{"id":22162,"date":"2016-12-02T00:36:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T08:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=22162"},"modified":"2016-12-01T13:57:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T21:57:09","slug":"chutzpah-tix-now-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2016\/12\/02\/chutzpah-tix-now-on-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Chutzpah! tix now on sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Broza, left, and Ali Paris will perform in concert. (photo from Chutzpah! Festival)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Tickets are now on sale for the 17th annual Chutzpah! Lisa Nemetz International Jewish Performing Arts Festival, which will run from Feb. 16 to March 13, at venues including Rothstein Theatre, York Theatre, Scotiabank Dance Centre and the Biltmore Cabaret.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all excited for another year of presenting an electrifying array of internationally acclaimed dancers, musicians, comedians and theatrical artists to our audiences in Canadian, Western Canadian and world premi\u00e8res. We\u2019re headed for an energizing and thrilling journey from stand-up comedy to theatrical drama to rich global music to explosive and elegant dance!\u201d said Mary-Louise Albert, Chutzpah!\u2019s artistic and managing director.<\/p>\n

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Italy\u2019s Spellbound Contemporary Ballet returns to Vancouver, bringing with them Carmina Burana. (photo by Mariano Bevilacqua)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As it does every year, the 2017 Chutzpah! Festival dance series presents some of the most sought-after contemporary choreographers in the world. This year\u2019s performances include the return of Italy\u2019s Spellbound Contemporary Ballet with their full-length Carmina Burana<\/em>; Israel\u2019s Yossi Berg and Oded Graf Dance Theatre with their acclaimed 4Men<\/em>, Alice<\/em>, Bach and the Deer<\/em>; and Kyle Abraham\/Abraham.In.Motion (United States) brings a mixed repertoire of some of Kyle Abraham\u2019s most popular works in their Western Canadian premi\u00e8re. Vancouver\u2019s Shay Kuebler\/Radical System Art premi\u00e8re their completed and full-length version of Telemetry<\/em>, while local choreographer and performer Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg and Italy\u2019s award-winning Silvia Gribaudi navigate the role of comedy as a catalyst to questions of gender, culture and language and understanding \u2013 this is world premi\u00e8re presented with the Dance Centre. As well, in Chutzpah! Plus (May 13-14), there is Birds Sing a Pretty Song<\/em> (Canada\/United States\/Israel\/Argentina), an exploration through dance, film, interactive media and live music created by Rebecca Margolick and Maxx Berkowitz during a yearlong fellowship in New York City with LABA: A Laboratory for New Jewish Culture.<\/p>\n

Among the Chutzpah! Festival 2017 musical highlights is Grammy-winners the Klezmatics 30th Anniversary Tour (United States). In concert together will be David Broza, whose music reflects the three different countries in which he was raised (Israel, Spain and England), and Ali Paris, who fuses Middle Eastern and Western music styles, and plays the qanun, a rare 76-string zither that dates back to the 14th century. Also in concert together will be Shalom Hanoch \u2013 touted as \u201cthe King of Israeli Rock\u201d and compared to musicians such as Neil Young and Mick Jagger \u2013 who will be joined on stage by his longtime music producer, partner and keyboard player Moshe Levi.<\/p>\n

Now based out of Chicago, Marbin, founded by Israeli guitarist Dani Rabin and Israeli saxophonist Danny Markovitch, is a progressive jazz-rock band, and MNGWA [ming-wah] opens their performance, mixing elements of psychedelic rock, dub, African rhythms, and vocals in four languages. Israeli singer Maya Avraham, who is known by Chutzpah! audiences from her performances with the Idan Raichel Project, comes to Vancouver with her band of Israeli and American musicians, and Lyla Cant\u00e9 (United States\/Israel\/Japan\/Argentina) also joins the festival \u2013 exploring the intersection of Sephardi, flamenco and Ashkenazi music. For Chutzpah! Plus (April 2), composer Landon Braverman and Friends put on an evening of musical theatre \u2013 while currently based in New York, Braverman is originally from Vancouver.<\/p>\n

With respect to theatre, one of this year\u2019s Chutzpah! highlights is Wrestling Jerusalem<\/em>, created and performed by Aaron Davidman. Set in America, Israel and Palestine, the play follows one man\u2019s journey to help understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Davidman\u2019s solo performance is a personal story that grapples with the complexities of identity, history and social justice.<\/p>\n

Another theatre draw is Folk Lordz<\/em>, high-speed and multicultural improv featuring two members of Edmonton-based Rapid Fire Theatre, which was co-created by Todd Houseman and Ben Gorodetsky and brings together the unlikely combination of Cree storytelling, Chekhovian character drama and spontaneous comedy.<\/p>\n

Comedy highlights include Mark Schiff (United States), who has headlined major casinos and clubs and has appeared many times on both The Tonight Show with Jay Leno<\/em> and Late Night with David Letterman<\/em>. He has had HBO and Showtime specials, was a featured act at the Montreal Comedy Festival and regularly opens for Jerry Seinfeld.<\/p>\n

Also on the comedy front, there is a double bill: Ali Hassan and Judy Gold. Canada\u2019s Hassan appears in his one-man show Muslim Interrupted<\/em>; Hassan is a stand-up comedian, actor, chef and radio and television celebrity, and is the host of Laugh Out Loud<\/em> on CBC Radio and SIRIUSXM. Gold\u2019s (United States) most recent TV appearances include guest-starring roles on Louie<\/em>, Broad City<\/em>, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt<\/em> and Inside Amy Schumer<\/em>, and she has a recurring role on the upcoming series on TBS Search Party<\/em>. Gold has had stand-up specials on HBO (Cable Ace Award), Comedy Central and LOGO and was twice nominated for the American Comedy Award for funniest female comedian.<\/p>\n

After the success of Chutzpah\u2019s first literary event in 2016, this year\u2019s Chutzpah! features author Christopher Noxon in Hollywood Stories<\/em>, a special pre-festival event. Noxon is an author, journalist and illustrator and his humorous and unflinching Plus One<\/em> is a novel about an interfaith family set in contemporary Los Angeles. Noxon is married to television writer and producer Jenji Kohan, creator of Orange is the New Black<\/em>. This event is presented with the Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival and will take place on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n

Single tickets for Chutzpah! range from $23 to $50 and are on sale now from chutzpahfestival.com, the festival box office, 604-257-5145, or Tickets Tonight, 604-684-2787. Chutzi Packs are also available \u2013 see four different shows for $94 \u2013 and new this year is a special five-show dance pack for $115.<\/p>\n

Tickets will be available in-person starting Jan. 30 at the on-site festival box office at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver. For hours and other information, visit chutzpahfestival.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Broza, left, and Ali Paris will perform in concert. (photo from Chutzpah! Festival) Tickets are now on sale for the 17th annual Chutzpah! Lisa Nemetz International Jewish Performing Arts Festival, which will run from Feb. 16 to March 13, at venues including Rothstein Theatre, York Theatre, Scotiabank Dance Centre and the Biltmore Cabaret. \u201cWe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[785],"tags":[5278,3119,3036,175,6208],"class_list":["post-22162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performing-arts","tag-comedy","tag-dance","tag-music","tag-rothstein-theatre","tag-theatre"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}