The Portfolio
Creative Event Solutions
Wideyed Cabaret
July 2009, TransAlta Arts Barns
Curated by Catch the Keys Productions, the Wideyed Cabaret was an under-the-gun approach to raw creation, showcasing the spontaneous celebration of dance, music, art, theatre, life and fun! Inspired by Vancouver’s The Tomorrow Collective Brief Encounters, The Wideyed Cabaret paired passionate professionals and daring performance artists to produce a celebration of the awesome, the bizarre, the entertaining and the beautiful together in one explosive multi-disciplinary encounter.
Big Rock Eddies
June 2009, TransAlta Arts Barns
Catch the Keys was proud to provide a gaggle of preposterous paparazzi for the Big Rock Eddies in Edmonton on June 8. “Are the rumours true? Who are you wearing tonight? OMG - it’s him!”
Special thanks to performers Ryland Alexander, Kristi Hansen, Mary Hulbert and Darren Paul, Cracked Pepper Events and Fringe Theatre Adventures.
Spark a Revolution
March 2009, TransAlta Arts Barns
A spark. A flame. A fire.
Fuel the Revolution! Edmonton’s emerging arts community provided a high-energy evening of non-stop entertainment. A fundraising event showcasing original entertainment by more than 100 members of Edmonton’s daring emerging artist community, proceeds from Spark a Revolution support Fringe Theatre Adventures’ Edmonton International Fringe Festival.
NextFest NiteClubs
The ARTery, June 2008 & 2009
Curated by Catch the Keys Productions, the NextFest NiteClubs are a series of late-night, multi-disciplinary performance parties. Each NiteClub has a completely distinct flavour so you’ll never experience the same thing twice. This past two years, the NiteClubs have taken place at Edmonton’s sexiest downtown location, theARTery (9535 Jasper Avenue), where you’ll be entertained and entertaining as you mix, mingle and absorb the atmosphere and art.
Stage Works
The Kitchen Sink Project
2010
In our every day, women play a variety of different roles: we are sister, mother, daughter, grandmother, career woman, caregiver, lover, wife, friend, enemy; the expectations tied to each role define us, make us stronger, build us up, tear us down, bring us home.
In response to kitchen sink realism – a cultural movement born of the 1960’s depicting social realism often focusing on working class men – The Kitchen Sink Project will be a collection of stories inspired by real women.
Due to find the stage in 2010.
Art on Art
NextFest, June 2008 & Indie5, May 2009
An image captures the beauty of dark and light and a song leaps from canvas to lips. Invoking an electrometric backslide of bursting notes, trance beats are translated into linguistic feats. Image begets inspiration, inspiration begets music, music begets story, story begets movement – and so continues the revolution of creative process. This is an experiment.
A series of commissioned thematic photos taken by Vancouver’s Sheena Caddick were provided to musician Andrew Smith of the electric arc, who created a musical score inspired by the story of the photos. The music was then given to Catch the Keys Productions Resident Playwright Megan Dart. Having not seen the photos, Megan wrote a script. The script, as directed by Artistic Director Beth Dart and brought to life by the collaborative acting talents of Stuart Hoye, Nicole Marie Schafenacker, and Nikolai Witschl yields a beautifully lyrical movement piece which explores the improbable logic of romantic love.
Dead Centre of Town
Various Locations, annually in October
Dead Centre of Town is an annual interactive Halloween experience that digs up and dances with the dusty bones of the sadly forgotten history of downtown Edmonton. Stay tuned for upcoming show details.
The Revolution
University of Alberta, January 2007
Part of an experimental thesis project, The Revolution was catapulted by a supportive collective of people dedicated to one cause and one movement. Through an intricate network of interconnected creative strengths, The Revolution showcased the might of the creative cooperative through the culmination of the visual, the audio, the heart, the experience.
Exploring simultaneous creation of live art, The Revolution was an intensification of dependent artistic modes through creative change: the birth of spontaneous theatre and art and music.
