Produced by One Yellow Rabbit

COntinues with Week three

 

Calgary, AB – The popular 26th annual High Performance Rodeo, Calgary’s International Festival of the Arts continues today thru January 28, 2012 at various venues throughout Calgary, and features a collection of the boldest and the brightest artists from the realms of theatre, dance, comedy, music and wrestling.  More information and tickets can be found at www.hprodeo.ca and by calling 403-294-9494. The schedule of performances and events for Week 3 is as follows:

 

The Ugly One – DMV Theatre (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Lunchbox Theatre and The High Performance Rodeo are thrilled to co-present Halifax’s DMV Theatre Collective with their acclaimed The Ugly One. This one act play tells the story of a successful electrical engineer, who’s fulfilled life comes crashing down around him when it is brought to his attention that he is unspeakably ugly.

 

January 16        12:10 pm          $19 - $25

January 17        12:10 pm          $19 - $25

January 18        12:10 pm          $19 - $25

January 19        7:30 pm            $26 - $32

January 20        6:10 pm            $26 - $32

January 20        9:30 pm            $26 - $32

January 21        12:10 pm          $19 - $25

January 21        7:30 pm            $26 - $32

January 23        12:10 pm          $19 - $25

January 24        12:10 pm          $19 - $25

January 25        12:10 pm          $19 - $25          

January 26        7:30 pm            $26 - $32

January 27        6:10 pm            $26 - $32

January 27        9:30 pm            $26 - $32

January 28        12:10 pm          $19 - $25

January 28        7:30 pm            $26 - $32

 

Lunchbox Theatre

 

In Conversation – Laurie Anderson (USA)

In conjunction with her video installation, The Gray Rabbit, festival artist-in-residence Laurie Anderson will participate in Glenbow Museum's In Conversation series. In Conversation's casual interview format gives audiences a chance to hear what artists, curators and other cultural innovators are thinking, what makes them tick and what inspires them.

 

January 17        7:00pm             $20 for Glenbow Members/$25 for Non-Members

 

ConocoPhillips Theatre, Glenbow Museum

 

 

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The Gray Rabbit – Laurie Anderson (USA)

 

The Glenbow Museum will present the North American premiere of The Gray Rabbit, in association with the High Performance Rodeo. This autobiographical video installation, filled with dreamlike and heavily processed images, re-explores Laurie Anderson’s memories of a pivotal childhood event, realizing that what she remembers and what she recounts to people is a “cleansed” version of the tale.

 

January 18 – April 9       Monday – Saturday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm $9 – $14

                                                     Sunday: 12 noon – 5:00 pm

 

Glenbow Museum

 

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Year of the Dragon Art Parade Preview  - One Yellow Rabbit (Calgary, Alberta)

As downtown commuters leave their offices on January 20th, they'll receive a colourful surprise as the Year of the Dragon Art Parade greets them in the Plus 15 system! A couple of days before the parade join the Rodeo for an exciting lunchtime preview, where participating parade artists will give us a sneak peek at the action that will infect downtown.

 

January 18        12:00 noon        Free

 

Cathedral Church of the Redeemer

 

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Only Love Knows Love - David Rhymer & Onalea Gilbertson (Calgary, Alberta)

 

David Rhymer, a multi-award winning writer and composer, creates strange pastiches that integrate text and music in novel ways. He has written, composed or co-created stage works that have toured nationally and internationally. In this intimate salon of theatre songs, Rhymer teams up with dynamic cabaret chanteuse Onalea Gilbertson to perform a gallery of songs from his 30 years of theatrical composition, including selections from Mata Hari: Tigress at the City Gate, Wreck Beach, Why Freud Fainted and the hallucinogenic oratorio on the Beat Generation, Dream Machine.

 

January 18        8:00 pm            Pay What You Can

 

Cantos Music Foundation

 

 

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Taking Shakespeare – One Yellow Rabbit (Calgary, Alberta )

One of the major highlights of the festival will be One Yellow Rabbit’s world premiere presentation of John Murrells’ new play Taking Shakespeare - performed by One Yellow Rabbit’s Denise Clarke along with playwright himself, John Murrell.   Taking Shakespeare is the story of sixty-seven year old Prof and twenty-four year old Murph, randomly brought together by the unlikely agent of William Shakespeare himself.  The connection of all three shakes up their lives through comedy, tragedy and a hunger for human understanding - which all three of them share.

 

Now playing till January 28         7:30pm             $28 – $38

 

Big Secret Theatre

 

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Site – Specific Spectacular  – Swallow – A – Bicycle Theatre (Calgary, Alberta)

This mini-festival features performances in the most bizarre locations imaginable, bringing more than fifty local artists to the heights of the Calgary Tower and the depths of the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts.

 

Witness dancers in a freight elevator, acrobats in the boiler room, actors on a rooftop and much more, over the course of four different tours!

 

Tour # 2 - Shadow of the Tower

January 19        7:30, 8:30 & 9:30 pm                 $15

January 20        7:30, 8:30 & 9:30 pm                 $15

January 21        1:30, 7:30, 8:30 & 9:30 pm         $15

 

Calgary Tower

Tour # 3 – Beyond the Curtain

January 19        8:00, 9:00 & 10:00 pm                $15

January 20        8:00, 9:00 & 10:00 pm                $15

January 21        2:00, 8:00, 9:00 & 10:00 pm        $15

 

Centre Court, EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts