Within the last decade, the entertainment industry has made wonderful yet long overdue strides in bringing attention to and representing Asian voices (thank you #OscarsSoWhite and Crazy Rich Asians). According to the thread, he tried to jump-start her car, and when that failed, he called a tow truck and drove the woman home, giving her his number and telling her to call him if she needed anything. ), Jan Lisieckis debut recording for Deutsche Grammophon is released. Because regardless of whether the Emmys take notice, its going to make great TV. Starting the year off on what seemed like a hopeful note (oh, how wrong we were), Samantha Bee debuted her often-satirical late-night talk show, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, in February. Canadians Paul Austerberry, Jeffrey Melvin and Shane Vieau also nabbed the Oscar for best production design thanks to their work making Ontario stand in for 1960s-era Baltimore. But was it enough? On June 22, 2010, Canada lost a force to be reckoned with when stage and screen icon Tracy Wright passed away from pancreatic cancer. 1 on the Billboard 200. Reeves was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert when the titular host asked him the ultimate question: What do you think happens when we die, Keanu Reeves? Reeves exhaled slowly, paused and looked Colbert in the eyes. These words became iconic the moment they were spoken by Wolastoqiyik musicologist, vocalist and composer Jeremy Dutcher. Isnt it ironic, then, that one of Canadas biggest superstars has spent this fame-monster decade being mostly invisible? Lorne Michaels debuts the 40th season of SNL. When Everything, Everything was released on May 19, 2017, it made Canadian director Stella Meghie the only Black woman to have a wide release studio-backed feature film for the year. Tony Goldwyn and Tatiana Maslany in Network. Maslany is the first Canadian to win an Emmy in a major dramatic category for acting in a Canadian series. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart. Looking back on the 2010s, I'm struck by the sweeping changes that impacted me, a Canadian female filmmaker, and my people. The 2010s were a huge decade for Broadway. By my count, Canadians were nominated for 72 Academy Awards in the 2010s, which is nothing to be sorry about. But starting with The Witch in 2015, another trend emerged. On NFY, truth is a lie you have the confidence to believe. The Courage World Tour is taking her near, far and probably wherever you are. Its no problem: the crew will focus on getting a cool drone shot, instead. Alanis has done a lot of therapy, not only for her own benefit but for ours as well! Tatiana Maslany, the star of "Orphan Black," talks about creating different body movements for the myrid of characters she plays and not getting a moment to reset between gear shifts. She also got a jump-start on 2016s mannequin challenge via the corresponding video, where she worked her way through a party chock-full of attendees standing completely still or, as I like to call it, an ideal party if I have to stay past nine. This fall, the Guardian crowned Betroffenheit the best dance show of the 21st century so far. Prisons are terrifying its hard for me to even watch the caricatured version you see in Orange is the New Black. After many rumors and delays, Cline Dion closes the 2010s by launching her most hyped album in decades, Courage. This is the capitalistic reality behind all art: marginalized artists work will always be considered niche when arts institutions, publishers and galleries continue to treat it as niche. That first Las Vegas residency wrapped in 2007, before Dion and her family embarked on the Taking Chances world tour. Search instead in Creative? (If youre in Toronto, be sure to take in something from their current program). Later stunts, like Summit Ice the worlds first outdoor apparel company to openly promote the true story of the holocaust might have had a more positive real-world outcome. Toronto drag queen Brooke Lynn Hytes finishes second on the 11th season of RuPauls Drag Race. I am now 34. What was once considered the great equalizer for drag in the United States has become a global standard for drag as viewed by the mainstream. So the work of Vancouver-based artist Kelly Richardson has always spoken to me. Inside, more decorative shadows are employed. Its incredibly hard to describe alternative drag succinctly. (while they themselves borrowed from Scandinavian landscapes) gave us a truly modern language for the Canadian wild that has become a signature of our own art history. The 2010s: How 11 Tatiana Maslanys walked so Schitt's Creek could run | CBC Arts Over the last 10 years, Canadian artists have been storming the world stage like never before in music,. She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany reveals alternate finale ending that was 'more serious' Head writer Jessica Gao told Maslany "there were like 20 versions" of the ending, the actress says. Probably most important of all, his casting means that Asian children and Asian-Canadian children in particular will see someone who they can identify with on the silver screen. July Talks hook-laden, heavy approach to alternative rock made the Toronto band into chart-topping successes in Canada. Which was helped, obviously, by the bands killer performance