Theaterlabor Bielefeld: The High Performance Rodeo
Place: Calgary
Event: The Goethe-Institut Toronto co-presents the first Canadian tour of “Body Fragments”, a performance by the German theatre company “Theaterlabor Bielefeld”.
Theatre Festival Continues Distinctively Queer Bent One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo has a long history of offering unique theatrical experience to Calgary patrons. Of the many types of shows that have been part of the last 23 years, there has always been at least one gay performer or related show. Not an accident, says curator Michael Green. […] There are [shows that are] of specific queer interest, although the festival offers a broad spectrum that will interest regardless of your sexuality. “I don’t want to trick your readership into coming to see something and then go away and say Oh, that wasn’t gay or that was too queer for me. I can say that young people who are exploring their sexuality and the definition of queer, they should not miss Midway and Freak Show. Fans of the outrageous gay painter Francis Bacon should not miss Theaterlabor’s Body Fragments.” […] “When it comes time to decide who is invited to the festival, I imagine that we are putting on a smorgasbord. It is really important that we respect the breadth of taste that Calgary has, the varied appetites. […] It is not often in the world that one gets the sense that you are doing the right thing. With the High Performance Rodeo there is full evidence of that.”
Event: The Goethe-Institut Toronto co-presents the first Canadian tour of “Body Fragments”, a performance by the German theatre company “Theaterlabor Bielefeld”.
Theatre Festival Continues Distinctively Queer Bent One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo has a long history of offering unique theatrical experience to Calgary patrons. Of the many types of shows that have been part of the last 23 years, there has always been at least one gay performer or related show. Not an accident, says curator Michael Green. […] There are [shows that are] of specific queer interest, although the festival offers a broad spectrum that will interest regardless of your sexuality. “I don’t want to trick your readership into coming to see something and then go away and say Oh, that wasn’t gay or that was too queer for me. I can say that young people who are exploring their sexuality and the definition of queer, they should not miss Midway and Freak Show. Fans of the outrageous gay painter Francis Bacon should not miss Theaterlabor’s Body Fragments.” […] “When it comes time to decide who is invited to the festival, I imagine that we are putting on a smorgasbord. It is really important that we respect the breadth of taste that Calgary has, the varied appetites. […] It is not often in the world that one gets the sense that you are doing the right thing. With the High Performance Rodeo there is full evidence of that.”
by Rob Diaz-Marino, GayCalgary & Edmonton Magazine, # 63, January 2009
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