Rivières

Rivières is a series of documentary performances about the resident of Côte-des-Neiges. This project brought together eight citizens from this very multi-ethnic neighbourhood, and invited the public to wander through the Côte-des-Neiges Community Recreation Centre to meet them and listen to their stories. Rivières created unexpected encounters between these citizens and their public, with some telling their stories to each other and others listening to them for the first time.

Sofia Blondin biography

Kiviuq’s return- An Inuit Epic

Is an Inuit collective creation carried by the Qaggit Artic Theatre Company, which has toured in several Canadian cities. With no Inuit theatre space to speak of and wanting more than anything to share the stories they had learned as children, the creative artists went to visit the elders known as the “Inumariit” and whom the company describes as “the last indigenous Canadian people to have lived their lives traditionally on the land”. It was they who taught them the history of Kiviuq, the legendary Inuit hunter. Combining traditional throat singing, music, the use of moving images and of course theater, Kiviuq return toured several Canadian cities.

Carlos Rivera biography

Carlos Rivera is an actor, dancer, choreographer, teacher and a director, originally from Mexico City. He is Mixteco and Nahua Indigenous descent. Graduated from Mexico’s City School of Dance and later attended the Center for Choreographic Research at the Mexican Fine Arts Institute. He collaborated for 16 years as Associate Artist for Red Sky Performance and had the opportunity to travel around the world. Carlos was involved several times on The Banff Centre for the Arts Indigenous Dance Program, where he worked as a dancer, teacher, and choreographer. He graduated from the Indigenous Residency Program at the National Theatre School of Canada, where he is refined his artistic practice as an actor and director.

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Description of the project

Co-founders of the collective Les Petites Géantes, Marie-Ève Bérubé* and Andréanne Daigle are two actresses who are passionate about creation for young audiences.

Versatile and sensitive, their researches focuses on the subtle marvels that embellish everyday life.

The mandate of Les Petites Géantes is to create theater for young people and those around them. The child’s view of the world, when everything is a discovery, welcoming the new and unknown, is the subject of our fascination and the driving force behind our creative process.
Combining different expressive forms, the shows aim to stimulate all the senses. They have at heart the democratization of the living arts, especially for young children. Beauty and gentleness are for them a way to reach out to young and old alike, making them want to continue their discovery of the theatrical universe.

* Please note that Marie-Ève Bérubé (interpretation 2016) is also co-founder of our collective Les Petites Géantes and of the show Émeraude et le monarque.

EMERALD AND THE MONARCH

Emerald and the Monarch, a creation of the collective Les Petites Géantes, is a puppet show with two performers, lasting 25 minutes, dreamed up for very young children (3-5 years). This work seeks to raise awareness among toddlers about the preservation of biodiversity.

With a set full of surprises, Émeraude et le Monarque tells the story of a young girl who meets a Monarch butterfly that she finds beautiful. “I’ve never seen one like that!” she thinks to herself. After putting it in a jar to keep it close to her, Emerald realizes that her butterfly is fading fast. What to do?
The little girl becomes aware of the fragility of the nature that surrounds her. She will look for a way to keep her new friend close to her without hurting him. Different types of puppets and accessories will be used to build a playful universe where our little heroine will face surprising adventures.

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Andréanne Daigle biography

Home Dépôt

Dive into the universe of the CHSLD, a place of institutionalized living and dying, HOME DÉPÔT questions the notion of home (where we live/what inhabits us). Anne Sophie Rouleau and Marie-Eve Fortier invite poets and playwrights to meet people on the edge of the world, in their home room, and to write freely from this encounter and from who they are, from what inhabits them.

Marie-Eve Fortier biography

Sin palabras

Sin Palabras is a workshop of artistic expression, including mask making and corporal expression. It was offered to a group of refugees from Casa Tochán, Casa Refugiados and other shelters in Mexico City. It aimed to provide the beneficiaries with tools for liberation and expression, an internal work to cope with uprootedness and its psychological ramifications. To accomplish this way of liberation they used the masks as a way of rituals, games, expression combining it with movement and liberation of the body. after we will have an exposition of their work was exposed in the exibithion during the World Refuggee day working with the UN Mexico.

Lorena Trigos biography

En territore humain

En territore humain is a means of introducing a group of Sorel’s senior high school teenagers who are struggling with marginalization to expression trough the living arts. In order to achieve these goals, EN TERRITOIRE HUMAIN will unfold in two parrallel components : the first one dealing with appreciation and mediation and the second one with creation and transmission

J.J Houle biography