Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

Event Description

An incredible night showcasing Rachael Cardiello, members of The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra, and many other amazing visual artists, carnival performers, stage actors, and dancers, in a spectacle extravaganza, celebrating gypsy culture. Not your typically opera, “There Once Was a Girl: A Gypsy Opera” leads the audience through a childrens storybook. As the story unfolds, there becomes evident a divide between what is real life, and what is the fantastic world of the girls imagination. The girls real life struggles with loosing her father, and her resulting journey to find herself, mingle with the childs story, told both through haunting original music, and visual performance and art, with dancers, and actors playing the roles of an entire gypsy community, each telling part of the ... more...