LIVE ACTS Vol.1
a festival of BFA capstone projects in performance
November 4 – 6, 2021 | Studio D, T, & elsewhere in Vancouver
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Show-specific RSVP links below ~
An apocalyptic fungi cult
A domestic archive of personal relics
A reenactment of courtroom hysteria
A séance for imagined futures
A confrontational act of exhibitionism
A durational activity for male intimacy
A work on the comfort of water
A Greek tragedy on feminine rage
A processed dissection
An answer
A gift
With Hassan Babar, Claire Brown, Rebecca Kabesh, Megan Lane, Brittany Martyshuk, Eve Middleton-Meyer, Haylee Turner, Samantha Walters, Sterling Weran, Liam Wilkins, Jordyn Wood, and Alexander Zavorotny.
Note: as per the provincial health mandate, performers will be masked except if they are able to maintain appropriate physical distancing.
Schedule
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4
- GCA Second Floor
6:30 PM / Jordyn Wood, MEDEA (STUDIO D) | RSVP HERE
8:00 PM / Sterling Weran, Brotherhood (STUDIO T) | RSVP HERE
All Night / Haylee Turner, The Giving Project (STUDIO T LOBBY)
- GCA Fourth Floor
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM* / Alexander Zavorotny, A Friend of a Friend (GCA 4325-55; GCA 4350) | RSVP HERE
*20 minute viewings per household group.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5
- GCA Second Floor
6:00 PM / Eve Middleton-Meyer, Are You Watching? (Streamed online from GCA 4210) | RSVP HERE
7:00 PM / Claire Brown, Water Park (STUDIO D) | RSVP HERE
8:00 PM / Hassan Babar, Amalgamation (STUDIO T) | RSVP HERE
All Night / Haylee Turner, The Giving Project (STUDIO T LOBBY)
- GCA Fourth Floor
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM* / Alexander Zavorotny, A Friend of a Friend (GCA 4325-55; GCA 4350) | RSVP HERE
*20 minute viewings per household group.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6
- GCA Second Floor
6:00 PM / Rebecca Kabesh, Re-Trials: Bewitching Innocence (STUDIO T) | RSVP HERE
7:00 PM / Samantha Walters, Order of the New Hyphae (STUDIO D) | RSVP HERE
8:00 PM / Megan Lane & Liam Wilkins, Recollectives (STUDIO T) | RSVP HERE
All Night / Haylee Turner, The Giving Project (STUDIO T LOBBY)
- GCA Fourth Floor
3:00 PM / Brittany Martyshuk, What do you want? (GCA 4210)
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM* / Alexander Zavorotny, A Friend of a Friend (GCA 4325-55; GCA 4350) | RSVP HERE
*20 minute viewings per household group.
2021 BFA Performance Capstone Projects
Hassan Babar, Amalgamation
With Zack Faulks
Amalgamation is a live devised theatre piece that follows a series of vignettes that take us on a journey while investigating and dissecting narratives.
Please note: This show contains strobe lighting. This show will be recorded, shots of audience members may be used for archival purposes and future online viewings.
Claire Brown, Water Park
With Jaeda Gonzales, Ruby Maher, Aisha Wewala, & Alexander-Bird Zavarotny
Stage Manager: Sydney Bevilacqua
Water Park is a collaborative devised piece that explores the comfort and relief given to us over the pandemic by water and catering to our inner child; we hope to give that same comfort and relief to you using sculpture, projection, and musical performance.
Rebecca Kabesh, Re-Trials: Bewitching Innocence
With Zack Faulks, Lauren Han, Tess Larsen, Sonja Tan, & Haylee Turner
Stage Manager: Yuhang Sun
Lighting Designer: Joy WU
Re-Trials: Bewitching Innocence is a live, process reenactment performance that uses historical investigation, shadow projections, and courtroom chaos to educate, edit, and elevate a historical narrative.
Please note: This show features a criminal trial structure, visual and verbal depictions of public executions by hanging, and references to slavery
Brittany Martyshuk, What do you want?
Stage Manager: Breanne Birk
What do you want? is a devised solo piece, attempting to answer the question of "what does the world need more of right now?"
