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Founded by Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier, the Belgium-based Peeping Tom obliterates the border between theatre and dance, roping together a hyperrealist aesthetic with real-world settings to fashion a disquieting mix of performance genres.<\/p>\n
With elements of film noir, dark comedy, and foley-effects, the work undermines the seeming solidity of actual places (a ship\u2019s cabin, a banal hallway) with nightmare logic. Within the slip and slide of altered perceptions and an unreliable narrative, the characters act out a series of increasingly bizarre scenarios. Coherence and stability fracture, then shatter, as theatrical conceits are revealed to be just that.<\/p>\n
As the story shapeshifts in real time, peeling back the layers of cinematic convention to pose unsettling questions about the nature of reality, nothing is as it seems.<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"peeping-tom","image":false,"all_day":false,"start_date":"2025-04-24 20:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"04","day":"24","hour":"20","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2025-04-26 17:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"04","day":"26","hour":"17","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2025-04-25 03:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"04","day":"25","hour":"03","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2025-04-27 00:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"04","day":"27","hour":"00","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"America\/Vancouver","timezone_abbr":"PDT","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"","currency_code":"","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Performance","slug":"performance","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":7,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":350,"filter":"raw","id":7,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/thedancecentre.ca\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/7","collection":"https:\/\/thedancecentre.ca\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":[],"organizer":[],"custom_fields":{"_ecp_custom_2":{"label":"Genre","value":"Contemporary|Multiple Genres|Theatre"},"_ecp_custom_3":{"label":"Region","value":"Vancouver Coast & Mountains"}},"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"Peeping Tom","description":"<p>Recalling the shifting surrealism of filmmaker David Lynch, the paired works of\u00a0Diptych\u00a0(The missing door\u00a0and\u00a0The lost room) bring together a collection of odd and archetypal individuals <a href="https:\/\/thedancecentre.ca\/event\/peeping-tom\/">Read more<\/a><\/p>\\n","url":"https:\/\/thedancecentre.ca\/event\/peeping-tom\/","eventAttendanceMode":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OfflineEventAttendanceMode","eventStatus":"https:\/\/schema.org\/EventScheduled","startDate":"2025-04-24T20:00:00-07:00","endDate":"2025-04-26T17:00:00-07:00","performer":"Organization"},"ticketed":false,"is_virtual":false,"virtual_url":null,"virtual_video_source":""}