A Coquitlam dancer and filmmaker will see her latest work shown at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival.
Linda Arkelian and her film partner David Cooper — the acclaimed Canadian dance and theatre photographer — produced Eclipse, a 2013 piece focusing on Thibaut Eiferman and Darren Devaney, two former Ballet BC dancers.
The film will run Oct. 10 at the Brava Theatre and both Arkelian and Cooper will attend. “It’s an honour to be there,” she said.
It’s not the first time the two have paired up. She collaborated with Cooper on the 2012 flick Hands, also dance film.
Arkelian, who teaches advanced ballet/pointe class The Dance Centre at the ScotiaBank Dance Centre, is well-known in dance circles, having performed with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Theatre Ballet of Canada, Anna Wyman Dance Theatre and the Judith Marcuse Dance Company.
HELP THE REFUGEES
Get your dancing shoes on this Saturday night and support an emergency relief effort.
The Hot Salsa Dance Zone will donate all proceeds from its party at the Evergreen Cultural Centre to the United Nations Refugee Agency (unhcr.ca) in Canada to assist the Syrians escaping their war-torn country and flooding into Europe.
The fundraiser will happen in the Evergreen rehearsal hall (at the back of the building) from 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
Tickets at $10/$8 are at the door and parking is free. Visit hotsalsadancezone.com or call 604-725-4654.
FRINGE
A Port Coquitlam native is seeing her company remount its first production during the Vancouver Fringe Festival .
Maryanne Renzetti of Staircase Theatre is starring in Oh the Humanity (and other good intentions) by Will Eno at the Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova St., Vancouver) until Sept. 16.
The show is directed by Brian Cochrane, a Jessie award winner, and also includes actors Brad Duffy and Tom Pickett.
“We couldn’t have been happier with the results,” Renzetti said in a news release. “This was our first time producing and back in 2010 we learned a lot of things by trial and error. We had a lot of help from our more experienced friends and we somehow pulled it off.”
Tickets are $14 plus a $5 membership through vancouverfringe.com.
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