Eve Middleton-Meyer, Are You Watching?
With Alexa Fraser (they/them), Kate Long (she/they), Nina Mosall (she/her), Cassandra (Cazz) Williams (she/they), Jack Strudwick (he/him), Rosemary Morrison (she/her)
Stage Manager: Brittany Martyshuk
Are You Watching? is a live-streamed collaborative devised piece that uses voyeurism and exhibitionism as performance to confront stigmas around gender, sex, and sex work.
The following piece is intended for adult audiences 18+ only. It contains sexual and explicit content, nudity/pornographic images, and strong language.
Haylee Turner, The Giving Project
With Rebecca Kabesh, Tessa Turner, Samantha Walters
Stage Manager: Brittany Martyshuk
The Giving Project is an individualized, durational piece focusing on the creation of curated experiences, or a "gift,” for the participants through storytelling, listening, and the structure of immersive theatre.
Samantha Walters, Order of the New Hyphae
With Avery Chapman, Blake Hobson-Dimas, Clare Noble, Denise Faith Cachero, Tamlin Vetter, Viviane Wu
Stage Manager: Lava Xu
Order of the New Hyphae is an immersive devised performance that seeks to reconstruct ecological thought and posthuman spiritualities through the lens of an apocalyptic fungi cult.
Please note: Order of the New Hyphae features an additional site-specific outdoor performance happening on the same day at 4:30pm. It is taking place at a public park about a 20 minutes skytrain ride away from the SCA. The trail down to the performance site is potentially muddy and inaccessible by wheelchair. This additional performance is not mandatory to attend alongside the studio performance but constitutes another 'phase' of the project.
For more information, accessibility questions, and to RSVP to the outdoor performance, please contact asamanthawalters@gmail.com directly.
Sterling Weran, Brotherhood
With Brett Hubich & Lachlan Harris-Fiesel
Stage Manager: Leo Chang
Lighting Designer: Joy WU
Brotherhood is a black box performance that contains durational exhaustive activity and movement to ask where one finds brotherhood, and create dialogue around the intimate relationships that men experience between each other.
Liam Wilkins & Megan Lane, Recollectives
Stage Manager: Georgia Turner
Recollectives is an immersive dream gallery where fragmentary passages lead an audience through collective remembering. Utilizing personal relics, immersive audio, and inexact interpretation, dormant memories are activated, blended together and remembered anew.
Jordyn Wood, MEDEA
With Katie Gherasim, Samantha Li, Ismael Ndiaye, Tanaz Roudgar, Cynthia Su, Marlowe Wilder McMahon
Costume Design: Claire Brown
Stage Manager: Jela Ahn
MEDEA is an adaptation of the ancient Greek tragedy that utilizes live cinema & shadow casting (a form popularized by the Rocky Horror Picture Show) to explore catharsis, feminine rage, and the temporal relationships between the classic and the contemporary.
Alexander Zavorotny, A Friend of a Friend
With Avery Chapman, Brooklyn Fowler, Samantha Li, Terris Tan, Brett Hubich
Dramaturge: Jordyn Wood
Stage Manager: Yvonne Liang
A Friend of a Friend is an installation piece that utilizes social practice, thing power, and trash to create a seance for imagined futures through free and found objects.
Please note: A Friend of a Friend contains depictions of alcohol usage, bright lights, loud music, and some strong language. The minimum age to attend this performance is 12 years old.
Live Acts Production Team
Directors: Jessica Chambers (Lecturer, Production & Design), Kyla Gardiner (Assistant Professor, Production & Design), and Ryan Tacata (Assistant Professor, Performance)
Production Coordinator: Gillian Hanemayer
Production Manager: Alex Clancy
Assistant Production Manager: Ali McDougall
Studio D Venue Stage Manager: Bernice Paet
Studio D Projection Operator: Jenny Min
Studio D Sound Operator: Jammi Sze
Studio D Lighting Operator: Theo Ewanchook
Studio T Venue Stage Manager: Gabriella Hu
Studio T Lighting Operator: Colleen Bayati
Studio T Sound Operator: Georgia Turner
Graduate Assistants: Torien Cafferata and Emira Ugun
