Performing Arts
Performance Arts have been generally merged into the more classical forms of stagecraft, ie. Ballet, Dance, Opera, Theatre and Gilbert & Sullivan, and are listed by title below. Performing music, both studio and live performance are best found under "Music Capsule".
Right: The spectacular troupe of "Cirque du Soleil".
Dracula - Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2003)
7/10
Director: Guy Maddin
Starring: Zhang Wei-Qiang, Tara Birtwhistle, David Moroni, Cindymarie Small, Johnny Wright
Cult auteur Guy Maddin ('The Saddest Music in the World') has taken on the world's most adapted horror tale and concocted his most original and ravish... Read more
Piaf: Her Story Her Songs (2003)
7.3/10
Director: George Elder, Raquel Bitton
Starring: Raquel Bitton, Marcel Cerdan Jr, Francis Lai
Raquel Bitton pays her one woman tribute to the late great Edith Piaf with this concert interweaving 20 of the songbird's finest with stories about he... Read more
Cirque du Soleil: Solstrom ( Superbit ) (2003)
7.2/10
Director: Pierre Seguin, Mario Rouleau, Pierre Gagnon
A child in a sandbox. An architect at a construction site. A high wire shimmering over an Italian piazza. Aliens performing at a cosmic discotheque. A... Read more
Riverdance: Live from Geneva 2002 (2002)
7.7/10
Director: John McColgan
Starring: Breandan de Gallai, Joanne Doyle
Filmed at a live performance in Geneva, Switzerland in 2002, "Riverdance" remains one of the biggest and most successful dance shows in the world. Thi... Read more
Cirque du Soleil: Varekai (2002)
8/10
Director: Nick Morris
Deep within a forest, at the summit of a volcano, there is an extraordinary world - a world where something else is possible. A world called Varekai.... Read more
Fosse (2001)
6.8/10
Director: Matthew Diamond
Starring: Ben Vereen, Ann Reinking
This stage tribute to the man behind the brilliant, seductive choreography of hits including 'Cabaret' and 'Chicago' took Broadway by storm and racked... Read more
Puppetry of the Penis (2001)
5.7/10
Starring: Simon Morley, David Friend
Just when you thought you'd seen it all...Aussie blokes Simon Morley and David Friend began performing their 'genital installations', triggering a glo... Read more
Music Hall Days (2001)
Telling the story of the magical Music Hall era. Take a trip back to the Middle Ages and explore the unruly Bartholomew Fayres, before moving forward... Read more
By Jeeves (2001)
7.6/10
Director: Alan Ayckbourn
Starring: Martin Jarvis, John Scherer, Donna Lynne Champlin, James Kall, Ian Knauer, Emily...
A musical comedy based on the characters of P.G. Wodehouse, written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn and featuring the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. The... Read more
The Turandot Project (2001)
7.2/10
Director: Alan Miller
Documentarian Alan Miller takes a fascinating look at the mounting of a monumental, extremely costly production of the Puccini opera "Turandot" in col... Read more