LIVE at the End of the Century

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Jude Norris, 'Blue Lodge'
Date:
1999-10-07
Genre:
performance art
Description:
Blue Lodge was performed as part of ALA's Havana Gallery series and was curated by Archer Pechawis. Also known as A Little Piece of Unity, this performance is an unconventional multi-media storytelling that recorded and reflected on aspects of Norris' relationships with her horse and the...
Taste This, 'Too Close to Fire'
Date:
1999-11-05
Genre:
performance art
Description:
Taste This, a group of four performers who blend storytelling, music, and performance to create a multi-media spoken word experience, has been known to take on topics ranging from cross dressing to super heroes, and now, pyromania. Too Close to Fire, an interdisciplinary performance, kicked off the...
Maya Love, 'Dance Performance'
Date:
1999-10-30
Genre:
performance art
Description:
This piece is a compilation of four solos. The image and message of Mary Magdalene is portrayed from four historical viewpoints: the medieval, the Elizabethan, the turn of the Twentieth Century, and the modern. The challenge of uniting the physical and spiritual is developed with reference to...
Marlene Madison, 'Little Miss Mira'
Date:
1999-10-15
Genre:
performance art
Description:
Informed by popular culture and situated in contemporary cultural issues, Marlene Madison's Mira investigates multiple performance gestures and takes a humorous look at the phenomenon of cults - from psychoanalysis to those which more subtly permeate the mainstream, such as consumerism,...
Andrew McCully, 'The Crash'
Date:
1999-10-02
Genre:
performance art
Description:
We step into the year 1929 and the big crash is looming ahead. We see him. perhaps mad in the surrounding whirlwind and we see her who shapes his destiny. The Players flit in and out of his mind, and as the paranoia grows does anyone know where to turn?
Performance Network Symposium
Date:
1999-10-21-1999-10-25
Genre:
performance art
Description:
The Performance Network Symposium brought together curators from across Canada to develop and explore networking and exchange opportunities in the performance art sector via three days of attending LIVE events and discussions for participants, followed by a full day of public presentations at the...
Ruby Truly, 'Wireless Bodies'
Date:
1999-10-26
Genre:
performance art
Description:
Wireless Bodies was performed as part of ALA's Havana Gallery Series and was curated by Adad Hannah. The overarching theme of this performance is the wireless body - the body as appropriated and inserted into a set of media determined relationships.
Helena Goldwater, 'pucker'
Date:
1999-10-07
Genre:
performance art
Description:
pucker is the story of how one woman's sexuality revolves around and inside her mouth. With falling ice, secreted hairnets and golden handbags, Goldwater revels in the pleasure of words as they roll off the tongue.

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