Cluster 3: March 8-10, 2012
Shifting Signs
Thursday, March 8, 2012, 8pm
Rachel Browne Theatre
204-211 Bannatyne Avenue [map]
Three lost souls sit alone in a park at night and debate solar speed, shifting signs, and supper plans. Cluster 2012 opens with an excerpt from Luke Nickel’s Ophiuchus Rising, a darkly humorous foray into the paranoia surrounding the January 2011 horoscope-changing scare paired with prophetical Youtube videos decrying the end of the world. Montreal duo Electric Noise present a captivating array of new works exploring identity, eroticism, and modes of listening.
No Masque for Good Measure
Friday, March 9, 2012, 8pm
Eckhardt Hall, Winnipeg Art Gallery
300 Memorial Boulevard [map]
Three drag queens rehearse for a wedding masque, resulting in a whirlwind of gender-bending comedy, confusion, and damned fine singing. No Masque for Good Measure is Matthew Ricketts’s exquisite first foray into opera, commissioned by Cluster, and produced by London-based conductor Kelly Lovelady. The work takes the form of a rehearsal, breaking down the third, fourth and fabulous walls in the glorious space and splendor of the WAG’s atrium.
After The Outing
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 8pm
Exchange Community Church
75 Albert Street [map]
A is for Amy who fell down the stairs… Cluster’s finale features a PAZZIA collective production of Heidi Ouellette’s infamous opera, ‘The Gashlycrumb Tinies’. In this interdisciplinary ensemble work, twenty six deaths and a funeral dirge make for a delightfully macabre and cautionary frenzy of grisly allegory. The evening culminates in a dark dance party where you can let out some of your pent up paranoia, audio: DJ e-Bison / visuals: jaymez.
Guest Artists
+ Krista Martynes
+ Jennifer Thiessen
+ Marc Wieser
Guest Composers
Matthew Ricketts
Zosha di Castri
Taylor Brook
Tickets
McNally Robinson Booksellers
(Grant Park Mall) [map]
(204) 475-0483
Cluster Festival
(204) 223-9939
info@clusterfestival.com
and at the door
Adult – $15
Adult pass – $40
Artists + Performers
- Nelson Bettencourt
- Taylor Brook
- Zosha di Castri
- CCCP
- e-Bison
- Electric Noise
- Beth Hamilton
- Aaron Hutton
- jaymez
- Keith Kirchoff
- Sarah Kirsch
- Kelly Lovelady
- Krista Martynes
- Miss Lyndsay Ladobruk
- Caroline Markos
- Krista Martynes
- Solomiya Moroz
- Claire Morrison
- Olga Neuwirth
- Luke Nickel
- Heidi Ouellette
- PAZZIA Collective
- Daniel Peloquin-Hopfner
- Matthew Ricketts
- Lauren J. Rogener
- Smoke and Mirrors
- Victoria Sparks
- Jeff Stonehouse
- Jacob David Sudol
- Thierry Tidrow
- Jennifer Thiessen
- TRIO ’86
- Cathie Ugrin
- Susan Watkins
- Andrea Von Wichert
- Ellen Wieser
- Marc Wieser
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