Incubator

Incubator

Through our Incubator program, the Belfry provides support and mentorship for local independent theatre companies wishing to explore new work, new practices, or new artistic territory. It is a venue for the artistic development of Vancouver Island’s most exciting artists and theatre companies. Each project chosen for Incubator is given a performance run during the Belfry’s SPARK Festival.

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SNAFU Dance Theatre has been selected as its current Incubator Project, and we are thrilled to be working with Victoria artists Ingrid Hansen and Kathleen Greenfield.  Their play, Kitt & Jane (working title) is being mentored by the Belfry staff and visiting artists and will be presented as part of the 2012 SPARK Festival.

Kitt & Jane is a sequel to the highly acclaimed Gnomeward Bound, seen at the 2010 Calgary Fringe.

Kitt is “the sort of girl that director Terry Gilliam might have dreamed up.”  (The Calgary Herald)  She is a high-octane fourteen-year-old whose world-view has been informed as much by her grandfather’s gruesome Danish folktales as it has by Google and quantum theory.  Convinced that “Attention Deficit” is actually a superpower, evolved to manage the fast-paced modern world, Kitt begins her path to world domination.

Jane is the Lipstick B*tch who all the boys like and all the girls either hate, try to emulate, or both.  She wears what she wants, flaunts all her faults, reads and then burns every beauty magazine she can find.

Caught in a world where girls drown in the Princess myth as soon as their toddler eyes can focus on a television screen, Kitt and Jane learn that what the magazines want you to want is, well, just plain boring.

SNAFU creates original live performances both collectively and through director-driven creation.  Their work is inspired by Viewpoints (a creation practice that provides a vocabulary for thinking about and acting upon movement and gesture), Butoh (an avant garde performance art that has its origins in Japan in the 1960′s), found-object puppetry, storytelling, clown, ritual, fables, politics, children, history, and lore.

SNAFU’s previous plays include CHALK, Ginger Ninjas, BLiNK (“Best Dance Production in 2007″ Monday Magazine M Awards, “Favourite Physical/Dance Show” Pick-of-The-Fringe) and Pretty Little Instincts (Victoria’s Critic’s Choice Awards “Best Fringe Show of 2009″, “Most Innovative Show” Pick-of-The-Fringe, “Favourite Physical/Dance Show” Pick-of-The-Fringe).  Ingrid Hansen was voted “Victoria’s Favourite Choreographer” by Monday Magazine M Awards.

Upcoming Shows

• February  2012

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  		1	2	3	4 Shows on February 4, 2012 on the edge Starts: 4:00 pm Ends: February 4, 2012 - 6:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page... on the edge Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: February 4, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...	5 Shows on February 5, 2012 on the edge Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: February 5, 2012 - 4:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...
  6	7 Shows on February 7, 2012 on the edge Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: February 7, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...	8 Shows on February 8, 2012 on the edge Starts: 1:00 pm Ends: February 8, 2012 - 3:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page... on the edge Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: February 8, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...	9 Shows on February 9, 2012 Belfry 101 Starts: 4:00 pm Ends: February 9, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre Description: Our signature educational program has been enhanced and divided into two new sections: Belfry 201 and Belfry 301. Open to View Google Calendar Page... on the edge Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: February 9, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...	10 Shows on February 10, 2012 on the edge Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: February 10, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...	11 Shows on February 11, 2012 on the edge Starts: 4:00 pm Ends: February 11, 2012 - 6:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page... on the edge Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: February 11, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...	12 Shows on February 12, 2012 on the edge Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: February 12, 2012 - 4:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...
  13	14 Shows on February 14, 2012 on the edge Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: February 14, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...	15 Shows on February 15, 2012 on the edge Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: February 15, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...	16 Shows on February 16, 2012 Belfry 101 Starts: 4:00 pm Ends: February 16, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre Description: Our signature educational program has been enhanced and divided into two new sections: Belfry 201 and Belfry 301. Open to View Google Calendar Page... on the edge Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: February 16, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...	17 Shows on February 17, 2012 on the edge Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: February 17, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...	18 Shows on February 18, 2012 on the edge Starts: 4:00 pm Ends: February 18, 2012 - 6:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page... on the edge Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: February 18, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...	19 Shows on February 19, 2012 on the edge Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: February 19, 2012 - 4:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...
  20	21 Shows on February 21, 2012 on the edge Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: February 21, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...	22 Shows on February 22, 2012 on the edge Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: February 22, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...	23 Shows on February 23, 2012 Belfry 101 Starts: 4:00 pm Ends: February 23, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre Description: Our signature educational program has been enhanced and divided into two new sections: Belfry 201 and Belfry 301. Open to View Google Calendar Page... on the edge Starts: 8:00 pm Ends: February 23, 2012 - 10:00 pm Location: Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave, Victoria BC Description: on the edge January 24 - February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml Directed by Andrew McIlroy Premiere Three women from View Google Calendar Page...	24	25	26
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