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Student Matinee

SCOOOOOTCH!

Playful performance for scotch tape

May 29 - 31, 2024

Azrieli Studio 1 Elgin Street Ottawa Canada

© Caroline Robert and Vincent Morisset – Studio AATOAA

01.-choix-1-web-scoooootchfreydeyric-lovino — © Frédéric Lovino

02.-choix-2-web-scoooootchfreydeyric-lovino — © Frédéric Lovino

03.-choix-3-web-scoooootchliana-parey — © Liana Paré

04.-choix-web-4-scoooootchliana-parey — © Liana Paré

05.-choix-5-web-scoooootchliana-parey — © Liana Paré

06.-choix-6-web-scoooootchfreydeyric-lovino — © Frédéric Lovino

In-person event
Ages 2-8
≈ 35 minutes

Performance options	Start time	Language	Availability
Wednesday, May 29, 2024	9:15 am	Without words	Reserve
Wednesday, May 29, 2024	11:00 am	Without words	sold out
Thursday, May 30, 2024	9:45 am	Without words	Reserve
Friday, May 31, 2024	9:45 am	Without words	Reserve

“Rockin’ an adhesive style”

A trio of girls with a rock-singer look about them, about as frail and delicate as three footballers in the final seconds of a game, create a space for art and play before our eyes. Something like a small sound and sensory theatre built with a wonderfully sticky material: Scoooootch tape!

The entire show is created using just five rolls of (recyclable) adhesive tape, household objects, instruments, microphones, and a whole lot of daring to hold it all together. Who would have thought that ordinary scotch tape could make music, underpin pathways and shelters, or support the world by acting as a pulley?

A super playful demonstration that ordinary materials can become art when combined with human creativity. It’s also a touching illustration of the many, sometimes almost invisible, connections between and among us. This show will stick with you!

Without words • Ages 2+ • intimate show

Artists

Conceived and directed by Amélie Poirier

Conceived and directed by
Amélie Poirier

A multidisciplinary creator, Amélie Poirier initially trained in dance before discovering theatre and puppetry. She studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mézières, France, and has a DESS (diploma in specialized graduate studies) in contemporary puppet theatre from UQAM in Montréal.

After a career as a performer and designer of performative and auto-fictional plays, she began writing for young children in 2019 with the play DADAAA, for which she was awarded the Beaumarchais-SACD (Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques) grant. Since its creation, this show has been presented nearly 200 times in Europe. Her second play for young children, SCOOOOTCH!, premiered in 2021 in France and Quebec, each production featuring a local cast. The show has since been presented nearly 150 times in France, Quebec and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, etc.). Her next creation, 20ème rue ouest (2023), a blend of dance, photography and puppetry, is intended for audiences age 12 and up and will be performed in public spaces. Amélie’s research is supported in France by Les Nouveaux Ballets du Nord-Pas de Calais based in Lille, and in Quebec by Synthèse Additive in Montréal. Amélie is also an associate artist at the Théâtre des Ilets: Centre Dramatique National de Montluçon-Auvergne and the Théâtre le Grand Bleu: scène conventionnée art, enfance et jeunesse de Lille.

Créatrice pluridisciplinaire, Amélie Poirier se forme initialement en danse avant de découvrir le théâtre et les arts de la marionnette. Elle étudie à l’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette (Charleville-Mézières, France) et est diplômée du DESS en théâtre de marionnette contemporain de l’UQAM à Montréal.

Après un parcours en tant qu’interprète et conceptrice de pièces performatives et auto-fictives, elle commence à créer à destination de la petite enfance en 2019 avec la pièce DADAAA pour laquelle elle est lauréate de la bourse Beaumarchais-SACD (Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques). Depuis sa création, ce spectacle a été présenté près de 200 fois en Europe. Sa deuxième création à destination de la petite enfance, SCOOOOOTCH !, a vu le jour en 2021 en France et au Québec avec deux distributions locales. Ce spectacle a depuis été présenté près de 150 fois en France, au Québec et en Europe de l’Est (Bulgarie, Slovénie, Serbie, Croatie, etc.). Sa prochaine création intitulée 20ème rue ouest (2023) destinée aux spectacteurs et spectatrices de 12 ans et plus-sera créée en espace public et mêle danse, photographie et arts de la marionnette. La recherche d’Amélie est portée en France par Les Nouveaux Ballets du Nord-Pas de Calais basés à Lille et au Québec par Synthèse Additive à Montréal. Amélie est par ailleurs artiste associée au Théâtre des Ilets : Centre Dramatique National de Montluçon-Auvergne et le Théâtre le Grand Bleu : scène conventionnée art, enfance et jeunesse de Lille.

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Conceived and directed by Amélie Poirier
With Mélanie Baillairgé, Marika Karlsson and Myriame Larose
Dramaturgical consultants Lyly Chartiez-Mignauw and Dinaïg Stall
Sets Philémon Vanorlé
Sound Mariane Berthault
Lighting Henri-Emmanuel Doublier
Construction of forms Audrey Robin, Mélanie Baillairgé, Gabrielle Chabot and Elisabeth Bosquet
Construction of bases Romain Crivellari and Pauline Caenen
Co-creators Mariane Berthault, Clémentine Vanlerberghe and Audrey Robin, Amélie Poirier, Carine Gualdaroni, Mélanie Baillairgé, Marika Karlsson and Myriame Larose
Producer Synthèse Additive (QC)
Co-producer Les Nouveaux Ballets du Nord-Pas de Calais (FR)
Production partners La Minoterie SC de Dijon, Culture Commune : SN du Bassin Minier, Le Grand Bleu SC de Lille, Créa-Festival MOMIX, Nova Villa : Festival Méli’Mômes à Reims, Théâtre du Nord / CDN de Lille-Tourcoing and Le Cube, Montréal
Supporters DRAC et Région Hauts-de-France, Département du Pas-de-Calais, ADAMI, Institut Français / Ville de Lille, le Cube (Montréal): Centre international de recherche et de création pour l’enfance et la jeunesse du réseau Petits Bonheurs (QC), Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Conseil des Arts de Montréal

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