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Created and produced by Boca del Lupo, Electric Company, Felix Culpa, Leaky Heaven Circus, neworldtheatre, the Only Animal, Radix, Rumble Productions, Theatre Replacement, Theatre SKAM, and Western Theatre Conspiracy.

HIVE 1 took place in the alleys and premises of an old downtown east side funeral home where Jay Dodge and Sherry J Yoon created a performance for two experience inside an alley dumpster. Performed by Hazel Venson, this delicate production is likened to an antique music box and was a tribute to the missing women of the downtown eastside.

HIVE 2 was a commission of Canada’s national theatre festival, Magnetic North and performed in the vast diesel repair bays of the old Finning site now know as the Great Northern Way Campus. Here again, Sherry J Yoon and Jay Dodge built a large forced perspective shaft that thrust 25 feet into the air yet looked like 50. The audience viewed the piece from below, laying on their backs and looking through a Plexiglas floor. This piece examined how experience and prejudice impact on narrative as performers Tanya Podlozniuk and Pernelli Parnes carried out a repeating choreography changing only their costumes and the role of the aggressor.

Will there be a HIVE 3?

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