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Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret nurtures roots in community

East Van theatre collective gets ready for its close-up

BY JENNY PENG

Outside Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret’s studio, groups of strangers chitchat and exchange curious gazes before their audition with artistic director Kat Single-Dain.

None of the 15 women knows what to expect except for an online clipping in The Dusty Flowerpot Gazette announcing an upcoming production in May at the Russian Hall. In classic Dusty Flowerpot fashion, the show counts on everyone to pitch in, inviting audience members to attend the filming of the 1955 musical extravaganza The Queen of Mercy.

Single-Dain, one of the collective’s founding members, gets to work bouncing to 1930s jazz. The dancers dive into vintage footwork, tapping and swinging while SingleDain scouts for candidates with crisp coordination and a dash of playfulness.

at “dust storms” where the curating committee examines which project to endorse based on its community engagement mandate.

The sequences are a walk down memory lane for SingleDain who watched Fred Astaire musicals while her friends were busy with the Backstreet Boys.

True to the collective’s focus on community engagement, she insists everyone at the audition will have a part.

The birth of Dusty Flowerpot dates back to 2006 when a group of artists assembled in painter Jordan Bent’s Keefer Street studio to discuss putting on a show for the Ayden Gallery. But when the gallery decided to pull out of the show, the artists decided to continue and mount The Valley of Ashes about a boy on a quest to grow the flowerpot strapped to his back.

The momentum from the first show snowballed into subsequent productions such as 2011’s Hard Times Hit Parade. Set in the 1930s, the “theatrical dance marathon” was adapted from a screenplay written by SingleDain about dance marathons

In true Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret fashion, the East Vancouver theatre collectiveÕs upcoming production takes place on a movie set for a 1955 musical. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

during the Depression. With the help of designer and builder Brodie Kitchen, the Russian Hall was transformed into a 1930s dance hall with custom-built wooden bleachers lining the perimeter of the venue.

With roughly 15 core members, the cabaret swells and contracts with new and old talents. For the first few shows, rehearsal space was temporary. The

Valley of Ashes was produced entirely out of community centres, recalls Single-Dain.

The troupe settled this December at its new rehearsal theatre in Mount Pleasant under a 10-year lease with the city. Having a place to store props and costumes means more play time and “popcorning” sessions where they experiment and brainstorm. The kernels of ideas are then submitted

Audience participation has become a signature in the cabaret’s shows. For most of the core members, it’s an extension of their clown training with David MacMurray Smith at Fantastic Space Enterprise. But it’s not clowning as one would expect, explains actor Alastair Knowles. Clown school teaches students how to connect with the audience by being spontaneous and incorporating them in dialogue.

Its rootedness in community is what distinguishes Dusty Flowerpot from the Vancouver theatre scene said Knowles.

“I don’t see the Dusty Flowerpot engaging in the theatre dialogue as much as we engage in the community outreach and community theatre things. The festivals we produce are very theatrical and they involve the community in a very large extent.”

Despite the consensus on audience participation, the genres and aesthetics of the Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret’s past performances are as eclectic as the ensemble that makes up the collective. Every show is a blend of the artists’ skills and vision, from storytelling and pantomime, to live music, videos, dance and puppetry.

“It’s an anarchist process,” said actor and writer Amber McIntyre-Byatt. “It’s as big as a Broadway show in a way but it’s not perfect in that there can never be a mistake. That’s way more thrilling.”

Whether it’s a dance marathon or a movie set, Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret is open to using any medium that makes sense for the production and creates an immersive world for the audience says Single-Dain, who compares the bygone quality of their shows to George Lucas’s Star Wars films.

“It’s in a future time but you feel like it’s in the past because there’s a sense of history.”

For details, go to dustyflowerpotcabaret.com.

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8 pm | Friday, March 20, 2015 Ryerson United Church (Kerrisdale) Vancouver Chamber Choir | Pacifica Singers, Kevin Zakresky, conductor Jon Washburn, conductor Choral Mosaic is a star-studded programme of a cappella masterworks, with great variety and many moods. Featured is Jon Washburn and the Vancouver Chamber Choir – with special guests Kevin Zakresky and the Pacifica Singers – in music of Britten, Brahms, Allegri, Whitacre, Berkey, Vaughan Williams, Washburn and Chatman!

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Obaaberima March 24-April 4 The Duchess a.k.a.

