May 13, 2022 | 2:00pm | Shu-Box Theatre, Riddell Centre

Rufus: It’s a Gong Show (or, Rufus & The Travelling Gong Show)

Dancer……Kathryn Ricketts | Sound Artist / Gong Player……Stacey Bliss

Sustainable Stage Provided by the Faculty of MAP

Rufus, one of three of the characters belong to Ricketts is steeped in what we may identify as failure but with further interrogation we understand that Rufus invites us into the fertile place of the unexpected, the unplanned and the unintended. 

Bliss, with her haunting resonances through gong and bowls, will work in dialogue with Ricketts both following and provoking poetic and moving impulses. These moments of improvisation are playfully probing and bittersweet in nature and leave us with a sense that risk is not only possible but necessary.

The performance is presented on a small sustainable stage harkening a caravan like transience akin to Rufus as a character that is forever seeking and the gong as forever travelling / resonating. Have gong will travel!

This 15-minute performance is followed by a 15-minute talk back with audience facilitated by Ann Kipling-Brown.

This production was made possible by On Cue Production Hub & Humanities Research Institute (HRI) at the University of Regina.

May 24, 2022 | 2:00pm | Shu-Box Theatre, Riddell Centre

Project Sam: Lucky’s Performative Bricolage

Dancer……Kathryn Ricketts | Performer & Media Artist……Ian Campbell | Bagpiper……Gale Russell | Actor……Ken Wilson

We will perform a particular rendering of Lucky’s monologue from Waiting for Godot which will exemplify the poetic narrative framework. This structured improvisation will hinge on fractured text from the play but through our unique performative style, folding dance, theatre, voice and visuals into a poetic collage of moving images supported by a media artist, actor and bag piper. The performance will not be considered complete until the interpretations and stories from the audience are shared.

This performative event will serve as an exemplar to poetic narratives as a potent provocation to dialogue and shared storytelling. It also outlines the catalytic nature of this method as it moves from the specificity of source material (Waiting for Godot) to broader thematics with profound shared value within a diverse group. Gale Russell will be playing treated bag pipes, Ken Wilson will be reading parts of Waiting for Godot over a megaphone and Ian Campbell, long time collaborator, will be contributing both sound and sampled imagery. 

This 15 minute performance is followed by a 15 minute talk back with audience facilitated by Kathleen Irwin.

This production was made possible by On Cue Production Hub.

June 6, 2022 | 3:00pm | The Fifth Parallel Gallery, Riddell Centre

Stories of Regina: Mapping and Mining Narratives of Place Through Interdisciplinary Performance

Dancer……Kathryn Ricketts | Cellist……Terry Sefton

This project investigates the primacy of place in memory, and how the stories we tell are rooted in those places of fascination. Terry Sefton (cellist) and Kathryn Ricketts (dancer) translate and re-create stories, using improvised music and dance. They collect stories from volunteers, using carto-elicitation; the act of locating a spot on a map that triggers a personal narrative. These stories may be tales of personal experience, identity, or family history, that are connected to a specific location, either a ‘real’ place of daily life, or the ‘imaginary’ terrain of memory – streets or houses or fields that may no longer exist.

This performance explores the potency of shared stories provoked by specificity of place, in this case Windsor, and how these stories can be mined for new meanings through re-creative performance. 

This 15 minute performance is followed by a 15 minute talk back with audience facilitated by Kenneth Wilson.

This production was made possible by On Cue Production Hub.