The Nutcracker holds a special place in many dance hearts. It can be the first professional show for aspiring ballet students to appear on the big stage — usually as mice. And it’s also often the most available ballet production for families during the holidays. This year, Fawnda was joined by Soni Dasmohapatra and seven-year-old Niya for their first experience with Shumka’s Nutcracker. It was pretty magical, especially after 700+ days since the company had performed for public audiences.

Stay tuned to the end for a special preview of the next podcast project Fawnda and Soni are working on in 2022: Kathak, Hopak, Hip-hop.

We’re proud to be part of the Alberta Podcast Network. Thanks to this week’s sponsors: Park Power and Taproot Edmonton. 

Colleen and Fawnda take in a real, live show! Northern Light Theatre’s The Great Whorehouse Fire of 1921 is a delightful, socially-scorching two-hander by Linda Wood Edwards, played out with sass by Sue Huff and Twilla MacLeod. The show runs at the Varscona Theatre until Nov. 28.

I Don’t Get It is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network: Locally grown, community supported. 

Thanks to this episode’s sponsors: RÜMI and Taproot Edmonton.

Other bits:
BE Merry, Ballet Edmonton’s holiday show
Brian Webb Dance Company’s 43rd season announced
Jason Kenney’s Hotboy Summer extends its run
Shumka’s Nutcracker is coming Dec. 17-18

We’re back and fully vaxxed, baby! Colleen joins Fawnda on a trip to the Edmonton Expo Centre to catch the highly anticipated immersive exhibit, Imagine Van Gogh.

Imagine Van Gogh runs until September 5th.
Check out a dissection of how Van Gogh’s The Starry Night depicts turbulence.

Special thanks to our sponsors, RÜMI and Taproot Edmonton.

Happy new year? Paul, Fawnda, and return guest Colleen delve into Northern Light Theatre’s online presentation of The Look by Alexa Wyatt. Note: At the 12-minute mark, there is a brief description of the END of the show. Skip ahead a minute to avoid the spoiler.

Show notes:
• The Look presented by Northern Light Theatre runs until January 31
• The Situation We Find Ourselves In Is This runs for one night only on January 30. Free!
• Nathan Fillion provides the narration for a delightful new Virtual Forest Tour 
• Metro Cinema is running an online retrospective of the films of Wong Kar-Wai until February 19
• Tim Mikula continues to add to his collection of politico paintings at ABLegGitShop. All for sale, too. 
• Theatre Network is running a book club (for plays!)

We’re back! And a little rusty. But we’re here to warm the cockles of your isolated hearts with a chat about what it means for performing arts companies to lose their big-box, holiday cash cows this year.

We’re proud to be part of the Alberta Podcast Network. Locally grown, community supported. This week our sponsors are Edmonton Heritage Council’s ECAMP Podcast and Park Power.

Some reading:
• Dance Magazine: Land of the Bittersweet: COVID’s Effect on Nutcracker
• Sarah Kaufman in Washington Post: Breaking pointe: ‘The Nutcracker’ takes more than it gives to world of ballet
• New York Times: Toning Down Asian Stereotypes to Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Fit the Times
• Clips of the new, freaky versions of other Tchaikovsky classic ballets: Alexander Ekman’s A Swan Lake and Mats Ek’s Sleeping Beauty
• Stream local holiday shows like Citadel’s A Christmas Carol, Shumka’s Nutcracker, and Alberta Ballet’s A Sugar Plum Dream