Abstract
“The Hidden Costs of Aspiring to Global City Status” examines the selection of The Blue Dragon, a sequel to The Dragons’ Trilogy crafted for the international festival circuit by Robert Lepage and Ex Machina, as a top-billed event in Vancouver’s 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Contextualized by the mega-event legacy of development in Vancouver, including the sale of Expo land to the wealthy Hong-Kong businessman Li Ka-shing and the post-Olympics spike in real estate twenty-five years later, this essay interrogates the ways in which The Blue Dragon represents the West’s uneasy relationship with a rapidly globalizing China and highlights the ethos driving contemporary racial tensions in Vancouver.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 78-82 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Canadian Theatre Review |
Volume | 164 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 30 Oct 2015 |
Keywords
- Vancouver after 2010
- Robert Lepage
- Mega-event impacts
- performance