Picks of the week - May 9, 2012

 

 
 
 
 
The limber peeps at Ballet BC are at it again in all their stylish gaunch glory with Bliss, May 10 to 12 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Set to the music of Mozart and Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Song, the performance also features a reprisal of resident choreographer José Navas’ wordily named ballet The bliss that from their limbs all movement takes, set to a musical collaboration by Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar. Tickets at ticketmaster.ca. For more information, go to balletbc.com.
 

The limber peeps at Ballet BC are at it again in all their stylish gaunch glory with Bliss, May 10 to 12 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Set to the music of Mozart and Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Song, the performance also features a reprisal of resident choreographer José Navas’ wordily named ballet The bliss that from their limbs all movement takes, set to a musical collaboration by Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar. Tickets at ticketmaster.ca. For more information, go to balletbc.com.

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The limber peeps at Ballet BC are at it again in all their stylish gaunch glory with Bliss, May 10 to 12 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Set to the music of Mozart and Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Song, the performance also features a reprisal of resident choreographer José Navas’ wordily named ballet The bliss that from their limbs all movement takes, set to a musical collaboration by Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar. Tickets at ticketmaster.ca. For more information, go to balletbc.com.
 

The limber peeps at Ballet BC are at it again in all their stylish gaunch glory with Bliss, May 10 to 12 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Set to the music of Mozart and Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Song, the performance also features a reprisal of resident choreographer José Navas’ wordily named ballet The bliss that from their limbs all movement takes, set to a musical collaboration by Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar. Tickets at ticketmaster.ca. For more information, go to balletbc.com.

Photograph by: submitted , for Vancouver Courier

 
The limber peeps at Ballet BC are at it again in all their stylish gaunch glory with Bliss, May 10 to 12 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Set to the music of Mozart and Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Song, the performance also features a reprisal of resident choreographer José Navas’ wordily named ballet The bliss that from their limbs all movement takes, set to a musical collaboration by Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar. Tickets at ticketmaster.ca. For more information, go to balletbc.com.
South Asian Arts and Bollywood Shenanigans are dishing out another serving of live sketch comedy with I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Chicken!: The Fellowship of the Butter Chicken. See what all the fuss is about when Kulveer Taggar, Aga Postawska, Munish Sharma, Leena Manro, Sandhya Sharma and Kallol Mitra put a satirical spin on race, sex, diaspora, parental expectations and village life, May 9 to 12 at CBC’s Studio 700. Tickets at Main Video, Kamal’s Video or online at eventbrite.ca. More info at bollywoodshenanigans.com.
As part its monthly Incite series, the Vancouver International Writers Festival presents authors Linden MacIntyre and Vincent Lam, May 9, 7:30 p.m., at the Alice MacKay Room, Central Library, 350 W. Georgia St. MacIntyre will read from his new novel Why Men Lie, while Lam, author of the Giller prize-winning Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures,  reads from his new novel The Headmaster’s Wage. Seating is limited for the free event. To reserve, go to writersfest.bc.ca.
Fans of NPR’s This American Life, hosted by Ira Glass, know the spiel by now: each week the acclaimed, Award-winning radio program and podcast chooses a theme, and brings you several stories on that theme. This time, however, Glass and co. are performing the program live on stage in New York and beaming it into movie theatres across North America, including Vancouver’s International Village, May 10, 7 p.m. Glass will be joined by writers David Sedaris and David Rakoff, comic Tig Notaro and Snap Judgment host Glynn Washington, plus live music by OK Go, a new short film by Mike Birbiglia, dance by Monica Bill Barnes & Company, original animation, projected illustration and more. If you have a ticket, consider yourself lucky. This one’s sold out.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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