Stir Pairing: An outdoor dance pop-up on Granville Island kicks off fall
New Works presents performances outside the Public Market; we make a day of it with Popina Cantina and a Prosecco-style wine from Hester Creek
Dance artist Marco Esccer. Photo by David Flores Rubio
Popina Cantina (left); Hester Creek Estate Winery 2020 Ti Amo.
Every week, Stir Pairing suggests B.C. wine and food to go with a local arts event.
The event
New Works and CMHC Granville Island present Pop-up Outdoor Presentations September 25 at the Public Market Courtyard from 1 to 3 pm PDT.
The food
Takeout from Popina Cantina, Granville Island Net Loft
The pairing
Hester Creek Estate Winery 2020 Ti Amo
The lowdown
September 22 is the first day of autumn. Following its annual Summer Dance & Music presentation on Granville Island this past August, New Works kicking off fall with the Pop-up Outdoor Presentation in partnership with CMHC Granville Island.
Interdisciplinary local artist Salomé Nieto will present excerpts of a forthcoming full-length work called Impermanent Flower. Combining storytelling, illustration, and butoh, the piece is inspired by a prominent image in butoh of a wilting flower; its beauty is found not in its blossom but in the process of dying.
Nieto—who, as a freelance dancer works with Kokoro Dance, Donna Redlick Dance, and Raven Spirit Dance—also draws from Mexican surrealism in her choreography.
Co.ERASGA, founded by Alvin Erasga Tolentino, will share a collection of solo works in Offering, which evokes a spiritual yearning for universal connectedness.
And in Possibilities: Embodied Poetry, Marco Esccer and Ysadora Días—both dancers with Coastal City Ballet—will interpret a selection of poems that touch on everything from love to madness.
The fare
While we’re on Granville Island, we’re going to pop over to Popina Cantina, the sister restaurant to Popina Canteen. (The Cantina is in the Net Loft; the Canteen is the outfit’s original GI location—in a dockside shipping container.) Helmed by a powerhouse culinary quartet made up of esteemed local chefs Angus An, Robert Belcham, Hamid Salimian, and Joël Watanabe, the Cantina specializes in topnotch tacos made with premium local ingredients. Among the options: char sui pork shoulder carnitas (made with slow- spit-roasted and braised local pork); roasted beef belly; crispy herb falafel with labneh and sumac; and lamb shoulder with chickpeas. Other things on the menu include taquitos, a breakfast burrito, and more.
The pairing
The change of seasons seems as good a reason as any to pop a cork.
Hester Creek 2020 Ti Amo is the second vintage of the Prosecco-style wine from this Oliver-based estate winery, one of the oldest in the South Okanagan and a pioneer on the Golden Mile Bench, with classic varietals going back to 1968. Made with hand-picked Pinot Gris, Gewürztraminer, and Sémillon grapes, the frizzante had a 28-day cool ferment in stainless steel then was re-fermented for 30 days in tank in the classic Charmat-Martinotti method. It’s fresh, lively, balanced, and not overly sweet, a little citrusy, even—perfect with a Popina taco of, say, black pepper chicken with sautéed peppers and onions.
Ti Amo is part of Hester Creek’s new Foundation Wines portfolio. (The three other tiers consist of the Source Collection, Storied Series, and Origin Wines.) This semi-sparkling wine is a celebratory pour that comes in at $19.99 online or at the winery.
Here’s to a satiating arts-filled fall.
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