of artists. The second chapter in the Supernova trilogy mixes pop-music theatre video art
and new technologies in an exploration of unknown territories.
• March 13-28 — A remount of Old Trout Puppet Workshop’s Famous Puppet Death Scenes which was first performed in in 2006 at Theatre Junction Grand featuring a new cast and some brand-new scenes. The show is presented in collaboration with the Calgary Animated Objects Society’s International Festival of Animated Objects.
• April 15-18 — Usually Beauty Fails by choreographer/musician Frédérick Gravel of Grouped’ArtGravelArtGroup (Montréal). Six dancers and a live rock band take the stage to perform a "concept album" of
human desires: beauty love sex and the challenges of relationships.
For details including tickets and passes go to theatrejunction.com .