Wallis Simpson April 7-18 Foreign Radical: a game of secrets April 16-25 Stationary: a recessionera musical April 21-May 2 The Sensationalist May 12-16 rEvolver Theatre Festival May 20-31 YORK THEATRE 639 Commercial Dr., 604-251-1363, thecultch.com Famous Puppet Death Scenes March 31-April 19 ARTS CLUB THEATRE 604-687-1644, artsclub.com Sister Judy until March 21 at Revue Stage on Granville Island The Mountaintop until March 14 at the Granville Island Stage

Farewell, My Lovely April 2-May 2 at the Granville Island Stage In the Heights April 30-June 7 at the Stanley Alliance Industrial Stage CHUTZPAH! FESTIVAL chutzpahfestival.com What YouÕre Missing March 10-15, Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre PI THEATRE Granville Island Performance Works, pitheatre.com Blasted April 10-25 JAMES & JAMESEY Jericho Arts Centre, 1675 Discovery St., jerichoartscentre.com High Tea May 18-24 ITSAZOO PRODUCTIONS Renegade Studio’s Shop Theatre 125 East 2nd Ave., itsazoo.org The Competition is Fierce until March 22 PACIFIC THEATRE 1440 West 12th Ave., 604-731-5518, pacifictheatre.org The Whipping Man until March 21

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FreudÕs Last Session April 24-May 30 FIREHALL ARTS CENTRE 280 East Cordova St., 604-689-0926, firehallartscentre.ca Ribcage: This Wide Passage until March 8 Proud April 7-25 BC Buds Festival May 6-10 God & The Indian May 20-30 GATEWAY THEATRE 6500 Gilbert Rd., Richmond, 604-270-1812, gatewaytheatre.com Miss Caledonia until March 14 Rodgers and Hammerstein: Out of a Dream April 9-25 METRO THEATRE 1370 Southwest Marine Dr., 604-266-7191, metrotheatre.com Pride and Prejudice until March 7 Go Back for Murder March 21-April 18 THEATRE FOR LIVING Firehall Arts Centre Maladjusted March 21

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EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER earlymusic.bc.ca, 604-822-2697 Beethoven: The Complete Works for Cello and Keyboard at the Vancouver Playhouse March 13, 14, 15 La Reveuse: Songs of an English Cavalier Orpheum Annex, March 27 PACIFIC BAROQUE ORCHESTRA 843 Seymour St., pacificbaroque.com Wassermusik April 18

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VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY Vancouver Playhouse, vanrecital.com, 604-602-0363 Steven Isserlis, cello Robert Levin fortepiano March 13, 14, 15 Yun-Chin Zhou, piano March 22 Joseph Moog, piano April 12 Ian Bostridge, tenor and Wenwen Du, piano April 15 Paul Lewis, piano May 3

Classical Traditions: Beethoven, Shostakovich, Haydn; Jeffrey Kahane, leader/piano April 24, 25 Prokofiev, Mendelssohn, Strauss; Karen Gomyo, violin May 29, 30 (all at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts)

VETTA CHAMBER MUSIC West Point Grey United Church, 4595 West Eighth Ave., vettamusic.com Concert Four: Hayden, Schumann, Beethoven March 26-27 Concert Five: Rossini, Moszkowski, Sarasate, Schubert May 21-22

SALISH SEA EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL Ryerson United Church, 2195 West 45th Ave., March 10, March 25, May 20

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VANCOUVER CHAMBER CHOIR vancouverchamberchoir.com CHORAL MOSAIC The Joy of Song March 20, Ryerson United Church

FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC Vancouver Playhouse, 600 Hamilton St., friendsofchambermusic.ca Octagon March 24 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center April 14

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CONCERTS THE ROGUE FOLK CLUB St. James Hall, 3214 West 10th Ave., 604-736-3022, roguefolk.bc.ca Matuto March 8

The Arrogant Worms March 13 The Sweet Lowdown March 20 April in Paris: Gypsy Jazz Festival April 24-26 CHAN CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS 604-822-6297, chancentre.com Zakir HussainÕs Celtic Connections March 21 Gilberto Gil April 12 Lila Downs April 26 VivaldiÕs The Four Seasons May 1 Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet May 9 PACIFIC BLUEGRASS & HERITAGE SOCIETY Anza Club, 604-617-9645 or tickets at the door.