of Ready to Start, which closed out the show that night. Over four seasons, the greatest and most elaborate stunt Nathan for You ever produced was the series itself. The shows previews have received rave reviews, and its shaping up to be a Broadway smash. In short, Jamess star has been rising fast this decade, and it only seems poised to soar further in the 2020s. Were people interested in exercise tips or Jacks tales of jungle children? As promised, he inspires the public with a death-defying tightrope walk for charity., The plan: Construct the ultimate talk show anecdote.. Cheyenne Jacksons character, Danny, is from Ottawa and joins the cast of the show-within-a-show TGS with Tracy Jordan after starring in a movie about Canadian football, while Steve Martins Gavin Volure tries to evade house arrest by whisking Liz Lemon off to Toronto (Toronto is just like New York, but without all the stuff!). Carly Rae Jepsens E MO TION is released to universal critical acclaim. True, the song and Bieber obviously followed the formula that pop music has long been built on (a young star sings about puppy love as a means to launch a brand hell inevitably abandon in a handful of years as he grows up). The plan: Attract visitors to a petting zoo with a hero pig.. It soon became exactly the TV show we needed to survive the rest of the decade. She doubles down on that claim with a second iconic look that month when she performs My Heart Will Go On in a puffy white dress with a plunging neckline at the Billboard Music Awards a surprising nod to the reverse pantsuit (with a plunging back) that she wore to the 1999 Academy Awards. Because Tat is, first and foremost, a defender of the truth. Few things can push the limits of credulity like an artistic statement, and in this episode, Nathan exploits a loophole in Californias smoking laws, staging a theatrical production in a Pasadena tavern. Major projects are made with our money and also without and thats OK, as Toronto and the rest of Canada welcome major productions, and our filmmakers shape them, here and elsewhere. Tranna Wintour is a comedian, singer, writer and the co-host of Chosen Family on CBC Podcasts. One of the shows epic works featured a sort of temple hung with plants and a hammock fashioned from an afghan. And thats the final image of the series: a drones-eye view from the sky though not so high to obscure the action on the ground. The Illinois-born, Ontario-raised director won his first Tony Award in 1985 for directing Big River and has had a storied career ever since. We've already heard Tatiana Maslany claim she wasn't She . The outfit, put together by celebrity stylist Law Roach, was a radical move for Dion because it hinted that after years of tastemakers making fun of her, she might actually be in on the joke. With the help of 5,000 volunteers, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games opened to much fanfare and only slight technical setbacks like when one of four pillars failed to rise from the stadium floor to surround the cauldron housing the Olympic flame. Throughout, the dancers move like caged animals to Pites inspired choreography, their bodies deformed and released according to the logic of the protagonists tortured journey. This coincided with Indigenous artists dominating both literature and visual art awards: the Sobey Art Award has been awarded to three Indigenous artists since 2013, and the Griffin Poetry Prize had three consecutive Indigenous winners from 2016 to 2018. She leaves everything on the mic on this song, so it figures that her fellow Canadians ate it up. ! Naturally, this led anybody who prided themselves on being well-versed in Canadian indie (see: me, nine years ago) to bask in a sense of superiority fuelled by the knowledge that theyd been Arcade Fire fans since Funeral came out back in 2004. And as 2019 comes to a close, social media is buzzing with excitement for her next film The Photograph, releasing Valentines Day 2020 and starring two of the biggest names in this current Black Hollywood Renaissance: Issa Rae and Lakeith Stanfield. Tatiana Gabrielle Maslany, actor (born 22 September 1985 in Regina, Saskatchewan). (That, and the many GIFs circulating on Twitter of Jung either being adorable or taking his shirt off. While it would be romantic to say that all of these brilliant Indigenous artists coincidentally emerged in the art scene at the same time and that Canadians and Canadian arts institutions just so happened to recognize that brilliance at the same time it wouldnt exactly be accurate. She has a passion for romance and seems intrigued by the way it ignites vulnerability and inspires transformation. In a bit of a twist, Canadas quirkiest screen star had quite the Broadway run this decade. Women like pUNK Films Ingrid Veninger, who produced six low-budget features over the decade, took microbudgets and ran with them. David Myles, Big Hoops (Bigger the Better) by Nelly Furtado, The Veldt by Deadmau5 feat. When it opened at the National Gallery of Canada in 2013, Sakahn: International Indigenous Art was billed as offering the largest-ever global survey of contemporary Indigenous art and included work from Rebecca Belmore, Brian Jungen and the now late Annie Pootoogook, as well as artists from other regions like Finland, India and New Zealand. It only took 19 years and a