5 Minutes to Change the World Cabaret

The philosophers have interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
- Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

Springboard Performance features Calgary artists we love in short online performance works that (just might) change the way we think.

The current global pandemic offers a cracked open door into a post-pandemic break with the past. In the midst of our current flux we are offered the chance to rethink the world anew. And who better to do this than artists, our physical and live performance philosophers who train in process and the possibility of ‘what if’?

COVID has changed how we work. But art can change how we think. Standing in the shards of the past and wading through the post-pandemic possibility, Springboard Performance asks Calgary movement artists we admire, to change the world - in 5-7 minutes - for our digital cabaret. Joke, jest, interrogate, demand, subvert, renew, and reimagine gestures of radical solidarity between artists, audiences, and communities, to help us design what is ahead.

5 Minutes to Change the World
Premiering Thursday November 26, 7pm MST
Link available until December 4

5 MINUTES TO CHANGE THE WORLD invites artists to investigate what matters now. Time. Space. Perspective. You. Us. The Body. Your Body. Systems. Possibilities. Philosophies. Live performance. The digital frontier. Borders and exchange. Internal and external worlds. The desire to fully occupy the present, in all its complexity. We invite folks to invest in gestures of radical solidarity between artists, audiences, communities, to help us design what is ahead. From our current in-between state of experience, Springboard invites performances that suggest the new.