Cultural Olympiad: Vancouver’s 2010 arts and cultural festival will touch 1.5 million people
Unlike many of the tens of thousands of visitors to Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympics, Gerard Roxburgh hasn’t come to the west coast for sports. He’s here for the culture.
Roxburgh knows that makes him unusual. The Toronto resident admits that unless someone gives him tickets to a hockey game, he probably won’t be attending any sporting events. Instead, he plans to take in as many cultural performances as he can during the Cultural Olympiad.
An artistic administrator with the National Ballet of Canada, Roxburgh has taken a five-week leave of absence to work with Patrick Roberge Productions which is producing the opening and closing ceremonies of the Paralympics.
During his first week in Vancouver, Roxburgh attended the joint performance of the National and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Laurie Anderson’s Delusion and Hal Willner’ Neil Young Project. Next week, he plans to see Crystal Pite’s new dance work Dark Matters. He’s also trying to get tickets to Robert LePage’s The Blue Dragon and Vancouver Opera’s Nixon in China. He also hopes to visit the Vancouver Art Gallery to see Visceral Bodies and the Leonardo da Vinci drawings when the crowds die down after Sunday, Feb. 28, the day when the Winter Olympics end.
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