{"id":18237,"date":"2012-09-12T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=18237"},"modified":"2012-09-12T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T18:31:00","slug":"first-dance-on-stage-at-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/09\/first-dance-on-stage-at-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"First Dance on stage at Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18238\" title=\"first-dance-promo-image\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/first-dance-promo-image-1024x596.jpg\" alt=\"first-dance-promo-image\" width=\"504\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Canadian play about same-sex marriage will be stepping onto the stage at Brock&#8217;s Studio Theatre this month.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"First Dance\" href=\"http:\/\/totteringbiped.ca\/upcoming-shows\/first-dance\/\" target=\"_blank\">First Dance,<\/a> a play set just months after same-sex marriage became legal in Canada, tells the story of a man about to marry his partner trying to devise the couple&#8217;s traditional first dance. Through ballroom dance and theatre, his journey as a gay man is explored through the challenge of creating a dance for a ritual that has no history.<\/p>\n<p>The play will be performed Sept.  29 and 30 at 8 p.m. by the Tottering Biped Theatre company. Brock alumni Jeff Fox stars in the play written by Lisa O&#8217;Connell and co-starring Trevor Copp.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connell got the idea to pen a play after attending a small LGTB-oriented performance festival where she saw Fox and Copp, two male champion ballroom dancers, demonstrate \u2018Liquid Lead,&#8217; a unique dance that the two developed in which the lead and follow switch seamlessly throughout the dance. It&#8217;s a form that they view as more in keeping with a modern relationship of give and take as opposed to the classic male\/lead and female\/follow formula.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of a year, Lisa interviewed Trevor and Jeff as they spoke of their experiences as gay adolescents, ballroom dancers and friends.  Those interviews became the raw material for First Dance.<\/p>\n<p>To reserve tickets, email <a href=\"mailto:info@totteringbiped.ca\">info@totteringbiped.ca.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian play about same-sex marriage will be stepping onto the stage at Brock&#8217;s Studio Theatre this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[541,538,540,539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18240,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18237\/revisions\/18240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}