The boys are back in town! Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo return to Vancouver by popular demand. New York’s all-male ballerinas are back with more highbrow hilarity following 2015’s sold out, smash hit appearance.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
The sensational evening will see the all-male, cross-dressing troupe apply breathtaking technical prowess and rampant sauciness to a new batch of ridiculously re-interpreted classical ballets, including Swan Lake, La Esmeralda, and Don Quixote.
Photo by Sascha Vaughn
When: January 20 & 21, 2017 at 8:00pm
Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre (600 Block Hamilton St, Vancouver)
Tickets: $29 to $129 (plus applicable fees) online or by phone 1-877-840-0457
Founded by a group of professional dancers in 1974, the New-York based company is dedicated to presenting saucily skewered, lovingly crafted parodies of the beloved ballet classics.
Photo by Zoran Jelenic
Since its first performances, the company was recognized and lauded by audiences and esteemed critics alike, and began a grand tradition of international touring shortly thereafter. Today, Les Trocks have performed in more than 30 countries and 500 cities worldwide.
In the four decades since the company’s founding, the original concept of Les Trocks has not changed. The company of professional male dancers perform a full range of classical ballet and modern dance repertoire, with faithful and attentive detail paid to the manners and conceits of the various dance styles.
The ensemble’s legendary comedy emerges by incorporating and exaggerating the foibles, accidents, and underlying incongruities of serious dance. The fact that men dance all the parts – heavy bodies delicately balancing en pointe as swans, sylphs, water sprites, romantic princesses, and angst-ridden Victorian ladies – enhances, rather than mocks, the spirit of dance as an art form, delighting and amusing novice and knowledgeable audiences alike.
Win a VIP Experience
You have the chance to win a backstage VIP Make-Up Masterclass Package with dancers from Les Trocks on January 21st. The winner and their guest will get the chance to watch artists from the company transform during a make-up masterclass demonstration. The winner will also receive a meet & greet with company dancers, a VIP gift bag, and of course a pair of tickets to the performance on January 21st.
Here’s how you can enter to win:
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I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Monday, January 9, 2017. The VIP experience is for January 21, 2017 only. If the winner cannot attend, another name will be drawn.
Update The winner is Jen!
The annual No Pants SkyTrain Ride is coming up on January 8th presented by Improv Anywhere.
Credit: Francis Georgian o/b Improv Anywhere
No Pants SkyTrain Ride
When: Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 2:30pm (rain or shine)
Where: Meet up at the Commercial-Broadway Skytrain Station (South side, by ticket machines). Make sure you have valid fare. From there, the group will divide.
Since the first event in New York in 2002, the No Pants SkyTrain Ride coincides with an annual, global stunt that will see pants drop on mass transit in about 60 cities on the same day.
In Vancouver, the ride is organized by Improv Anywhere who has some very basic rules and instructions:
“Board the Skytrain. As soon as the doors shut, stand up and take your pants off and put them in your backpack. If anyone asks you why you’ve removed your pants, tell them that they were “getting uncomfortable” (or something along those lines).”
And the requirements are:
1) Willing to take pants off on the Skytrain.
2) Able to keep a straight face about it.
The mission is to make people laugh, not annoy them. The full route will be posted on the website and Facebook event page by Thursday January 5th.
After Party
Participants are invited to The Cannibal Café (1818 Commercial Dr) after the Skytrain Ride for a Burger and a beer Combo. Limited seating! First come, first served.
Follow @ImprovAnywhere on Twitter and the tag #NPSR for more information about the event and the after party.
The Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards are an annual awards ceremony and party produced by the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award Society to celebrate and promote the outstanding achievements of the Vancouver Professional Theatre Community. Miss604 has been the official blogger of the ceremony for the past few years and to kick off 2017, I’ve partnered with the Jessies to highlight what’s on stage in Vancouver each month.
