http://www.straight.com/content/rss/Arts en http://www.straight.com/article-173122/ballet-bc-ticket-sales-picking Sales of Ballet B.C.'s Nutcracker tickets, critical to ensuring the company's ability to re-hire its dancers and staff and continue operations, have picked up. The organization has introduced 173122 at http://www.straight.com/article-173122/ballet-bc-ticket-sales-picking Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:28:04 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-173122/ballet-bc-ticket-sales-picking#comments Arts http://www.straight.com/article-173087/ballet-bc-dancers-continue-rehearsing Ballet B.C.'s 17 dancers, whose contracts were terminated Monday (November 24), are continuing daily rehearsals at the Dance Centre. In a telephone interview with the Straight, lead dancer Si 173087 at http://www.straight.com/article-173087/ballet-bc-dancers-continue-rehearsing Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:32:48 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-173087/ballet-bc-dancers-continue-rehearsing#comments Arts http://www.straight.com/article-173077/drowsy-chaperone-one-seasons-best-shows One of the best shows of the season, The Drowsy Chaperone is a gigantic Valentine to musical theatre and an impressive debut from the Playhouse Theatre’s incoming artistic director Max Reimer. 173077 at http://www.straight.com/article-173077/drowsy-chaperone-one-seasons-best-shows Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:38:04 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-173077/drowsy-chaperone-one-seasons-best-shows#comments Arts http://www.straight.com/article-173075/jennifer-koh-moves-audience-tears At a packed Heritage Hall last night, Jennifer Koh, armed with her ex-General Dupont 1727 Stradivarius, attacked intensely modern music for solo violin that had the instrument squealing, barking, an 173075 at http://www.straight.com/article-173075/jennifer-koh-moves-audience-tears Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:32:35 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-173075/jennifer-koh-moves-audience-tears#comments Arts http://www.straight.com/article-173072/bc-arts-council-help-ballet-bc The provincial and federal arts councils will assist Ballet B.C., according to Jeremy Long, executive director of the B.C. Arts Council. In a phone call this morning (November 28), Long told t 173072 at http://www.straight.com/article-173072/bc-arts-council-help-ballet-bc Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:24:16 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-173072/bc-arts-council-help-ballet-bc#comments Arts http://www.straight.com/article-172352/smoke-new-fire After more than two decades apart, legendary stoner-comedy trailblazers Rich “Cheech” Marin and Tommy Chong are seeing double once again. 172352 at http://www.straight.com/article-172352/smoke-new-fire Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:38:40 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-172352/smoke-new-fire#comments Arts http://www.straight.com/article-172346/many-sounds-christmas Local musicians are preparing for another seasonal tradition, tuning their instruments and honing their voices for the annual roster of holiday concerts. 172346 at http://www.straight.com/article-172346/many-sounds-christmas Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:12:53 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-172346/many-sounds-christmas#comments Arts http://www.straight.com/article-172372/complex-roots-ballet-woes With news that one of the city’s biggest arts groups laid off 38 dancers and staff until the new year, many are wondering just what went wrong at Ballet B.C.? 172372 at http://www.straight.com/article-172372/complex-roots-ballet-woes Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:52:43 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-172372/complex-roots-ballet-woes#comments Arts http://www.straight.com/article-172368/koh-breaks-down-barriers Neither a purely traditional musician nor a committed champion of the contemporary, New York-based violinist Jennifer Koh straddles both worlds with ease. 172368 at http://www.straight.com/article-172368/koh-breaks-down-barriers Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:22:21 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-172368/koh-breaks-down-barriers#comments Arts http://www.straight.com/article-172356/diamanda-rough-taps-life-and-zep Pianist and singer Diamanda Galás is famous for her intensity but if her concerts often start with sorrow and spill over into horror, her interviews are punctuated with laughter on both ends of the line. 172356 at http://www.straight.com/article-172356/diamanda-rough-taps-life-and-zep Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:50:29 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-172356/diamanda-rough-taps-life-and-zep#comments Arts http://www.straight.com/article-172388/artist-readies-her-response Dance artist Amber Funk Barton’s first full-evening work is called RISK, and on-stage, that’s exactly what her creations are about: the fearless fusion of forms like hip-hop with ballet and contemporary. 172388 at http://www.straight.com/article-172388/artist-readies-her-response Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:19:51 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-172388/artist-readies-her-response#comments Arts http://www.straight.com/article-172347/cultch-completion-pushed-back Crews are putting the finishing touches this week on the three-storey addition to the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, but work on the original theatre continues. 172347 at http://www.straight.com/article-172347/cultch-completion-pushed-back Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:38:58 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-172347/cultch-completion-pushed-back#comments Arts http://www.straight.com/article-172349/vag-expands-family-programs The Vancouver Art Gallery is replacing Super Sundays with a new series of family programs, running every Saturday and every second Sunday, to begin in February. 172349 at http://www.straight.com/article-172349/vag-expands-family-programs Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:41:47 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-172349/vag-expands-family-programs#comments Arts http://www.straight.com/article-172351/pushing-new-territory The fifth annual PuSh International Performing Arts Festival will feature genre-busting programming from as far away as Japan, England, and New Zealand. 172351 at http://www.straight.com/article-172351/pushing-new-territory Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:43:23 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-172351/pushing-new-territory#comments Arts http://www.straight.com/article-172341/tomorrow-collectives-11th-brief-encounters-showcase Tomorrow Collective’s 11th installment of the Brief Encounters showcase puts together six pairs of artists from diverse fields and gives them two weeks to create a short piece together. 172341 at http://www.straight.com/article-172341/tomorrow-collectives-11th-brief-encounters-showcase Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:15:47 -0800 http://www.straight.com/article-172341/tomorrow-collectives-11th-brief-encounters-showcase#comments Arts