The pinnacle of the Vancouver International Dance Festival opener? When Akaji Maro, in Bride of Frankenstein gown, a wild frightwig, and eerie Noh makeup, makes his grand entrance aboard a cyberslave-drawn wagon.
Adi Salant's new WHICH/ONE adds a sly and energized new female voice to the repertoire, while Crystal Pite's profound Solo Echo continues to mesmerize.
At its world premiere in Vancouver last night, Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young's hyperstylized, hallucinatory new dance-theatre work had enough electricity to blow out the substation down the street at Cathedral Square.
In this multimedia dance-theatre work from Australia, blood becomes a symbol of what connects him to his Aboriginal heritage, and what threatens to separate him from living happily ever after with a partner.