SEARCHING Sometimes it seems like

we were sent to the wrong place on life's
errand, and the person we were supposed
to meet isn't on this planet. But if the
course of pairing up always ran smoothly,
what would playwrights write about? Just
how complicated it can get is one of the fun
parts of William S hakepeare's Love's
Labour's Lost, wittily being presented by
Bard on the Beach at Vanier Park. Daniel
Maclvor's 2-2-Tongo was nominated for a
Chalmers Award, and its take on gay
mating rituals is at the Odyssey Nightclub
until next Sunday Uuly 13). Visitors to
Vancouver who want to discover how we
look at ourselves can find out at this
summer's TheatreSports improvisational
comedy, See B.C., at the Arts Club New
Revue Stage starting Thursday Quly 3), and
running Wednesday to Saturday each week.

Denis Simpson and Shawn Macdon ald explore the frustrations that are

GETTING WARM At a time of year part of any relationship in the comic 2-2-Tango, at the Odyssey to July 13.
when our idea of exercise is to turn over and reapply the sunscreen,
we have to admire the energy of dancers. They are aspiring and
perspiring at Dancing on the Edge, the ninth annual celebration of
new dance. This year it features the Compagnie Marie Chouinard as
well as works by more than 30 Canadian and U.S. choreographers. It
is at the Firehall Arts Centre until next Saturday Quly 12), and at the
Vancouver Playhouse Friday and Saturday Quly 4 and 5). At the
EDAM Studio, Performance has Peter Bingham, Marc Boivin, Coat
Cooke, and Andrew Harwood improvising moves on Friday and
Saturday Quly 4 and 5). Irish dancers from around the world are at
the Hyatt Regency Saturday to Wednesday Quly 5 to 9)-for the
North American Irish Dance Championships, so step to it.

ARTISTIC FINDS Unrealized public-art projects for

Vancouver, a category that in a better world would include the

Terry Fox arch, manifest themselves in the exhibition The
Ghost in the Machine at the Charles H. Scott Gallery. At the
Evergreen Cultural Centre, Birds Without Fe a thers: The
Kite has traditional kites from Asia as well as rokkaku kites
painted by 15 B.C. artists. The Group Show at the Third
Avenue Gallery includes Eve Leader, Martin Borden, and the
ever-intriguing Carel Moiseiwitsch, and opens on Thursday Quly
3). Fun and interesting pop-culture commentator 12 Midnite will
have recent hot rod-themed works on sale in The· R o a d to
Ruin at the Helen Pitt Gallery, with proceeds to combat Canada
Council funding cuts, and the show opens with a reception on
Friday Quly 4). One last opening is for Grahame Arnould's
C_artoon Art, a collection of gags and drawings for newspapers,
books, and magazines that can be seen at the Brackendale Art
Gallery north of Squamish starting Sunday 0uly 6).