Photo Essay: Trick or Try Me, Witch!
On Hallowe’en, You’re Welcome and the Haus of Accounting put on a queer variety night Spooktacular called Trick or Try Me, Witch! Quxxn put on two drag performances. The first …
Dance and Performance Art
Peterborough Academy of Circus Arts Presents Cirque-lesque
The Peterborough Academy of Circus Arts (PACA) presented a Valentine’s day Cirque-lesque show. The show, which was a combination of circus and burlesque acts, was an exciting night for viewers …
Bringing sexy back: burlesque classes at Trent
Three years ago, Trent University PhD student Amy Jane Vosper (a.k.a. Miss Von Purr) hosted a free workshop in conjunction with the Trent Queer Collective and Self Love Week. In …
Beat the winter blahs with burlesque
If you’ve seen the movie Burlesque starring Christina Aguilera and Cher, you know how exciting burlesque can be. When I saw it I fell in love with the idea of …
Beyond the barre
This is a piece about leaving behind what you love most, and how dance follows you outside the studio. Somewhere, in the east end of Ottawa, in a transformed dance …
“Backroom Cabaret: Performing Stories of Love” in photos
All photos are from the Backroom Cabaret, which took place in the Sadleir House Dining Hall on March 5, 2015.
Amy Jane Von Purr on bringing burlesque to Self Love Week
After the success of last autumn’s ‘Babe-Lesque’, Amy Jane Von Purr is once again bringing Burlesque worskhops back to Sadleir with a free, one night workshop during Self-Love Week then …
Trent graduate student brings burlesque to Peterborough
Photo by Jenny Fisher While burlesque has a long history, it has recently been catching on across the continent as a form of performance art, in part because of its …
Performance Review: eidolon – Possessed by ghosts
Bill James photo: Cylla von Tiedemann Dave Grenon photo: Esther Vincent Entering Market Hall performance centre to see Bill James’ one-night dance performance, eidolon, the audience was met by a …
Public Energy’s Paris, la Nuit reviewed
It is 8pm, September 12, at Artspace in downtown Peterborough. The room is full of people who came to listen to a small performance. This is Paris, La Nuit, the …