Events

Athula Adhikari is performing live for the first time in Calgary at The Grand in the Flanagan Theatre. He is one of the most famous musicians in the Sri Lankan music industry. He is not only a singer… He is a great musician too. Sri Lankan folks in the Province of Alberta will experience a different type of musical entertainment with Unplugged Lite with Athula for the first time in Calgary. Athula Adikari will perform with his Guitar and key board and with support from Sumudu Fonseka from Lead Acoustic. Come and experience a new style of musical entertainment in Calgary. This production is brought to you by Ceylon Entertainment Inc with guidance of Athula Adikari.

VOLUME II

Choreographed and interpreted by
Geneviève Boulet, Erin O’Loughlin, and Laura Toma

Woven together in the image of a braid, the three members of LA TRESSE Collective focus their research on an unconventional femininity. In this second volume, LA TRESSE explores a feminine force through an intense and total physical presence. The women are lead to discover a sacred connection anchored in desire, ritual and devotion.

A GIRL

Choreography by Roy Assaf
Interpretation by Geneviève Boulet

Roy Assaf and Geneviève Boulet met in the summer of 2014 at the Dance Biennial in Venice, Italy. After their encounter they felt a strong urge to collaborate once more. They did not want to let financial constraints or distance infringe on the very simple desire to collaborate and create with one another. This fuelled their desire to make possible, beyond these boundaries, the time and place to create a solo. A year later they met in Montreal to create A GIRL. The solo is the daughter of Girls, a 50 minute quintet. From a dance of five women on white linoleum comes a dance of one woman on a single meter, a runway on which she approaches and retreats repeatedly, revealing herself.

From the minds behind The Highest Step in the World, Tomorrow’s Child and The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst comes a new show of epic proportions. GIANT is the amazing story of professional wrestler André the Giant, one of the most recognizable and beloved public figures ever, told from the perspective of the one person he left behind.

Packed with captivating imagery, animated objects, and the raw spectacle of a wrestling match, GIANT unfolds as a boisterous alternative to the traditional bio-pic. A cast of five women tells the story with a raucous high theatricality that bodyslams professional wrestling’s hypermasculine culture. Ghost River’s trademark collaborative approach to theatre means that design, direction, script and performance all work together to stage an unstageable protagonist (7’4” and 520 pounds!), using the language of theatrical scale to express the extraordinary life of a person of extraordinary size.

Tickets available for purchase at www.puppetfestival.ca/project/giant/