HARD RUBBER NEW MUSIC and

Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad present

ICE AGE 2010

AN ICE SHOW LIKE NO OTHER

Saturday March 20, 2010 at 7:30pm

ONE NIGHT ONLY!!

HARRY JEROME ARENA

123 E.23 Street, North Vancouver

tickets: $25 (general) ▪ $18 (students/seniors)

www.ticketstonight.ca or phone 604.684.2787

info: www.hardrubber.com ▪ 604.683.8240

The ice rink. In small and large communities across Canada, it sits at the centre of daily life, a cold place warmed by entertainment and physical activity. Ice Age 2010 is a musical exploration of that love affair with the rink, complete with Zamboni choreography, hockey, curling, ringette, the high energy 17-piece Hard Rubber Orchestra, champion figure skater and So You Think You Can Dance Canada finalist Emanuel Sandhu, North Vancouver’s own rising figure skating star Kathryn Kang, dance pair Tarrah Harvey and Keith Gagnon, national Canadian radio’s Kevin Sylvester, DOA’s Joe Keithley, Double Exposure’s Bob Robertson, commissioned compositions by Peter Hannan, Brad Turner, Bill Runge, Tony Wilson, Amsterdam’s David Dramm and a full locker room of guest vocalists and performers.

Emanuel Sandhu

On Saturday, March 20, 2010 at the Harry Jerome Arena in North Vancouver, experience the 2010 edition of Hard Rubber Orchestra’s new music ice show.  New choreography, large visual projections of film, images and lighting effects along with plenty of on ice action will be set to original music.  Gathered here will be an all-star cast of heroes from on the ice and behind the scenes.  Figure skating choreographer and coach Joanne McLeod will be working her magic with some of Canada’s finest figure skaters, hockey lover Kevin Sylvester of national Canadian radio fame will be your host and librettist.  The Hard Rubber Orchestra will pump out music ranging from new music to pop, jazz and world; premieres of commissioned pieces from some of Vancouver’s finest composers.

Kathryn Kang

In 2000, the Hard Rubber New Music Society presented The Ice Age – the World’s First New Music Ice Show at the Kerrisdale Arena. This mega multi-media production was an opera on ice, a new music concert on ice and a tribute to the great cornerstones of Canadian culture: hockey, figure skating and winter sport.  In 2010, Ice Age is back and it’s bigger and better than ever.

Hard Rubber New Music has presented concerts of original music by some of Canada’s most exciting composers, performed by some of Vancouver’s finest musicians. Under the artistic direction of composer, conductor, musician John Korsrud, previous large-scale works include Alcan Award-winning multi-media extravaganza, Enter/Exit; White Hot Core, a collaboration with Kokoro Dance; and The Elvis Cantata, which took an irreverent look at pop icons. The all-star Hard Rubber Orchestra features the finest of Vancouver’s jazz community and performs music that is influenced by jazz, pop, world, contemporary classical, and improvised music. Since its debut in 1990 the Orchestra has toured to Europe and across Canada including concerts in Amsterdam and at FIMAV in Quebec.

Tarrah Harvey & Keith Gagnon

“HARD RUBBER IS, NO QUESTION, CONSISTENTLY THE BEST VANCOUVER BAND EVENT YOU CAN SEE” (Discorder Magazine)

Joe Keithley

Kevin Sylvester

Gamelan Madu Sari and

Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad present

MARATHONOLOGUE

Norman Rothstein Theatre

950 West 41^st Ave (at Oak)

February 18, 19 & 20^th 2010

tickets  $20 (general)  &  $15 (students/seniors)

ticketstonight.ca • 604.684.2787

info 604.683.8240

www.marathonologue.com

Naoko Takahashi drank an extract distilled from Japanese giant killer hornets (Vespa Mandarina Japonica) just before she won the women’s marathon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Marathonologue, an interdisciplinary production inspired by this ultra-marathon runner energized by killer hornet extract, combines highland bagpipe, Japanese taiko and Balinese gamelan music by composers Michael O’Neill, Boyd Seiichi Grealy and I Wayan Sudirana, in live synchronization with computer-animated projections by Kenneth Newby and Aleksandra Dulic. The production brings to life the interplay between the physical landscape and a runner’s internal ‘mindscape’ as it develops and transforms in the experience of running a global marathon.

Marathonolgue zooms in on the creative powers of imagination catalyzed by motor-rhythmic physical exertion, the enzymes of hornet juice, the landscape, and the solitude of long distance running. Performing live with a tri-cultural ensemble of 7 musicians, and using additional animation by Oliver Szeleczky, Brendan Edward Wingrove, and Melissa Ftrzelec, Newby and Dulic use digital animation techniques to produce a startling array of images, envisioning both the runner and the hornets’ chameleon-like transformations, and reflecting the terrain and human physical/ cultural differences encountered. Image and sound combine to transport the audience to a realm of heightened imagination.