show in which she played 11 different characters (thats the number she gave me, so dont @ me, Clone Club) to effectively showcase the depth and breadth of her talent. Its not too late for you to see it, either: get your hands on a copy before the end of the decade. In a world where opinions on styles of drag were often clashing among scenes, we had a new great divider in Drag Race. While Crazy Rich Asians created buzz on the international screen, Canada had its own surge in Asian representation with Kims Convenience, rich in hilarious storytelling; Manny Jacinto, making the entertainment industry a Good Place; Sandra Oh, a shining example of what can be achieved when Asian actors are given the opportunity to take on lead roles; and Liu, standing in a superhero pose as a testament to what future generations of Asian-Canadians can achieve. She signed with Creative Artists Agency (a.k.a. It included Lindsay Nixons essay Windigo, which eventually ended up in their book ntisnak. CNN called him a national treasure because of it, and he further cemented his status as the internets wholesome boyfriend. Well, obviously, she experienced a lot of personal growth, but also: Orphan Black ran for five seasons, winning her four consecutive Canadian Screen Awards for her performances. Performers have been allowed to grow into exactly who they need to be not who they make think a television audience needs them to be. Hadestown begins its pre-Broadway run in Edmonton, Prior to earning 14 Tony nominations, Hadestown grew into itself at Edmontons Citadel Theatre, where the retelling of the Greek myth (in which Orpheus attempts to regain the favour of his love, Eurydice) was staged for three weeks in November 2017. Xas Child of Magohalmi and the Echoes of Creation was performed at Londons Art Night before travelling, in various iterations, to Glasgow and Baku, Azerbaijan. Dion hits No. Still, few could have anticipated how quickly Atwoods latest instalment would break sales records, selling more print copies in its first week than any other Canadian book has since BookNet Canada began tracking sales in 2005. Youll need a passport to visit this otherworldly temple, a Canadian-led project designed by Torontos Hariri Pontarini Architects. Ultimately, they get her address through some old-fashioned library research but in the episodes heartbreaking climax, Bill cant summon the courage to ring the doorbell. Born in Toronto to Jamaican parents, Meghie always had a love for writing, but after graduating from Waterloo University, she couldnt find a direct way into the industry and ended up working as a fashion publicist in New York. In 2019 two years after it dropped on Netflix, four years after it premiered on CBC and with 18 Canadian Screen Awards to its name Schitts Creek was finally recognized by the Emmys with four nominations, including an outstanding comedy series nod. Few artists can draw out emotions like Inuk musician Tanya Tagaq, and even fewer can bring those emotions out simultaneously. But some Canadian-made songs didnt quite make the same splash outside of the country, even though they deserved that same worldwide recognition. After years of hearing the same five or six male names bandied about in casual conversation as the beardy definition of Canadian auteur-dom (Valle, Maddin, Egoyan, McDonald, Cronenberg, Dolan; then Johnson, Shin, Radwanski and Cividino, the latter quartet representing the so-called new Toronto New Wave), festivals and critics started to take notice of female voices. But as we bid farewell to the 2010s, thats all changed: Cline Dion is the new queen of cool. Alternative performers have always seen more sides to the constructs of gender in which they can play. Named CELINUNUNU, the collection replaces baby blue and hot pink with a palette that equates neutrality and gloom: black, grey and a touch of green. To look at the contributors list of this issue now is a bit surreal. ), she went for it with me. lang and Sarah McLachlan were heralded as ceremonial triumphs. We were too, Stephen. By the shows final season, it wasnt just ignoring the line between the NFY universe and our own it was erasing it entirely. The record took risks, aligned itself with strange, unique visuals and featured lyrics that were introspective, angry and unafraid of what anybody might think. When architect Fumihiko Maki got the assignment to build North Americas first museum of Islamic art and culture, capturing the concept of light was apparently the brief. First of all, that concept. about love and the lies we tell ourselves. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World hits cinemas in all its Toronto-set glory. I was immediately taken back to moments when I was a child and my parents probably wanted to flick me on the head for doing something trivial in public (Asian kid problems). Asian-Canadians further represented when Sandra Oh became the first Asian person to host the Golden Globes in 2019. And in the 2010s, it was more of the same gone supernova. She didnt take up a lot of space. Showing Editorial results for tatiana maslany. When Netflix dropped Always Be My Maybe in 2019, many expected the movie to be a fun vehicle for comedy superstar Ali Wong. By playing atypical Asians, both Liu and Jacinto have moved beyond being viewed as Asian actors because at the end of the day, they simply provide good comedy, showing that when actors are cast beyond racial profiles, we have more inclusive and positively entertaining TV. