Chutzpah Festival announces 2015 lineup
Yet another red-hot Israeli dance troupe will make its North American debut at the multigenre Chutzpah Festival, set to run from February 19 to March 15 at the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre and various other venues. Tickets for the event go on sale Wednesday (November 26) at the Chutzpah Festival website.
Israeli troupe Maria Kong combines dance, a live rock band, theatre, video, and interactive media technology in Backstage. Elsewhere on the strong dance program for the fest’s 15th anniversary, street- and martial-arts-inspired Vancouver powerhouse Shay Kuebler debuts his new company and its work Glory, Bodytraffic returns as Chutzpah’s international resident company, and Israel’s Idan Sharabi & Dancers appear.
Highlights of the music programming include Ethiopian-infused reggae band Zvuloon Dub System from Israel; the punk cabaret and Yiddish song of Germany’s Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird; and the world premiere of B.C. composer Paul Alexander’s piece Remembering Steel Skies Raining Tears, featuring the Borealis String Quartet, cellist Eric Wilson, and percussionist Boris Sichon.
The roster also includes comedian, actor, and writer Wendy Hammers’s one-woman confessional Ripe; the show You’re Funny, But You Don’t Look Jewish!, performed by (respectively) South Asian, Italian, and Vietnamese-American Jewish standup comedians Samson Koletkar, Mike Capozzola, and Joseph Nguyen; the play Kafka and Son, featuring Alon Nashman; and Sisyphean Theatre’s physical-theatre-in-the-round production of Marathon.
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