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First Dance by Trevor Copp, Jeff Fox, and Lisa O’Connell

Three months after gay marriage becomes legal in Canada, a man prepares to marry his male partner. He enlists the help of his friend and professional dance partner to help him devise the traditional first dance. Through Ballroom Dance and theatre their journeys to adulthood as gay men are explored as they set about creating a dance for a ritual that has no history.

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The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris Adapted by Joe Mantello

Meet the quintessential elf gone bad as he relives a series of less-than-merry misadventures in David Sedaris’ hilarious antidote for the holidays. Visit the irreverent Crumpet— one of Santa’s little helpers— during the Macy’s Christmas shopping rush as he copes with thousands of shoppers and their kiddies as recalled by one of America’s pre-eminent humorists.

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The Inconsolable Blueness of Jeans by Trevor Cop

A pair of jeans in the world, the world in a pair of jeans.

A girl buys a pair of jeans at the mall. It bursts into a global event: the sales rep, the manager, the designer;  the composer of the store music; the field where the cotton grew, the mine where the button metal was extracted… It’s multi media dance theatre telling of a new fable for the globalized world, it takes the interconnected web we are shaking daily and makes it real, human, and alive.

There’s a fence up in Burlington. On one side are the artists, the environmentalists and the social activists who favour spending money on things that build a community with vitality. I believe in them. On the other side are the fiscal conservatives, the prudent, the wary who favour spending on roads, hospitals and essential services. I believe in them, too. What I don’t believe in is the fence.

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BPAC budget includes new full-time staffer

It was music to the ears of John Taylor, vice-chair of the Budget and Corporate Services Committee, that the Burlington Performing Arts Centre, or BPAC as its known, was able to balance its $1.65 million budget in 2011.

But the long-time councillor told Brenda Heatherington, BPAC’s executive director at Tuesday’s committee meeting, “If you do that this year, you will have exceeded my expectations.”

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Councillor John Taylor’s statement last week, “Don’t anyone say that I’m opposed to public art” (the Post, Feb. 23) left me dizzied by its paradox and daunted by its audacity.

It followed his and Councillor Jack Dennison’s decision to vote down Burlington’s best shot at a significant international-class public art purchase in a decade, despite extensive research by the community service committee team that proposed it.

It’s a statement that belongs to a mysterious split-personality politics, an invincible breed of nonsense, like eating in the name of starvation.

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