House of X (Presented by Neanderthal Arts Festival and Wild Excursions Performance) #yvrdance #yvrtheatre

I find it amazing when artistic folks are able to seamlessly meld theatre with dance, and it looks as though House of X (presented by the Neanderthal Arts Festival and Wild Excursions Performance) will be one of these unique pieces worth checking out.

A physical theatre piece that explores our addiction to the various genres of storytelling— tragedy, comedy, melodrama, horror, fairy tale— and suggests that we make up stories from what is going on all around us, as well as in our imaginations.

Directed and choreographed by Conrad Alexandrowicz. Featuring Sebastian Kroon, Jane Osborne, Linda Quibell and Crystal Verge, at The CULTCH: Historic theatre (1895 Venables), from July 19 to 28, 2012. Seven shows only: July 19 (7 pm), July 21 (6 pm), July 22 (8:30 pm, pay what you can performance), July 25 (8:45 pm), July 26 (7 pm), July 27 (9:30 pm) and July 28 (7 pm). Tickets: only $14 for single tickets: Up In the Air Theatre or Neanderthal Arts Festival.

Up in the Air Theatre proudly presents The Neanderthal Arts Festival, featuring new cutting edge work by emerging and established artists. Are you ready for a challenge? House of X is a physical theatre piece devised, directed and choreographed by Wild Excursions founder Conrad Alexandrowicz, one of Canada’s pioneer dance-theatre crossover artists. At once funny, disturbing and mysterious, it incorporates texts by Erin Mouré, one of the country’s best-known experimental poets, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Through movement, gesture, invented speech and poetry that is like incantation, the piece explores an artist’s drive to tell stories that may or may not be derived from her own experience, and that reveals storytelling as a collective addiction. Autobiography collides with archetypal characters from myth and fairy tale in a work that suggests that theatre is going on all around us, as well as in our imaginations.

This sounds like an interesting and intriguing exploration.