January Theatre Listings for Vancouver
Arts Club Theatre Company
The Audience by Peter Morgan
Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage
January 26 to February 26, 2017
From Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher, through Tony Blair and right up to David Cameron, the Queen has held a weekly meeting, or “audience,” with each of her twelve prime ministers. Peter Morgan’s imaginary glimpses into these tête-à-têtes provide a droll and fascinating portrayal of a lioness of history—one who, over the span of six decades, transforms from an uncertain young monarch into the revered figurehead of today.
Bleeding Heart Theatre
The Fighting Season by Sean Harris Oliver
Vancity Culture Lab at The Cultch
January 11 to 21, 2017
Based on his father’s real life experiences as a doctor in Afghanistan, Sean Harris Oliver’s new play The Fighting Season investigates Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan through the eyes of the medical personnel who served for our country abroad.
Up In The Air Theatre & The Only Animal Theatre
The City and The City by Jason Patrick Rothery
The Russian Hall
January 26 to February 5, 2017
Adapted from author China Miéville’s multi-award winning novel, The City and The City is a highly participatory theatrical experience; equal parts dystopic science fiction, film noir, and murder mystery. Using emergent audio technology, the audience receives clues for actions, text and characterization to bring the story to life in real time.
Redcurrant Collective
The Nether by Jennifer Haley
Firehall Arts Centre
January 18 to January 28, 2017
The Nether made its Vancouver premiere at this year’s Fringe Festival and was a favourite amongst critics. A detective story that explores the nature of virtual realms, fantasy and morality. Written by Jennifer Haley, The Nether is complex and darkly intriguing.
Follow the Jessies on Facebook and Twitter for more information about theatre in Vancouver.
The second annual Women in Tech Week takes place February 27-March 3 across Canada, bringing together local tech communities across Canada to recognize the contributions women have made in the tech industry and highlighting opportunities to engage women and youth in the future.
Women in Tech Week
Through a series of live and online events, organizers anticipate over 3,000 participants with major events held in Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, with new satellite events in New York and San Francisco.
Vancouver Event
To promote and bring awareness to Women in Tech Week, Vancouver’s Women in Leadership Foundation will be hosting an evening mixer. This event will feature a Q&A session with Eva Taylor, campaign director of VIVA Lifestyle & Travel. Chief of staff of VIVA Lifestyle & Travel, Elena Yugai, will moderate the session.
When: Tuesday, January 17th, 2017 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Where: BrainStation (#410 – 1110 Hamilton St, Vancouver)
Tickets: Available online for $15
For more information about this preview event, and to get involved with the upcoming Women in Tech Week, follow WINtech on Facebook and Twitter.
A new year has been rung in and while we look ahead to what 2017 might bring, here’s a glimpse at the past to see what our city was like back in 1917.
Vancouver in 1917
Thanks to the late, great Chuck Davis for his History of Metropolitan Vancouver that was used as a reference.
January 1, 1917 The Workmen’s Compensation Act of British Columbia took effect.
April 4, 1917 Women (excluding those of First Nations and Asian decent) could now vote in BC.
April 1917, The Japanese-Canadian WWI monument was erected in Stanley Park. Out of 196 local Japanese who volunteered, 145 were killed or wounded. One of those volunteers, Sgt. Masumi Mitsui, led his men in a gallant advance up Vimy Ridge in April 1917 and was awarded the Military Medal for Bravery.
Japanese-Canadian WWI memorial by Stuart Thomson. Archives# CVA 99-2420
June 17, 1917 The Pantages Theatre opened opened at 20 West Hastings, and was proclaimed one of the continent’s best vaudeville houses.
October 1, 1917 Prohibition began in Canada. It would end October 20, 1920.
Also in 1917…
Lonsdale, North Vancouver by W.J. Moore. Archives# PAN N172.
Scottish Stonemason Jimmy Cunningham began building what would become the Stanley Park Seawall.
The Woodward’s Food Floor in Vancouver has become the largest in the world under one roof.
The salmon run on the Fraser this year was down badly this year because of a 1913 slide that blocked the river. The Fraser’s cannery industry was badly affected, and many canneries closed.
The Vancouver Fire Department became fully motorized, the first major city in Canada and possibly the continent to become so, many years ahead of other large cities.
Read more Vancouver History here »…
