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Exciting! Entertaining! Enlightning & Avant Garde!
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Circus 2008
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| Vera David Heisler |
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| MCs Endre Farkas & Carolyn Marie Souaid. Photo: Michael Towe |
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| Noah Zacharin. Photo: Michael Towe |
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Noah Zacharin
He was born in Montreal and resides in Toronto. He was given his first guitar at age 9, wrote his first song at 13, began performing at 14, and is happy to say that he still loves playing music.
He has been called “a wonderful songwriter and performer, and stunning guitarist”, a “wonderful, adventurous guitarist” “a poet, a songwriter, a singer we have been waiting for" "a great guitarist/singer/songwriter…a wonderfully musical player” “in a league of his own” "one of the best songwriters this country has produced"
He has published hundreds of poems, translations, and reviews in periodicals and anthologies worldwide, and is currently at work on two volumes of poetry and several children’s books.
Statement:
I aspire to a close relationship with both the music and the listener. To this end I do my best to listen well, write true, play hard, and sing real.
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| Baseem Hassan, poet John Asfour, Carolyn Marie Souaid performing Asfour's poems. Photo: Michael Towe |
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John Asfour
He has published 5 books of poetry and is the translator of the landmark anthology entitled When Words Burn and Joy is not my profession, selected poems of Muhammad al-Maghut.
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| Spoken word Poet Kaie Kellough. Photo: Michael Towe |
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kaie kellough
mtl-based word sound systemizer, lit syncopator, author lettricity (cumulus 2004), co-editor talking book (cumulus 2006). kaie
has dubbed & inked his way across xanada & into the u.s. his words make
sound blue sense & be bop inflected.
Statement:
clarity, economy, rhythm: each line must be lean, muscled, rude as a jab snapped at your chin.
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| Cellist Philippe de Mius. Photo: Michael Towe |
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Nicole Brossard
Poète, romancière et essayiste, Nicole Brossard est née à Montréal, en 1943. Depuis la parution de son premier recueil, en 1965, elle a publié une trentaine de livres. Deux fois récipiendaire du Prix du Gouverneur général (1974, 1984) pour sa poésie, elle compte parmi les chefs de file d’une génération qui a renouvelé la poésie québécoise dans les années 70. En 2006, elle reçoit le Grand Prix Molson du Conseil des Arts du Canada. Ses livres sont traduits en plusieurs langues et lui valent aujourd’hui une réputation internationale. Elle vit à Montréal.
Statement:
"une exploratrice lucide au coeur des mots vivaces et du désir."
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| Poet Richard Sommer , Dancer Vicki Tansey, Photo: Michael Towe |
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Richard Sommer
Born in Minnesota, educated at the U of M and Harvard, came to Montreal in l962 and taught there at Sir George and Concordia for 34 years, so inevitably a focus in poems is on continuities, their disruptions & revelations. Live now in Eastern Townships, for family, music, breath.
Statement:
Poems owe something to rhythms of surf, breath, boughs, mutual sex, bird cries, but the struggle is to survive releasing this power, as communication through the narrow means of language. Rhythm, always, but constantly shifting, changing, always personal, for all but the poet through whom the words come.
Vicki Tansey
One of Canada’s leading pioneers in the art of improvisation, Vicki Tansey, dancer, singer & visual artist, has been performing & teaching for over 40 years. Trained in both classical & contemporary dance, she has been on the faculties of the National Theatre School of Canada, the Visual Arts Centre & Saidye Bronfman School of Fine Arts, & the Dance, Theatre & Fine Arts departments of Concordia University, Montreal. Co-founder of Pinnacle Mountain Centre for the Performing Arts in the Eastern Townships, she is the subject of an in-progress documentary film by Quebec artist Louise Abbot: Vicki Tansey: In the Moment, & is the creator & director of the on-going multi-disciplinary performance work, The Physical Choir Theatre Project.
Statement:
For me, improvisation is a second by second immersion into the physical, emotional & energetic qualities of each moment, in the moment. It is leaping, responding , waiting, letting go. It is the curiosity, excitement & receptivity to all of this, time & time again.
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| Videopoem by Tom Konyves. Photo: Michael Towe |
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Tom Konyves
Based in Montreal until 1983, Tom Konyves is one of the original Vehicule Poets; his work is distinguished by Dadaist, Surrealist, experimental writings, performance works and “videopoems”. In 1978, he coined the term “videopoetry” to describe his multimedia work, and is considered to be one of the original pioneers of the form.
Statement:
I would like to think that there exists a poetic state to which a poem aspires, an altered state of consciousness, a state altered by the poet’s ability to manipulate the form. I’m always after new forms for poems. I enjoy seeing a poem reflect simultaneity (when the poem becomes multi-directional, multi-layered) and the process of thought (when the poem includes disruptive elements).
