Small Stage point 5

Dates: 12-15 February 2015
Location: Emerald Supper Club, Vancouver

Works by

Tariq Hussain , co-curator, Juno nominated songwriter, and Brasstronaut  member, with Chengxin Wei, feted dancer with Ballet BC for six seasons,  trained in classical Chinese dance;  

• Tarun ‘Tspoon’ Nayar, electronica DJ/producer, tabla player, and Delhi 2  Dublin member, and Scheherazaad Cooper, Canadian Odissi classical  Indian dancer whose latest work, BackStories, was recently presented at  London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre;  

• Mark Andrew Hamilton, Saatchi Gallery Music Prize recipient, Polaris Music  Prize nominee, and member of Woodpigeon, with Clarence Tang, award winning waaking and street dance artist;  

• Louise Burns, Polaris Music Prize and SOCAN Songwriting Prize nominated  singer-songwriter and Burgundy Brixx, Vancouver’s internationally renowned  queen of burlesque and producer of the wildly successful Kitty Nights  Burlesque;  

• Andrea Lo, lead singer of Vancouver’s hypnotic Dark-Pop group The Belle Game, with in-demand contemporary dance artist Karissa Barry who has worked with Wen Wei Wang, Amber Funk Barton, Joe Ink, and more.

“Small Stage point 5 deserves two thumbs up… there wasn’t a soul in the crowd who didn’t feel he or she’d been privy to something special.”

– The Georgia Straight