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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.
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.
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.
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!
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.