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Dérive de nuit

Interdisciplinary journey

Apr 3 - 5, 2024

Azrieli Studio 1 Elgin Street Ottawa Canada

Caroline Robert and Vincent Morisset - Studio AATOAA

In-person event
Français
Ages 9-14
Approx. 1 hour

Performance options	Start time	Language	Availability
Wednesday, April 3, 2024	10:00 am	French	Seats available
Thursday, April 4, 2024	10:00 am	French	Seats available
Friday, April 5, 2024	10:00 am	French	Seats available

“Hunting for your treasure”

The ship’s foghorn sounds: now boarding for a trip to an island known as the Cemetery of the Gulf, the terror of sailors. This nocturnal excursion in the form of a live poetic performance can be undertaken on your own or with your family, but you’ll have to be prepared to lose your bearings a little ... in order better to find yourself.

We follow the trail of a mysterious woman on her way to the unknown. Along her drifting path, she meets a treasure hunter, a mischievous girl, three nuns, and even a wrecked piano! We never see this woman, but she’s always there, described by four magnificent stage performers who bring her to life through their stories at the microphone, their drawings on a light table, their songs, and the guitar and harmonium.

In this dream-like show, we listen to the melting ice and imagine unspoiled lands, filled with deer and unusual stones that we turn over to discover vestiges of shipwrecks, or traces of ourselves.

In French ● Ages 9+

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$ 9 / student (HST included)

Financial assistance

Arts Alive has limited financial aid available for schools in need which may cover, for example, the cost of workshops, tickets, or transport to matinees. Schools may request financial assistance on their registration form, and will be asked to briefly explain their financial need. An Arts Alive representative will follow-up with all schools requesting financial assistance.

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Adults & chaperones

1 Free adult per 15 students

Free admittance for special needs assistants

$ 9 (HST included) for additional chaperons At the discretion of the National Arts Centre

Payment deadlines

3 weeks before the performance

Full payment is required by the payment deadline. The NAC reserves the right to cancel any orders submitted but not paid for by the payment deadline.

Seating

There are no reserved seats for NAC student matinee performances.

Instead of tickets you will receive a letter of admission and groups will be seated on a first-come, first-served basis at the performance.

The letter of admission will be issued upon receipt of full payment.

If you have any questions, please contact us at education@nac-cna.ca

Artists

Creation and adaptation Anne-Marie Guilmaine
Creation and adaptation Anne-Marie Guilmaine

For over ten years, Anne-Marie Guilmaine has been developing a stage writing practice that incorporates performance, visual installation and relational art. With the interdisciplinary company Système Kangourou, which she co-founded in 2006 with Claudine Robillard, she creates shows rooted in the encounter between performers and audience. As shown by Non Finito (2017), Le pouvoir expliqué à ceux qui l’exercent (sur moi) (2019) and Bermudes (dérive) (2021), she is interested in casting non-actors who share their own stories within a score that interweaves performative actions and multi-layered images. With a master’s degree in theatre and another in literature, Anne-Marie is interested in approaches that are grounded in reality.
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Creation and Interpretation Claudine Robillard

Creation and Interpretation Claudine Robillard

Claudine Robillard is particularly fond of practices that are difficult to categorize, those that emerge at the intersection of theatre, performance, dance, sociology and visual arts. After completing a master’s degree at the École supérieure de théâtre de l’UQAM, Claudine co-founded Système Kangourou with Anne-Marie Guilmaine. She performs in most of the company’s shows and site-specific projects, and co-writes some of them.

Alongside her involvement with Système Kangourou, Claudine has worked as a performer or dramaturg and stage advisor with several choreographers, including Jacques Poulin-Denis, Andréa de Keijzer and Hélène Langevin.

Eager to share her passion for the living arts and to open her practice to atypical artists, from 2016 to 2019 she taught at Les Muses: centre des arts de la scène, a professional training school for neurodiverse individuals. Energized by her experiences with these unconventional artists, since 2018 she has been devoting part of her time to redesigning the school’s training program and developing various projects with a view to creating openings in the cultural community to make it more inclusive.

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Sets and Interpretation Julie Vallée-Léger

Sets and Interpretation Julie Vallée-Léger

Julie Vallée‑Léger graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada’s set design program in 2002. She completed her training by assisting set designers Jean Rabasse at Cirque du Soleil and Stéphane Roy on music-hall and opera projects, then by working as a set designer on several film and television projects, as a designer for Radio-Canada, and as an exhibition designer for architects Lupien and Matteau and for GSM Project.

Julie’s practice focuses on set design and writing for theatre, research in object theatre, and the manipulation of raw materials. She has designed sets for several companies, including notably Théâtre de la Pire Espèce (with which she has been experimenting since 2007), as well as Mammifères, Système Kangourou, Marcelle Hudon, the Festival du Jamais Lu, Le Clou!, and the Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, among others.

She is also an illustrator, creating posters, comics and printed objects. Her favourite medium is linocut.

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Music and interpretation Karine Sauvé
Music and interpretation Karine Sauvé

Impressive Theatre Animal

A human animal unique among our local artistic fauna, Karine Sauvé is an actress, puppeteer and director of Mammifères, an interdisciplinary company that produces innovative shows for young audiences, including Les Grands-Mères mortes (winner of the Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre award), presented at the NAC in 2015. A UQAM graduate in puppet theatre, she has collaborated as a performer or designer on creations by artists in all disciplines (David Paquet, Nicolas Letarte, Nathalie Derome). If you were to write a lexicon to describe her practice, you’d have to include the words: contemporary art, modern music, organic matter, laughter, vocals, poetry, fur!
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Music and interpretation Frédéric Auger

Music and interpretation Frédéric Auger

Frédéric Auger is interested in the creation of a living sound material, performed live. In recent years, his activities have focused on the creation of immersive sound environments in a performative context. He uses sampling, reproduction, dynamic processing as well as the possibilities of spatialization and live transformation of sound objects and bodies. His practice is organically integrated into the dramaturgy and the creative and experimental process of the artists with whom he associates.

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Created by Système Kangourou, loosely based on the film Bermudes (nord) directed by Claire Legendre
Adapted for the stage Anne-Marie Guilmaine (with the participation of the performers)
With Claudine Robillard as the paths, Julie Vallée-Léger as the humours, Frédéric Auger as the landscapes, and Karine Sauvé as the winds
Sets Julie Vallée-Léger
Music Frédéric Auger et Karine Sauvé
Lighting Marie-Aube St-Amant Duplessis
Images Claire Legendre, for the film "Bermudes (nord)" – cinematography by Franck Le Coroller
Dramaturgical consultant Mélanie Dumont
Costumes Jeanne Dupré
Technical director Gabriel Duquette
Production manager Andrée-Anne Garneau
Producer Système Kangourou
Supporters Espace Libre, La Chapelle – Scènes contemporaines, Théâtre du Tandem, le Cube, Maison de la culture de Pointe-aux-Trembles, Productions Recto-Verso, Conseil des Arts de Montréal, Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec

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