sublimity – a love supreme

This November, Dancing Monkey started the creative process of their new work. With old friends and new faces we had two workshops which included introductions, design presentations, a script reading and discussions on rehearsal methods and fairness and transparency statements. Then we got on our feet and into the text and movement – we began […]

We’ll Always Have The Running

From Sept 16 to 19, observationOne, a collaboration between Mike Czuba of Dancing Monkey, Tim Nguyen from TimNguyen.co and Wil KNoll from unit2studios, got together to investigate what theatre means in the middle of a global pandemic. How can we as Artists continue to create, continue to share, and continue grow when more than 6 […]

Running Digitally

A Monkey adjacent project: With the generous support of the Rozsa Foundation and Calgary Arts Development, Mike Czuba, along with Tim Nguyen and Wil Knoll will be experimenting with a project designed to investigate how a theatrical play can be re-imagined within a digital world, to ask different questions of ourselves as artists, our disciplines, and offer possible solutions in a finished, […]

‘LIKE TOM CRUISE LOVES RUNNING’

Like Tom Cruise Loves Running A New One-Act play by Mike Czuba czuba.mike@gmail.com © 2018 An immediate, physical, Meta-Theatrical, one-act play, with 3 people, 3 chairs, much running and a struggle to answer the question: “How do you love?” Three people, actors, characters meet in a space that looks similar to a theatre stage. Grand […]

Solo Projects.

In the time honoured, Rock&Roll tradition ( See Kiss ), The Monkeys are going to spend a little time on some solo gigs: various theatre, dance and music things, teaching – across the freakin’ country, community building and more schoolin’. Monkey works will arrive, here and there, as art-things are hard to stop doing, but […]