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SHHH!! Ensemble
September 13, 2021The National Arts Centre’s Free Rein artistic residency allowed us to make the most of our time at the Banff Centre’s inaugural Evolution: Classical career development program. With the NAC’s support we were able to continue our creative work nestled in the Eardley Escarpment at the…
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Quelque chose de la lenteur
September 7, 2021This interview took place in St-Pierre-de-Wakefield on Friday, July 30, 2021, as part of the Champ libre creative residency hosted by the National Arts Centre (NAC) French Theatre. Present at the meeting were Karina Pawlikowski and Julien Morissette, accompanied by author and friend…
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Sarasaraahat
September 1, 2021I spent a week in the Megantic region to advance the composition of sarasaraahat, a solo cello piece commissioned by Julia MacLaine. Coincidentally, she is the assistant principal cello of the NAC Orchestra! Julia invited 6 Canadian composers to compose a work related to one of the 6…
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STUFF
September 1, 2021It began as a game: Without worrying about the “why”, I tasked a group of teens to pick an object and to defend its existence, from the point of view of the object. Their stuff of choice fought for their lives: a Trash Bag, the Cell phone, Toilet Paper, a Book Jacket, Invisalign, an…
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La petite maison
September 1, 2021Inspired by Noëlle Renaude’s play of the same name, La petite maison is a theatrical installation in which voices meet, merge and coalesce. Sometimes the work itself begins to speak, but more often than not, it remains silent and lets others speak ... Belgian-Israeli designer and…
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Dernière frontière
September 1, 2021Dernière Frontière is a Yukon-Quebec co-creation (Véronique Lachance, Yukon and Théâtre Everest, Quebec) that examines the dissonance between the desire to escape, the real attraction of the Great North and the phenomenon of romanticizing the Yukon. Between myth and reality, the project…
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G’zaagiin - Je te promets une forêt
July 23, 2021*English and French subtitles available An Abitibi experimental cellist, an Anishinabeg actress and traditional musician, and a Polish-born director, guided by the seasons and the Indigenous Medicine Wheel, to create an immersive space full of sounds, textures and poetic movement, where…
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Savèches à fragmentation
June 14, 2021If you let bodies speak, they say what they have to say. This time of movement dramaturgy on Savèches was an awakening of the bodies. Living bodies to transmit this rich poem.Monique Léger, movement dramaturg For ten days, we had the privilege of forming a creative bubble to explore the…