The Foggy Hogtown Boys in Concert March 16 FRASER MACPHERSON JAZZ FUND H.R. Macmillan Planetarium 1100 Chestnut St., eventbrite.ca Fraser MacPherson ÒLive at the PlanetariumÓ March 20

THE ELECTRIC OWL 928 Main. St., 604-558-0928 White Noise featuring Figgy March 13 Shred Kelly March 14 Hurray for Riff Raff March 21 Quantic March 27 THE RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 East Hastings St., rickshawtheatre.ca FlaminÕ Groovies, Bum, Rich Hope and His Evil Doers March 14 The Cave Singers, Kathryn Calder March 20 The Real McKenzies April 11 Reverend Horton Heat May 22 THE BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward St., biltmorecabaret.com The Twilight Sad March 8 The White Buffalo March 24 Mac Demarco April 25 Waxahatchee May 2 Howard Jones May 8

Impulse Morna Edmundson, Artistic Director

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Saturday, March 14, 2015 7:30pm Ryerson United Church

2205 West 45th Avenue and Yew Street, Vancouver Tickets: $28 Regular | $22 Senior | $15 Student (with valid ID)

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SPRING 2015 CELTICFEST Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird

VENUE 881 Granville St., venuelive.ca Anti-Flag March 13 Anvil March 22 Ting Tings March 28 Guster March 29 Mark Kozelek April 11 ROGERS ARENA rogersarena.com Bob Seger March 7 Nickelback March 15 Maroon 5 March 29 Fleetwood Mac April 4 Ariana Grande April 16

VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville St., voguetheatre. com, 604-569-1144 Big Sugar March 7 Dan Mangan and Blacksmith March 13-14 Amanda Palmer and Friends from TED March 18.

Shane Koyczan March 28 Belle and Sebastian April 8 Neko Case April 15 Mac DeMarco April 24 The Jesus and Mary Chain May 13 The War on Drugs May 24 Mariachi Festival May 30 MALKIN BOWL Stanley Park, malkinbowl.com Spoon with Future Islands May 24

THE COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville St., commodoreballroom.com Spirit of the West March 14 The Gaslight Anthem March 19 OK Go March 25 Motown Meltdown March 28 The Cat Empire April 3-4 Kaiser Chiefs April 21 Sleater-Kinney May 6 Jungle May 21 Father John Misty May 24 THE IMPERIAL 319 Main St. Twin Shadow April 24 Jose Gonzalez April 25 Real Estate and Woods May 22

Def Leppard April 18 New Kids on the Block May 5 Neil Diamond May 7 U2 May 14-15 CARAVAN WORLD RHYTHMS caravanbc.com GHAZAL Kayhan Kalhor & Shujaat Khan March 13, Kay Meek Centre VIEUX FARKA TOURƒ April 18, Fortune Sound Club

THE FOX CABARET 2321 Main St., foxcabaret.com Naomi Punk and PC Worship March 7 Twerps with the Shilohs April 3 Pete Rock and Slum Village April 3 Lemon Bucket Orkestra April 11

SPECIAL/ OTHER VANCOUVER UKULELE FESTIVAL The Croatian Cultural Centre, eventbrite.ca Ukulele Bootcamp, Songwriting Ukulele style, Left Hand Embellishments and more March 6-8 RICKSHAW THEATRE 245 E. Hastings, 604-681-8915 rickshawtheatre.com Music Heals Benefit March 7 VANCOUVER CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL vcbf.ca, 604-257-8120 Sakura Night, Cherry Jam Downtown Concert, Sakura Illumination, Kite Dance and more April 2-29.

CELTICFEST VANCOUVER celticfestvancouver.com, 604-736-4939 The Weir, CelticFest Chilideh and more March 6-17

FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 East Pender, fortunesoundclub.com The Dodos March 12.

The Tourist Company March 27 Yelle April 25 CELTICFEST Alan Doyle

VANCOUVER WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL Imperial 319 Main St., ticketweb.ca Kutapira, Haram, Locarno and Tambura Rosa April 3

Fauré Requiem

The Good Friday Concert

8 pm | Friday, April 3, 2015 Orpheum Theatre

Vancouver Chamber Choir | Pacifica Singers | Vancouver Youth Choir Vancouver Chamber Orchestra | Jon Washburn, conductor Our annual Good Friday concert highlights the Romantic masterpiece Fauré Requiem and two very special Baroque works – the touching Seven Last Words of Heinrich Schütz and the tragic Jephtha’s Daughter by Italian master Giacomo Carissimi.