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| Audience at the Sala Rossa. Photo: Michael Towe |
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Circus of Words/cirque des mots 2007
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| Poet Lucien Francoeur |
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Lucien Francoeur
a commencé à écrire à l’age de dix-huit ans. Fondateur du groupe rock Aut'chose afin d'étendre « le chant de sa poésie, » , il a donné des spectacles de poésie-rock partout au Québec, ainsi qu'à Paris, tout en continuant à publier des livres et à enregistrer des disques. Il a collaboré également aux revues Hobo-Québec, Possibles, Liberté, Estuaire et à certaines anthologies. Entre 1979 et 1982, il a été directeur de la collection « H » aux Éditions de l'Hexagone et il a conçu et animé une série de quatorze émissions sur la chanson rock et la poésie moderne sur les ondes de CKOI-FM (1980)
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| poet bill bissett |
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bill bissett
originalee from lunaria far past venus 312 sent on first shuttul 2 erth uv childrn th aim was hollywood we wer all 2 b child stars navigaysyun off a bit grew up in halifax alwayze wanting 2 b writr n paintr as second chois still love writing n painting have livd in vancouvr london n toronto
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ium always wanting 2 xploor mor th sounds u v langwage n th infinit meenings uv words theyr enerjeez n magik
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| Ms Communication the MC for the night |
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| Manu Trudel & Fabiola Toupin in rehearsal |
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Fabiola Toupin / Manu Trudel
se connaissent et travaillent ensemble depuis 1996. Tous deux de Trois-Rivières, et possédant des carrières solo, ils se lient d’amitié et rapidement, développent une grande complicité. Les compositions de Manu deviennent le nouveau répertoire de Fabiola. Leur passion commune pour la poésie les amènent à transformer certains poèmes en chanson, ce qui permet à Fabiola de nourrir son amour des mots et à Manu d’excercer sont grand talent de compositeur. Depuis, ils ont présenté de nombreux spectacles au Québec, en France et en Espagne. Ce sont des artistes qui aiment la rencontre avec le public; leur plaisir est contagieux.
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| Stephen Orlov & Karen Kaderavek in rehearsal |
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Karen Kaderavek
She enjoys a diverse and multi-faceted career. In addition to her professional life as a concert cellist, she is also a published poet, playwright and actress. As solo cellist and chamber music artist she has performed throughout North America and Europe.
Stephen Orlov
He began writing as an academic and free-lance journalist, covering war and social upheaval in Asia. His plays have been showcased in such theatre centres as Chicago, Toronto, London, and New York City. Stephen’s latest play, FREEZE, an allegorical comedy set during the Quebec ice storm, was a box office hit at the Centaur Theatre. Julia Pascal, the first woman director at England's National Theatre, produced and directed the world premiere of Stephen's play, SPERM COUNT, at London’s Old Red Lion Theatre. He is currently working on the sequel, entitled BIRTHMARKS.
Circus 2006
Lin Snelling
She continues to investigate, perform and teach improvisation which has cultivated an exploration into body work in relation to dance and the spoken and written word. Lin has performed with Carbone 14 (1989-2001) touring extensively, both nationally and internationally.
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| Bobo Vian |
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Bobo Vian
Last seen at the MAI in Q Art Theatre's Ratamacue and her creation of Mes chers amis... in the fall of 2005, Ms. vian has been acting in Canada for more than twenty years. She has performed a wide range of roles such as Antigone, Medea, Mother Courage, Mrs. Mozart, Lucifer and many more in the plays of Genet, Anouilh, Grecht, Calderon, Euripides, Feydeau, Kopit, Spiro, Martin Sherman, Boris Vian, Anthony Kokx and others throughout her carrier, that began a long time ago in Hungary.
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| Manijeh Ali & Shawn Mativetsky |
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Manijeh Ali,
Originally from Afghanistan, is the founder of Silken Dance. Manijeh has practiced traditional West African dance and has been studying Bharata Natyam, a classical Indian dance, for over a decade, performing with Danse Rasa from June 2002 to March 2005. Since 2001, Manijeh has devoted herself to exploring new dance vocabulary inspired by the art of Bharata Natyam in “My Body Knows You”, “Khajuraho”, and “Rythme en folie”, which were presented in Rasa (2001 – 2004). Her latest pieces include “To Your Rhythm!” (May 2005) and “Broken Heart” (September 2005). Currently, Manijeh is working on “Spirit of the Mountain”, a dance project dedicated to the land of Afghans.
Shawn Mativetsky
He is a ganda-band disciple of Pandit Sharda Sahai of the Benares tabla gharana and has also studied tabla with Bob Becker. Shawn holds a Master's degree in music from McGill University
Amanda Nolacea Harris,
She is of Mexican, Kickapoo, and Polish-Jewish descent, has taught US Latino/a Literature, Chicana Feminism, Composition, Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies and Spanish at the University of Illinois, UC Santa Barbara, and currently at Ohio University. Her most recent publications include critical articles on Mexican film in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, on Chicana poetry in Gale Thompson Press’s Latino Authors, and the critical introduction to her co-edited book Feminism, Nation and Myth: La with Arte Público Press. The presentation comes from the book-in-progress The Breakfast of the Dreamers co-written with Marylin Notah Verney, a Navajo Elder and scholar-activist from Cornfields New Mexico, and Amado J. Láscar, Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at Ohio University.
