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Pandemics, Pratfalls and Prayers
Original concept by Angus Ferguson.  Design by Crispi Lord. Pandemics, Pratfalls and Prayers was a truly collective creation. It was written, built, painted, performed, played, practiced and sung by the following wonderful group of artists:

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Jenna Berenbaum
 

Co-creator - Actor

An award-winning actress, Jenna holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Saskatchewan. Recent credits include J. Caesar, Midsummer, Titus. A puppet revenge, Merry Wives of Windsor, Comedy of Errors, As You Like It (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan), I and You (Globe Theatre), Jack and the Snow Queen (Dancing Sky Theatre), The Penelopiad (Ferre Play), The Wolves (Live Five/Little Big/EvilStick) and Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island (Persephone Theatre). She works as a playwright, poet and actor and is thrilled to be back at Dancing Sky!

*Appearing courtesy of Canadian Actors’ Equity

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Alyssa Billingsley

Co-creator - Actor

Alyssa is a musical and physical theatre performer with a prairie spirit who is so grateful to be back in front of live audiences after a very unorthodox year! Select credits: Pandamour (Troupe du Jour), COVID Cabaret (theatre humaniterre), Hair (Mayfield Dinner Theatre), Die Fledermaus (Saskatoon Opera), Elf the Musical, It's A Wonderful Life, Little Women, Arturo Ui (Persephone), Chickens (Station Arts), Songs of A Prairie Girl (Wild Side/NAC), The Backyardigans Canadian Tour (KOBA Entertainment), Carrie: The Musical (50% Fruit), Batboy (StraightEdge Theatre). She was nominated for a SATAward for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Persephone Theatre) and a Calgary Critic's Award nomination for Annie/Shelley in Evil Dead (Hit & Myth/Ground Zero Productions). Huge THANK-YOU to Dancing Sky and all you wonderful audience members!

*Appearing courtesy of Canadian Actors’ Equity

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Skye Brandon
 

Co-creator - Actor

Skye is a Treaty 6 actor/director/producer based in Saskatoon, but is no stranger to Dancing Sky Theatre. He made his professional debut in Street Wheat many moons ago, and went on to appear in other DST productions such as The Gift of the Magi, Mary's Wedding, The Alchemist, and Random Acts, in addition to contributing to a number of collective creations along the way. Skye is ecstatic to be performing for DST once again, and thanks his family for their unending support.

*Appearing courtesy of Canadian Actors’ Equity

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Sheldon Corbett

Co-creator-Musician

Sheldon Corbett is one of Saskatchewan’s most active freelance musicians, in demand as a saxophone and keyboard player in genres ranging from jazz and blues through world music, children’s entertainment and classical to pop and rock. His forty-year-plus professional career has encompassed work in television, radio, dance, the recording studio and the theatre. In addition to work as a composer and arranger, he is the musical director of Kinsmen Telemiracle. In 2012, he received the Special Recognition Award from the Saskatchewan Jazz Festival. He’s happy to be returning to Dancing Sky for the first time in eight years.

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Angus Ferguson

Co-creator- Artistic Director

Angus was born a long time ago in the magical hills in the South West of England. He grew up and went to school there and was a fairly normal English boy. When he was 15 years old, his Mum fell in love and remarried, and it was decided that the whole new family was going to move to Canada. Angus had never been to Canada, and he knew very little about it, but it all sounded like an exciting adventure. A house was bought in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan which sounded very exotic and different. So, the first time he set foot in his new land was when he moved here. It was January 3rd 1978, at 1:30 in the morning. It was 35 below with a pretty serious wind. Angus had never felt anything like it before in his life.

Once he was properly equipped, Angus started to explore the Canadian Prairies and slowly fell in love with them. Apart from one 4-year stint in Montreal where he met his wonderful wife Louisa, he has lived and worked in his new home, Saskatchewan ever since.

 

Angus is very proud that he has been able to make a living through the Arts – sharing stories with other people and making things.

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Crispi Lord
 

Co-Creator, Actor, Designer

Crispi Lord is an actor/creator/designer based in Saskatoon and trained at the University Of Saskatchewan and The Dell'Arte School of Physical Theatre (CA,USA).  As head puppet wrangler with Wide Open Children's Theatre she has been designing and building sets and puppets for twenty years.  Her latest endeavors include exploring the tiny world of tabletop puppetry with characters that are 6" tall.  Trained in physical theatre, mask and clown she was all too excited to drop everything and run away to Meacham to make art. Recently she was the grateful recipient of the Henry Woolf award for Continuing Achievement in Theatre from the Saskatoon and Area Theatre Awards.  Theatre highlights include: Titus A. Puppet. Revenge with Shakespeare on The Saskatchewan and Stumped Productions, The Snow Queen (Dancing Sky Theatre), Frosty The Snowperson (Wide Open), Balloonacy (Wide Open), Piyisew Iskweisis (Wide Open).