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VANCOUVER POLICE MUSEUM 240 East Cordova St., Vancouver, 604-665-3346, vancouverpolicemuseum.ca Movie in the Morgue recurring monthly on the Second Tuesday Forensic Science under the Microscope recurring weekly on Thursdays

VANCOUVER MARITIME MUSEUM 1905 Ogden Ave., 604-257-8300, vancouvermaritimemuseum.com Ships and the Sea until April 5 Creature Comforts: the Royal Canadian Navy on Our Coast

THE CINEMATIQUE 200-1131 Howe St., 604-688-8202, thecinematique.ca The Image Before Us: A History of Film in British Columbia until April 30

DOXA DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL doxafestival.ca April 30-May 10

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RAILWAY CLUB 578 Dunsmuir St., 604-681-1625, sinpeaks.ca Game of Sin March 18

JUST FOR LAUGHS PRESENTS MARC MARON Vogue Theatre, 918 Granville St., voguetheatre.com, 604-569-1144 May 9

CHILDREN/ FAMILY SCIENCE WORLD 1455 Quebec St., 604-443-7440, scienceworld.ca Animation until April 26 CAROUSEL THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 604-685-6217, carousaltheatre.ca Shakespearean Rhapsody until March 29 at the Waterfront Theatre CIRQUE DU SOLEIL cirquedusoleil.com/varekai Varekai May 20-24 at Pacific Coliseum PLAYDOME BC Place, 777 Pacific Blvd.

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VANCOUVER AQUARIUM MARINE SCIENCE CENTRE 845 Avison Way, 604-659-3474 Sea Monsters Revealed until Sept. 7 VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Orpheum Theatre, 604-876-3434, vancouversymphony.ca Kids Concert: Inspector Tovey Meets Mozart April 19 Classical Kids: Beethoven Lives Upstairs May 17 BEAUMONT STUDIOS 315 West Fifth Ave., 604-733-3783, beaumontstudios.com Kids Spring Break March 9-20 GOTTA SING! GOTTA DANCE! jccgv.com July 7-30 August 4-27, Jewish Community Centre

THE COMEDY MIX Century Plaza Hotel on Burrard, 604-684-5050, thecomedymix.com Phil Hanley March 12-14 Jamie Lee March 26-28 Darcy Michael April 2-4 Tom Rhodes April 9-11

LUX LOUNGE 1180 Howe St., 604-559-5533, luxlounge.ca The Most Amazing Comedy Competition Ever two Wednesdays of every month until May 28

LOCAL/ FINE ARTS VAN DUSEBLODEL CONSERVATORY 4600 Cambie St., eventbrite.ca Photography at Blodel March 7

NICK OFFERMAN & MEGAN MULLALLY Queen Elizabeth Theatre, livenation.com May 29 YUK YUKÕS 2837 Cambie St., 604-696-9857, yukyuks.com Emo Phillips March 7 Allyson Smith March 13-14 VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE The Improv Centre, 1502 Duranleau St., 604-738-7013, vtsl.com Improv Test Kitchen Wednesdays until April 1 Late Night Laughs Fridays and Saturdays until April 4

VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby St., 604-662-4700, vanartgallery.bc.ca Material Future: The Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron March 27–Oct. 4 Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art until April 6 UBC MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY 6393 Northwest Marine Dr., 604-822-5087, moa.ubc.ca , the city before the city until January 2016

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CENTRE A 229 East Georgia St., 604-683-8326 centrea.org transgression/cantosphere until March 28 VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY Central Branch, 604-331-3603 Dead Poets Reading Series March 8 Incite March 11 Great Canadian Authors Book Club April 13, May 11 SFU WOODWARDÕS CULTURAL PROGRAMS 149 West Hastings, 778-7829102, sfu.ca/sfuwoodwards Noh Dance and Chant Workshop March 8-12 Carnival March 13-14 MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut St., museumofvancouver.ca From Rationing to Ravishing until March 8 Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Show April 23-Sept. 7 PLEIN-AIR BLOSSOM PAINTING VanDusen Botanical Garden, 5151 Oak St., vcbf.ca April 12, 18, 19

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Steven Reineke conductor Tony DeSare vocalist/piano Ed Decker guitar Steve Doyle bass Michael Klopp drums The VSO, conductor Steven Reineke, and vocalist Tony DeSare celebrate the 100th anniversary of Frank Sinatra’s birth, performing some of the legend’s greatest hits including New York, New York, My Way, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, One for My Baby, and much more!

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