Francophone
Theatre
Youth
Workshops
Children
Visual Arts
Virtual
Ages 10-14
Offered in French only
Art in all its forms
By signing your class up for this project, you and your students will have the opportunity to explore Chansons pour le musée, the poetic, theatrical and new wave world of Karine Sauvé’s exciting hybrid museum. After viewing a recording of the show, your students, with the help of an educational kit, will learn all about how her work was put together, followed by a spontaneous writing and contemporary art appreciation workshop.
PART 1 – The show: Class screening of Chansons pour le musée
Length: 60 minutes
It’s as if you were entering a museum through the back door when that’s not allowed. No, make that the upside-down door! Alone, in the middle of the night, Karine-Pas-Sauvé sees some strange sculptures. The mysterious skeleton of a psychologist has told her to sing as loud as she can when anyone approaches her, as a way of soothing her after a painful separation and a shattered family cocoon. On stage with her is the noisy Nicolas Letarte-Bersianik at the controls of his sound equipment colouring the space with his electrifying music.
A link to the recording will be sent to you a few days before the viewing date.
With Karine Sauvé and Nicolas Letarte-Bersianik // Directed by Anne-Marie Guilmaine and Karine Sauvé // Music and sound design Nicolas Letarte-Bersianik // Music arrangements Karine Sauvé // Set and costume design Julie Vallée-Léger and Karina Sauvé // Lighting Leticia Hamaoui // Technical direction Gabriel Duquette // Production manager Catherine Renaud // Costume assistant Mélanie Charest // A Mammifères production
The virtual workshop will take place a day or two after the viewing.
Imagine sneaking into a museum at night, all alone, to have a look at artworks that are increasingly mysterious, peculiar and intriguing… There are paintings, sculptures and installations by contemporary artists. You’re asked to write down your impressions, as spontaneously as possible, in response to poetic questions designed to hone your sensitivities, imagination and observational skills. What’s that work all about? What’s this one celebrating? What has this one just seen or heard?
This spontaneous writing and contemporary art appreciation workshop, inspired by Karine Sauvé’s creative approach, is an introduction to contemporary art.
Learning objectives:
Appreciate and interpret works of contemporary art.
Develop and communicate ideas, sensations, emotions and inner images in response to artworks.
Appreciate aspects of one’s own written responses and those of one’s classmates and speak about them.
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!
Belle bête de scène
Animal humain unique dans la faune artistique d’ici, Karine Sauvé est comédienne, marionnettiste et dirige Mammifères, une compagnie interdisciplinaire qui produit des spectacles éclatés destinés au jeune public, dont Les Grands-Mères mortes (prix de l’Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre) présenté au CNA en 2015. Diplômée en théâtre de marionnette de l’UQAM, elle collabore comme interprète ou conceptrice aux créations d’artistes de toutes disciplines (David Paquet, Nicolas Letarte, Nathalie Derome). Si l’on écrivait un lexique pour décrire sa pratique, il faudrait y mettre les mots: art contemporain, musique actuelle, matière organique, rires, voix, poésie, poils!
Nicolas Letarte-Bersianik is a multi-multi-instrumentalist—“multi” twice, because in addition to being a wizard on drums, synthesizers and guitar, he builds his own sound and sound effects machines, not to mention mastering the acoustic and electric musical saw like nobody’s business.
He composes music for film, dance and theatre (notably for Robert Lepage’s company Ex Machina), and plays in the popular Montréal-based band Fanfare Pourpour. At the NAC, he has appeared as both an actor and a musician in Les grands-mères mortes and Mini-chansons pour le musée by the company Mammifères.
Musicien pieuvre
Nicolas Letarte-Bersianik est un multi-multi-instrumentiste : deux fois « multi » puisqu’en plus d’être un as de la batterie, des synthétiseurs et de la guitare, il fabrique ses propres machines à sons et à bruitage, sans compter qu’il maîtrise comme personne la scie musicale acoustique et électrique.
Il compose de la musique pour le cinéma, la danse et le théâtre, notamment pour Ex Machina (Robert Lepage), et joue dans la célèbre fanfare Pourpour. Au CNA, on a pu le voir performer à la fois comme acteur et musicien-bidouilleur dans Les grands-mères mortes et Mini-chansons pour le musée de la compagnie Mammifères.
As a child, David Paquet would make up stories for his three faithful imaginary friends. That love of storytelling took him to the National Theatre School, where he studied writing. In 2010, audiences discovered his unique voice and dark humour in Porcupine (Governor General’s Literary Award, Michel Tremblay Prize). For teenage audiences, he wrote 2 h 14 and Appels entrants illimités, and co-wrote Les grands-mères mortes, presented at the NAC in 2015. That same year he ventured onto the stage with his poetic solo show,Papiers mâchés. Histoires à plumes et à poils is his first play for children.
Fin raconteur
Enfant, David Paquet avait trois fidèles amis imaginaires pour qui il inventait des histoires. Ce goût de raconter l’a mené aux portes de l’École nationale de théâtre pour étudier l’écriture. En 2010, le public découvre sa plume singulière et son humour décapant avec Porc-épic (Prix du Gouverneur général du Canada, Prix Michel-Tremblay). Il écrit pour les ados 2 h 14 et Appels entrants illimités, et cosigne Les grands-mères mortes, jouée au CNA en 2015. Cette année-là, il ose les planches avec son propre stand-up poétique, Papiers mâchés. Histoires à plumes et à poils est sa première incursion dans l’écriture pour les plus jeunes.
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.
Anne-Marie Guilmaine développe depuis plus de dix ans une pratique d’autrice scénique teintée par la performance, l'installation visuelle et l'art relationnel. Avec la compagnie interdisciplinaire Système Kangourou qu’elle cofonde en 2006 avec Claudine Robillard, elle crée des spectacles ancrés dans la rencontre entre performeurs et spectateurs. Que ce soit avec Non Finito (2017), Le pouvoir expliqué à ceux qui l’exercent (sur moi) (2019) ou Bermudes (dérive) (2021), elle s’intéresse à la présence de non-acteurs sur scène qui partagent leurs propres récits au cœur de partitions tissées d’actions performatives et d’images plurivoques. Détentrice d’une maîtrise en théâtre et d’une autre en littérature, Anne-Marie s’intéresse aux démarches chevillées au réel.
Your donations through the NAC's National Youth and Education Trust help the NAC provide learning and engagement opportunities for all — from young children in the classroom, to artists, to the lifelong learner.
Learning and engagement at Canada’s National Arts Centre is made possible through the support of many generous individuals and organizations from across the country. Arts Alive is generously supported by the Azrieli Foundation, the Government of Nunavut, Canadian North, Calm Air, The River Philip Foundation, The Turnbull Family Community Building Foundation, and The Thomas Sill Foundation. Thank you also to Grant and Alice Burton, Canada Life, A Donor-Advised Fund at the Community Foundation of Ottawa, Friends of the NAC Orchestra, Donors to the NAC Foundation's Future Fund, The Janice and Earle O’Born Fund for Artistic Excellence, and the donors and sponsors of the NAC’s National Youth and Education Trust, the primary resource for youth and education funding at the National Arts Centre.
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