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We are haunted by our losses: Phantom Limbs at Expanse

Posted on March 27, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I want to tell you about a haunting and mysterious play I saw last weekend at the Expanse Fest. Phantom Limbs is one of those experiences that move into your mind and lodge there. It’s a … Continue reading →

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The mysterious presence of absence: Kristi Hansen’s Phantom Limbs at Expanse Fest 2026, a preview

Posted on March 20, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a great mystery at the heart of Kristi Hansen’s Phantom Limbs, opening Saturday at the Expanse Festival. It’s the uncanny way the past haunts the present. It has to do with the resonating presence in … Continue reading →

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Expanse, the festival that celebrates bodies in motion, is back

Posted on March 18, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It starts with bodies, all bodies, in motion, and moves onward and outward from there. Azimuth Theatre’s ever-expanding Expanse, their signature movement arts festival, is back Friday, with a 10-day edition dubbed Intersections. Community engagement, “the … Continue reading →

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The self in a bind: the RISER New Works Festival opens with Calla Wright’s Binding

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca New this year the RISER New Works Festival began its weekend of performances and workshops last night with a work-in-progress production of a challenging and playful one-human many-puppet show. Destined for Azimuth Theatre’s Expanse Festival in … Continue reading →

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The rise of RISER: a new works festival from Common Ground

Posted on May 11, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca RISER has risen. Again, and in a new, expanded form. Edmonton, where theatre is the leading arts industry, was always the right place for the visionary national initiative — launched by Toronto’s Why Not Theatre — … Continue reading →

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New plays, revivals, festivals, cabarets, improv, genre switcheroos: we survey an intriguing week in Edmonton theatre

Posted on April 2, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A big opening by a premier Canadian playwright, an improbable steal by big-budget theatre, a powerful verbatim-theatre production, a musical by a new-ish company — and another two-festival week on Edmonton stages, one devoted to the body … Continue reading →

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Raise a glass to World Theatre Day

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s World Theatre Day, and the moment to reflect on the art form that, above all others, is about human connection — stories told live; beauty and sorrow, insights and experiences shared live — across cultures, … Continue reading →

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Bodies in motion: Azimuth Theatre’s Expanse Festival is back with a 20th anniversary edition

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Its birth, 20 years ago, was dance. And gradually, Azimuth Theatre’s nimble, well-named Expanse Festival, returning Friday for an anniversary edition, has expanded the frontiers and expectations of dance to embrace “movement arts” and “body-based performance.” … Continue reading →

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The Expanse Fest is back for a 19th annual edition, ‘re-framed’

Posted on March 28, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Expanse, Azimuth Theatre’s 19-year-old movement arts festival, a “celebration of ALL bodies onstage,” is back, March 28 through April 4. And, says Azimuth’s co-artistic director Morgan Yamada, it’s been “re-framed” for the hard-edged realities of our … Continue reading →

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‘My love letter to queer and trans kids’: The Adventure of Young Turtle launches Expanse Festival 2024

Posted on March 28, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca One morning this week, I went on an undersea excursion backstage at the Westbury Theatre, and I met an apprehensive moray eel. Their body was once an air compressor hose, their eyes Gatorade bottle lids, and … Continue reading →

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