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre opens its 40th season. Dancer Greta Hodgkinson reflects on the rise and achievements of National Ballet of Canada artistic director Karen Kain over the 2010s. Is he at fault? There were hugs, claps and plenty of cheers on the set of the sci-fi series "Orphan Black" on Thursday as cast and crew members learned star Tatiana Maslany had scored a Golden Globe nomination. In the work, Xa and her husband and collaborator Benito Mayor Vellayo used masks, costumes and performance to conjure elements of Korean folklore and the orcas that are such an integral part of the Vancouver imaginary. Swiss Chalet, the Ottawa Senators and the SNC-Lavalin scandal are all also mentioned (seriously). In her seminal book Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, Margaret Atwood theorized that the central symbol in Canada, and therefore Canadian literature, was survival. By a ghost. Following this, they launched their first world tour, released two more albums and three EPs, and took home the award for group of the year at the 2018 Juno Awards. She had been rumored to have been dating Hines since 2020 and told Colbert that he was a great guy. Crushingly, Richard Wagamese passed away in March of that year. Tatiana Maslany knows from playing multiple roles on the same TV series. It was the most fun. As we approach the dawn of a new decade, I see the following future in my crystal ball/champagne flute: Canada is at the top of its onscreen game. The Hamilton native scored a Tony nomination for best featured actor in a musical for his portrayal of Cheech in the 2014 production of Bullets Over Broadway. That particular outdoor playgrounds been there for ages, but the funicular project, designed by architecture firm DIALOG, makes it even more accessible to citizens with the bonus of some very scenic touches. Unsurprisingly, it resonated: in September, Tagaq took home the Polaris Music Prize (where she also performed in front of a backdrop listing the names of missing and murdered Indigenous women, which was incredible, heartbreaking and rage-inducing since this crisis continues). . Josh Gad, dan Tatiana Maslany. So what happened to Tat in that decade between sets? Since her television debut, shes been praised for her interview style and evolving approach to monologues, and now the only barrier left is for viewers like me to learn how to stay up until 1:35 a.m. More women than ever before win Governor Generals Literary Awards. (Six years later, the National Gallery saw its largest-ever opening crowd for Sakahn's followup, badakone.). Women in the film industry went from being a thing? Shot in Toronto, the film racked up a slew of accolades including the award for best motion picture at the Canadian Screen Awards and a best actress Oscar for star Brie Larson and anointed Vancouvers young Jacob Tremblay as a wee star to watch. Turns out, Tegan and Sara can do anything but true blue fans already knew that. The Egyptian-Canadian actor worked with director Guy Ritchie to bring new life to an existing classic, and their efforts paid off: the film went on to surpass $1 billion US at the box office worldwide. Think of Ari Asters Hereditary and Midsommar both, incidentally, produced by A24, the same company that distributed The Witch. To the untrained eye (read: mine), the main building is a little like a modernist Imperial walker, rising above a cliff on tall, spindly legs. Like the most beautiful flowers that grow in the darkest of places, the Canadian drag scene in the 2010s has blossomed in ways that I dont think anyone could have ever predicted. I would get to know this person, work with them sometimes on that very stage. And when she tells Nathan she likes him, she acts like she means it nevermind the $350/hour fee. Torontos Buddies in Bad Times Theatre which bills itself as the largest and longest-running queer theatre in the world rang in its 40th season in September 2018. And yet, then came Art Angels. For the last 10 years, we just wanted to perform. Looking back, I realize that regardless of the set, if theres one time Tat has never said sorry, its between action and cut. Shes always been a fucking savage in the work itself, from her raw performance in 2010s Grown Up Movie Star to beating the shit out of Nicole Kidman in last years Destroyer. Instead of Washington State University, nave heroine Anastasia Steele hangs out on the University of British Columbia campus. It looks like something out of an Avengers flick: a steel double helix-like structure painted firetruck red. Its a dubious honour on both accounts and points to the wide array of work that needs to be done not only in Hollywood but also here at home. In the late aughts, there was nothing hotter than vampire romance, and by 2010, it was like someone had slashed an artery on the whole trend. While shes now a mainstay on the landscape of Canadian publishing, in 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published her first book, God Loves Hair a collection of 21 short stories that follow a child who navigates topics like gender, racial politics, sexuality and religion.
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