Michael O’Neill and Kenneth Newby have a long history of inter-arts collaborations originating with their involvement with the gamelan community in Vancouver in 1986.  In keeping with the Indonesian tradition of using gamelan in an interdisciplinary capacity, their initial collaboration was a shadowplay presented in the context of a large interdisciplinary outdoor work Journey to the New World, a Vancouver Public Dreams Society production.  Their collaborative work has continued over the years to include works involving dance, theatre, and many shadowplay productions. In 2005 they were principal artists in the development of a major new cross-cultural, collaborative multi-media shadow play with gamelan, shadow puppetry and media performance, Semar’s Journey, which was premiered at the Roundhouse in 2007.

Videographers Newby and Dulic, leaders in  the field of interactive audiovisual installation, received critical praise for their work, in a thousand drops… refracted glances, presented in Genoa, Italy in 2008.  Their collaborative interdisciplinary performance work Triaspora, was presented at the National Arts Center in Ottawa in 2009, their visual music work, Symmetry, was selected as a finalist in the Punto y Raya animation festival in 2007.

The three composers creating music for Marathonologue are each immersed in rich cultural music traditions; Balinese gamelan, highland bagpipe and Japanese taiko.  The music in Marathonologue gives the composers, who will also be performing in the show, an opportunity to explore the relation between these musical styles both in theory and in practice. I Wayan Sudirana was born in Ubud, Bali and is regarded as one of Bali’s most gifted musicians.  He has composed and taught actively in Bali and abroad and has been artist in residence at the University of British Columbia since 2004.  Vancouver composer-performer Michael O’Neill is a founding member of Gamelan Madu Sari and performs both Javanese gamelan and Balinese gender wayang.  Michael also performs with and composes for his own highland bagpipe ensemble Mearingstone.  A native of Victoria, Boyd Seiichi Grealy is a multifaceted taiko drummer and percussionist.  He has spent seventeen years as an international touring artist and co-artistic director of Vancouver ensemble Uzume Taiko, Canada’s first professional taiko group.  Together, in collaboration with musicians Sylvia DeTar, Elaine Ng, and Eien Hunter-Ishikawa, they create a mesmerizing river of sound and texture, trance-like and rhythmic, expanding the sonic landscape.

HARD RUBBER NEW MUSIC

and Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad present

CODE Live Performance

Drum & Light Festival

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Emily Carr – Great Northern Way Campus

577 Great Northern Way

(walking distance from VCC Skytrain Station)

Doors 9pm • Show 10pm

Tickets $20

www.tickets.com • 1.800.TICKETS

and at Zulu, Beat Street and Vinyl Records

Info: www.hardrubber.com • 604.683.8240

Mark February 11^th on your calendar!  Come out and dance!  The Drum & Light Festival is an evening of high-energy sonic and visual extravagance featuring percussion, improvised and jazz music, electronica, dance and visual projections by some of Vancouver’s best and brightest artists. In 2008 and 2009, Vancouver’s Hard Rubber Orchestra introduced the Drum & Light Festival, a series of sold-out multimedia dance events featuring a 14-piece groove orchestra and eye-popping visuals.  The dance party continues in 2010.

The Drum & Light Festival combines the most cutting-edge music, movement and visuals into one breathtaking evening.  This high-energy dance event features a 14-piece groove big band, five drummers, electronic music, intense visual projections and innovative choreography.  Music by an all-star collection of Vancouver artists — Ray Garroway (K-OS), Randall Stoll (Soulstream), Alvin Cornista (Sekoya), DJ Timothy Wisdom and  keyboardist Chris Gestrin (to name just a few) — is fused with incredible visuals by Brian Johnson and Jason Whyte and  movement choreographed and performed by the Tomorrow Collective.

Hard Rubber New Music has presented concerts of original music by some of Canada’s most exciting composers, performed by some of Vancouver’s finest musicians. Under the artistic direction of composer, conductor, musician John Korsrud, previous large-scale works include Alcan Award-winning Enter/Exit, a multi-media extravaganza featuring the premiere of compositions by Giorgio Magnanensi, Brad Turner and John Korsrud as well as visual projections by jamie griffiths, Brian Johnson, Rena del Pieve Gobbi, Riel Roussopoulos and HoneyBee Visuals. Other projects include The Ice Age: The World’s First New Music Ice Show, performed at Kerrisdale Arena and featuring the talents of hockey players, curlers and figure skaters; White Hot Core, a collaboration with Kokoro Dance; and The Elvis Cantata, which took an irreverent look at pop icons. The all-star Hard Rubber Orchestra features the finest of Vancouver’s jazz community and performs music that is influenced by jazz, pop, world, contemporary classical and improvised music. Since its debut in 1990 the Orchestra has toured to Europe and across Canada including concerts in Amsterdam and at FIMAV in Quebec.

“HARD RUBBER IS, NO QUESTION, CONSISTENTLY THE BEST VANCOUVER BAND EVENT YOU CAN SEE” (Discorder Magazine)

Drum and Light 2009

Drum and Light 2009 – 3-minute documentary for Vancouver’s Knowledge Network