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Noon at New West
Free Thursday concerts
Performing Arts

Nov 16 Martin Beaver, violin
Bryan Epperson, cello
Robert Silverman, piano

Nov 23 Student Showcase
Nov 30 Student Showcase

Evening Concerts

New West New Music

Wed, Nov 22

8 pm in the Performing Arts Theatre
Featuring Robert Caldwell, Kathryn
Cernauskas, Owen Duggan & Michael
Strutt

Free Admission

Douglas College Chorus & Chamber
Choir

Fri, Nov 24

8 pm Queens Avenue United Church
Free Admission

Douglas College Concert Band, Jazz
Band, and Jazz Choir

Mon, Nov 27

8 pm Performing Arts Theatre

Free Admission

Douglas College Choral Society
presents

Handel’s Messiah

Fri, Dec 8, 8pm

Sixth Avenue United Church
New Westminster

Theatre

Ten Lost Years

by David Broadbent

Nov 3 - 11

Studio Theatre

Tickets for both shows: Local 5488

Top Girls

by Caryl Churchill

Nov 10 - 18

Performing Arts Theatre

Amelia Douglas Gallery

Nov 13 - Dec 20

Backstage

David Cooper

Photography

Opening Reception: Th, Nov 16, 7-10 pm

WomenSpeak Institute
Reclaiming Sophia

Wed, Nov 29

Boardroom

Tickets: local 5440

Douglas Development
highlights
(Register by calling 5440)

Prior Learning Assessment
Partnership:

Cross College Implications
Wed, Nov 8, 1-4pm
Boardroom

Live Video Conference

Computer Aided Statistics for the 21st
Century

Wed, Nov 15 10-11:30am

Room 2130

DisCourse DISCUSSED:
Education Council’s New Journal
Fri, Nov 17, Boardroom I

A Backstage look at theatre, dance,
and photography

erforming arts photographer
David Cooper will bring his
unique blend of crisp production
values and evocative composition
to the Amelia Douglas Gallery at
Douglas College on November 14. His
show, called Backstage, is a selection of
images picked from throughout Cooper’s
20 years of capturing dance and theatre on
film.

Most known for his award-winning
work for the Shaw Festival and the Royal
Winnipeg Ballet, Cooper combines the
elegance of his subjects with his own
surreal imaginings to create distinctive,
dream-like images that both entertain and
disturb. The Backstage photographs are
concerned with aspects of the performing
arts usually hidden from the audience.

“The show reveals details about how
theatre and dance do the things they do, as
well as how photographic effects are
achieved,” says Cooper. “Each
photograph will have a card explaining
what is being done in the photo as well as
how it was taken. Some of the digital stuff
is pretty interesting from both a technical
and artistic sense.”

Computer-manipulated images will be
accompanied by ‘before’ pictures,
showing the unaltered photo for
comparison purposes.

Cooper’s knack for capturing the
moment has made him the favored
photographer of the Royal Winnipeg
Ballet, Alberta Ballet, Ballet British
Columbia, and Les Grands Ballets
Canadian, among others. The challenge of
capturing quickly moving figures under

poor lighting conditions makes dance
photography both difficult and rewarding.
One of the photos he has chosen for
Backstage occurred spontaneously when
he brought his infant daughter to a photo
session with prima ballerina Evelyn Hart.

“T was at the Royal Winnipeg’s
practice location, just doing some
production photos. Evelyn picked up my
daughter, and there it was. Dance is so
fleeting, it’s probably the most difficult
photography I do.”

Backstage will be at the Amelia
Douglas Gallery from November 14 to
December 20. The public is invited to an
opening reception with David Cooper in
attendance on November 16 from 4 to 8
pm. Admission is free. For information,
call 527-5196. I