Proximity Arts
1204 - 550 Taylor St.
Vancouver, BC, V6B 1R1
778-858-1830

In development:

Mal de mer

Mal de mer is a new dance work about being unsteady, off balance and slightly askew in an attempt to reveal our relationship to life and the sea, even if it just makes us sick to our stomachs. Co-choreographed by Tanya Marquardt and Susan Elliott, Mal de mer has been developed in Vancouver and New York City, as well as at a week-long residency at the Caravan Farm Theatre in Armstrong BC, along with dramaturg Heidi Taylor, and designers Jesse Garlick and Barnaby Killam. Currently Mal de mer is being developed during a residency at the Scotia Bank Dance Centre, and in April we will go for another week-long design residency at the Caravan Farm Theatre. Look for an outdoor performance in July 2010.

 

Supported by:

Join Proximity and friends November 6th at the Beaumont for a birthday bash featuring:

No Hitting , TUKE, top secret porn files,  something pretty, Chad MacQuarrie 

Wear a mustache!

 

 

 

PROJECT LAUNCH
Sunday JUNE 21, 2009
1:00 to 4:00 pm


Blim
197 17th Ave. E
Vancouver

By Donation

 



Proximity Arts will be hosting a garden-style tea party to formally launch the project.  Drop by for a wiki tutorial and to learn more about the project. And don't miss the homemade lemonade and fresh cucumber sandwiches!

Access the wikiversity site here

Or go to our Projects page to find out more

 

Transmission: Feb 13-28th, 2009 @ Box Studios, 1622 Franklin St.

Check out the reviews at The Straight,  Review Vancouver and The Vancouver Courier.
 

 

photo of David Bloom by Peter Hagge

Transmission:

 

people disappear every day

A dank basement in East Vancouver lit by a single light bulb; a man broadcasts to the world.  Transmission by Tanya Marquardt is the story of a late night talk radio host and his missing sister. Part live performance, part radio broadcast, the production will take place at Box Studios from February 13-28th, 2009. Incorporating text, movement and a live soundscape, Transmission will be an intense and totally immersive experience – both unforgettable and haunting. Transmission is about a man struggling to put together the pieces of the past he shared with his sister. From the dynamic of an intimate sibling relationship that is forever ruptured, the piece spirals out into the broader world, broader conflicts and broader loss. It is about the wars that are fought within ourselves and far away. A distilled family epic that powerfully demonstrates how we must live with the choices we make, the production features David Bloom as the radio host and Deanna Peters as the sister who haunts his memories. Written and conceived by Tanya Marquardt, Transmission is co-created with David Bloom, Ilena Lee Cramer, Emma Hendrix, Ahmed Khalil, Heather Lindsay, Deanna Peters, Heidi Taylor, Andrew Templeton and Jeremy Waller.

"...Marquardt is a brave writer and performer...fearless and conceptually challenging" - Jo Ledingham, The Vancouver Courier

 

What         Transmission by Tanya Marquardt

When        February 13 – 28 2009, Tuesday to Saturday, 8:00 pm; 2 for 1 Preview Thursday February 12.

Where       Box Studios; 1622 Franklin Street (1 block west of Commercial & Hastings)

How          Tickets: $12/16 available from Tickets Tonight, www.ticketstonight.ca or by phone: 604.684.2787

Who          Co-presented by Chrysalis Theatre & Proximity Arts, for more information contact: 778.858.1830 or check out www.proximityarts.com

This production of Transmission has been made possible through the generous support of The Canada Council for the Arts, The British Columbia Arts Council, Radix Theatre, Playwrights Theatre Centre, and Box Studios.