I Don't Get It

It’s the Year in Review episode! Paul and Fawnda share their thoughts on the year in dance, particularly the highlights. Among other things, they discuss the most affecting show of the season, the dancer with the best name, and the gal in town with dragon balls.

Paul and Fawnda return to talk about their first full-on Dancefest@Nextfest binge, plus they bear witness to Mile Zero Dance‘s experimental and excellent Sho-tel.  

Fawnda and Paul are back at it after moving the blanket fort across the city and snagging the Yeggie Award for Best in Arts & Culture, covering Body Traks by Tony Olivares Dance and Devi presented by the Thousand Faces Festival. Lots in store before the close of the season, so listen close for details […]

Fawnda and Paul stumble upon Lara Kramer‘s powerful and disturbing dance/theatre piece “Native Girl Syndrome“, a one-night only showing presented by Alberta Aboriginal Arts as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. They got it–they got it hard. Plus a round-up of dance events to look forward to throughout April in #yeg.

Fawnda regales Paul with tales from the Northwest Dance Project that include incidents of “snailing”, “slappy fights” and Sarah Slipper‘s duet that blows her mind — and tear ducts. Plus, Paul sees Alberta Ballet‘s production of Giselle. It’s his first classical ballet and the experience leads him to debate with Fawnda about whether ballet needs to evolve to […]

We did it! Four days at Expanse and still kicking (even daylight savings time could not thwart us). In our final festival episode we recap what we saw throughout Expanse, what we thought of it, and provide some final beer-laden conjecture on what it all means for #yeg’s dance scene. Thanks for listening, festival folk!

We’re back for the final evening of Expanse, where Paul and Fawnda talk to a bevy of audience members about what they saw at the festival (stay tuned for stories of psychotic bedroom dancing–thanks Alison Kause!). We also attempt another Side Door Show play-by-play of Kyle Tennant’s performance piece titled Paint. Also, please be aware […]

Paul and Fawnda give a PGA play-by-play of the Arts Barns lobby antics from the Side Door Project and The Traveler (Tony Olivares), and then pull in choreographer Deanna Peters to talk about her featured work: New Raw. Also, there’s some explicit language in this episode. So, listener discretion is up to your discretion. You’ve […]

Expanse Movement Arts Festival is upon us! And IDGI is in the Arts Barns with Festival Producer Murray Utas to talk about 10 years of Expanse’s expanding and the feats to look forward to this weekend. We also rope theatre artist extraordinaire Nancy McAlear into our blanket tent to talk about Blue Eyes, Black Hair. Expanse […]

Paul is back to chat about last week’s Prairie Dance Circuit double-bill featuring Johanna Bundon’s the understory and the spectacular kathak spins of Usha Dance Enoturage in Aalaap (and Fawnda loses her mind, just a little).

Fawnda tracks down Trent Wilkie (of Mostly Water Theatre, and myriad journalistic pursuits about town) to talk about Alberta Ballet’s presentation of the athletic and surprising AILEY II.

While Paul is away playing judge at Rapid Fire Theatre’s WildFire Festival, Fawnda tracks down improv Man-About-Town Vince Forcier to review L’Uni Theatre’s presentation of the marvellous, gravity-defying physical theatre show, LEO.

Fawnda and Paul return to chat about capable backs, monster shapes, cat hands, and “the dinosaur run” as they review  Alberta Ballet: Up Close presented by BWDC and PPS Danse’s  Danse Lhasa Danse.

Fawnda takes Omar Mouallem to his first dance show ever, butchers Robert Rauschenberg’s name, and covers the history of the term “interpretive dance,” all while covering Mile Zero Dance’s presentation of CAGE’D.

When Paul flees to Toronto, special guest-host Jen Mesch joins Fawnda in the blanket fort to chat about the Good Women Dance Collective’s Convergence showcase.

Paul talks with Firefly Theatre & Circus’ founders Annie Dugan and John Ullyatt about their upcoming circus musical—but before that there’s a whole whack-load of dance coming up in December that’s not The Nutcracker.

In this episode Paul chats about the “clippets” at Mile Zero Dance’s salon Spontaneous Combustion, and he and Fawnda weigh in on the junkie version of Princess Aurora in Mats Ek’s Sleeping Beauty.

Technical issues swarm us like biblical locusts, but here’s the first episode of I Don’t Get It. Brian Webb’s 35th Season opener featuring Quiver by Nicole Mion and what awaits me by Brian Webb, gets discussed. Paul coins the term ‘Giraffe-ical’. And more!