Amado Láscar,
Chilean ex-patriate of Arab, Italian and Jewish descent, has published several books of poetry and critical articles including the recent La enorme trompa del C5, a critical edition of Alberto Blest Gana’s 19th Century novel Mariluán with LOM press in Chile, “¿La teoría Zapatista: una huella en la selva o un camino en la resistencia anti-neoliberal?” in the Universidad Austral’s journal Alpha and “Zapatista Worldview” in the Encyclopedia of Religion, co-authored with is wife Amanda. He currently teaches Latin American Literature and Ideological Theory at Ohio University.
Statement
The Breakfast of the Dreamers address the history of Abya Yala—the Americas—and the interruption of harmonious and sustainable lifeways by the agents of Progress and Capital. This indigenous/indigenist, hemispheric critique of Western notions of Progress and Civilization uncovers the duplicity of political speak and seeks to recover the integrity of the word. Globalization, like other words of its kind—modernization, pacification, or industrialization—connote neutral, if not humanitarian processes in the world of mass media and consumer culture; that is to say we take them for granted without seeing their morphology and ideological weight. Such words appeal to First World consciousness, and we accept them, act upon them, and live with them as though they were trees that express the passage of time, the four seasons, years. In this performance, we attend the words carefully, look at the meaning attached to each root, prefix, and suffix, and reinsert them into our memory and our narrative of time, reestablishing the connection between word and deed, recovering meaning.
Benoît Paiement
(auteur et comédien ) Auteur, co-fondateur et interprète du Groupe de poésie moderne Benoît Paiement est diplômé en art dramatique. Outre les textes qu’il écrit pour le Gpm, Benoît Paiement est également l’auteur de nouvelles publiées dans plusieurs revues littéraires.
Bernard Dion
(auteur ) Co-fondateur (et pendant des années interprète) du Groupe de poésie moderne, Bernard Dion écrit pour le Gpm depuis les débuts de celui-ci. Son écriture est axée sur la déconstruction de la forme et la déformation du sens. Il a été délégué de l’UNEQ et a contribué à de nombreux événements littéraires et expositions d’art.
France Galarneau
actor) Her most recent film is “2 Seconds”.
CONSIDERATION SUR LE THEOUT
Au théout, l’important c’est le repetition. Avé le metteur en sc. Il arrive et dit : repetez. Mais si tu connais pas ton memerisation, c’est duffucile. Aussi, avant rentrer sur la stage, y faut tu ma du poud’ su ton nez, pis tu changes da castume.
Circus of Words/cirque des mots
2005
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| Poet rocker Dominique Corneillier |
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Dominique Corneillier
Il est né à St-Gabriel-de-Brandon en 1977. Il enseigne la littérature au Cégep Régional de Lanaudière. Son troisième recueil, La règle et la délicatesse, paraît ces jours-ci aux Éditions Adage.
Statement:
Réflexive, la poésie de Dominique interroge le langage comme lieu esthétique d'une hétérogénéité constitutive. Entre discours social et contemplation, il tente de rendre compte d'une illumination mystique entièrement vécue comme expérience sociologique.
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| Actors Jennifer Moorehouse, & France Rolland |
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Sedna Reconfigured (Jennifer Boire / Carolyn Marie Souaid)
Sedna Reconfigured is the retelling of an Inuit Sea Goddess myth based on a text from ‘Snow Formations’ by Carolyn Marie Souaid. In this bilingual adaptation, Jo Leslie bridges the distance between poetry, music and theatre.
France Rolland, a Montreal actor, has worked with numerous theatre companies and was last seen in Bye Bye Baby with Imago Theatre.
Jennifer Morehouse is a stage performer (Dora Mavor Moore and Betty Mitchell nominations), voice/performance instructor, and student of linguistics and psychology at McGill University. Her latest role was that of Stevie, in the Centaur production of Edward Albee's The Goat.
Jo Leslie (Director) works as a movement director and coach, choreographer and assistant director in theatres across Canada. Formerly an independent dance artist, she also taught at the National Theatre School for 10 years.
Jennifer Boire (Producer / Dramaturge) is a Montreal poet. This is her first stab at taking poetry from the page to the stage.
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| Poet Ian Ferrier |
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Ian Ferrier is one of the core poet/performers in the North American performance literature scene. His first CD/book Exploding Head Man was released by Planète Rebelle press to national acclaim.
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| Poet Helene Dorion |
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Hélène Dorion est née à Québec. Son œuvre, traduite dans une douzaine de pays, lui a valu plusieurs prix littéraires décernés au Québec et à l’étranger. Elle a été directrice des éditions du Noroît, critique, professeure de littérature, écrivain en résidence à l’UQAM et à l’Université de Montréal, en plus de collaborer à la rédaction de nombreuses revues. Elle fait partie de L’Académie Mondiale de Poésie.
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Endre Farkas.
"Canada Day." PoemScape. Ed. Endre
Farkas. Montreal: Editorial Poetas
Antiimperialistas de América. Jul 1, 2005.
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