*Appearing courtesy of Canadian Actors’ Equity

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Jensine Emeline
 

Co-creator - Stage Manager

Jensine is a theatre designer and stage manager from Saskatoon and an alumnus from the U of S drama department. Recent costume designs include The Art of War (Hardly Art Theatre), With Glowing Hearts (Dancing Sky), The Penelopiad (Ferre Play), and Girl in the Box (Scantily Glad/Live Five). They were nominated in 2019 for a Saskatoon & Area Theatre Award for Outstanding Costume Design for DST's production of With Glowing Hearts. They are endlessly grateful to be able to work in theatre in and around Saskatoon and are excited for a healthy and safe return to live events.

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Evgenia Mikhaylova
 

Designer

Evgenia is a Russian/Canadian interdisciplinary artist and theatre set/costumes designer. She has been working with Dancing Sky Theatre for several years and is always thrilled to help bring a new artistic vision into reality. In the past decade Evgenia has worked on shows with Persephone Theatre, SUM Theatre, Saskatoon Opera, Scantily Glad Theatre and Outside the March, Toronto. She is currently completing a BFA in Sculpture/Installation at OCADU, Tkaronto/Toronto.

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Anaiah Adair
 

Youth Designer

Anaiah is a visual artist born and raised in Saskatoon. This is her first year at Dancing Sky, and she has brought her passion of all things art and design to prop construction! Some of Anaiah’s past times include: hiking, camping, drawing, and being a cat mom.

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Shahane Tamrazyan
 

Youth Designer

Art has always been a passion for Shahane Tamrazyan that’s why she decided to tie her interests with a future career. Currently, Shahane is a full-time student at the University of Saskatchewan. In September it will be her second year as a studio art student. She has been developing and gaining new skills with Dancing Sky which will be helpful for building up a future career.

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Nicole Zalesk
 

Youth Designer

A Theatrical Design BFA program graduate from the University of Saskatchewan. Nicole has designed costumes for several Station Arts Theatre productions such as Tent Meeting, Prairie Nurse, and Blow Wind. She was ecstatic to join Dancing Sky Theatre for the first time to help work on the production Pandemics Pratfalls and Prayers. Being able to work on the show with the talented aray of people involved in the production was an incredible experience and wonderful opportunity.

The Characters

 

Crispi Lord as

Ruth, Ernie, Gabby, Doug

 

Skye Brandon as

Harvey, Chad, Marlene, Mucky Muck

 

Alyssa Billingsley as

Millie, The Major, Mucky Muck

 

Jenna Berenbaum as

Jamie, Clive, Buck, Mucky Muck

Pandemics, Pratfalls and Prayers
PROGRAM NOTE

We have all just shared a momentous and world changing 18 months, going through the first worldwide pandemic of our lifetimes. It has had a huge effect upon all of us. We seem to be making good progress “sticking it to COVID” through the wonders of science and the power of mass action. Now seems like a good time to start “sticking it to COVID” through the magic and power of The Arts.

 

Pandemics, Pratfalls and Prayers is an opportunity to reflect collectively on how it has changed us. What have we lost? What have we learned? What have we achieved? Simple pleasures that we always took for granted were suddenly taken away. Connections that we relied upon were strained and even broken. We have also proven what we can do as a species if we really pull together and genuinely commit to mass action. We have responded to a global crisis like never before – which means we can do it again if we truly want to.

 

Dancing Sky has chosen to go on a new adventure, creating a large-scale outdoor piece to be performed in our lovely new amphitheatre. We will use theatre magic, music, masks, humour and ritual to create an event that will bring us back together to share space and experience. The show will be aimed at the whole family so that you can come with your loved ones and your friends to rebuild connections and community.

 

As always we will be offering ways for you to eat and drink together when you visit our lovely rural space.



Angus Ferguson
There will be a 15 minute intermission
DST would like to thank:
  • Garth and Darlene Kirzinger for the donation of the discs

  • Don Pidlisny for the donation of the discs

  • Canada Summer Jobs Program for grant funding to hire Youth  Theatre Designers

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