CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

Concordia in Prague 2019: The Exhibition

Exploring Montreal’s landscape through its stories. Stories of its past, present and future. Stories  of its patterns, shapes and colors. And stories of its people that shape the city with what they bring to it. Their ideas, their experience and the way they reclaim the space for themselves and give it an identity. As an example, Amélie Charbonneau, Charles Gao, Abigail Stushnoff, Anna Toneguzzi and Aude Vallerand decided to cast light on the mysterious story of Juliette Trolio, proprietor of Rix Rax: a hidden gem full of vintage curiosities and fashion novelties.

Other participating students are Tiffanie Boffa, Kun Day, Anna Doumet, Mélodie Goulet, Oliver Herman, Indigo Danielson, Julie Fournier, Nasrine Khairi-Arancibia, Marcio Vinicius Paulino Silveira, Youchen Zhang

Concordia à Prague 2019: L’Exposition

Explorer le paysage montréalais à travers ses histoires, son passé, présent et futur. Histoires de ses motifs, formes et couleurs. Histoires de ses habitants qui façonnent la ville avec ce qu’ils apportent. Leurs idées, leur expérience et la façon dont ils récupèrent l’espace pour eux-mêmes et lui donnent une identité. Par exemple, Amélie Charbonneau, Charles Gao, Abigail Stushnoff, Anna Toneguzzi and Aude Vallerand ont eu envie de mettre en lumière la mystérieuse histoire de Juliette Trolio, propriétaire de Rix Rax : un cabinet de curiosité géant où sont cachées les plus belles garnitures de mode vintage.

Les autres étudiants.es participant à l’exposition sont Tiffanie Boffa, Kun Day, Anna Doumet, Mélodie Goulet, Oliver Herman, Indigo Danielson, Julie Fournier, Nasrine Khairi-Arancibia, Marcio Vinicius Paulino Silveira, Youchen Zhang

Concordia in Prague 2019: The Performance-Installation

Mimesis

By Fady Joudah

My daughter wouldn’t hurt a spider

That had nested

Between her bicycle handles

For two weeks

She waited

Until it left of its own accord

If you tear down the web I said

It will simply know

This isn’t a place to call home

And you’d get to go biking

She said that’s how others

Become refugees isn’t it?

Pendant une journée à la Quadriennale de Prague, les étudiants de Concordia à Prague créeront une installation participative basée sur le poème de Fady Joudah, Mimesis.

The Department of Theatre is uniquely embedded within Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts, which has a long history as one of the premiere sites in Canada for the study and creation of the arts and arts-based scholarship, an is situated within the rich fabric of a research university.

We offer a BFA with a choice of three Specializations: Acting for the Theatre, Design for the Theatre and Canadas’s first undergraduate degree in Performance Creation. We also offer a Minor in Theatre. Our nationally and internationally recognized faculty members frequently collaborate with colleagues across the university and beyond in supervising student undertaking research and studies within Concordia’s Individualized MA/PHD and the Interdisciplinary Humanities PHD.

Each of our BFA programs is designed to train you as a practitioner, and to prepare you for entry into professional work or for graduate studies.

Acting for the Theatre will train you to be a highly capable, adaptable performer with skills applicable to many forms and genres of contemporary theatre and live performance. Design for the Theatre invites you to become actively involved in the complex process of conceiving, communicating, and realizing visual material, and spatial framewords for theatrical and other performing arts productions. The newly created BFA Specialization in Performance Creation supports emerging artists who seek interdisciplinary knowledge and performance training. In this program you will be introduced to theatre history, the crafts of directing, playwriting, dramaturgy, and a series of hybrid seminar-studio courses on practices such as oral history and performance, Indigenous storytelling, and studies in gender and sexuality in performance, as well as to methods for creating socially-engaged, collective, and interdisciplinary performance projects.

Our Department distinguishes itself by providing a healthy balance of rigour and flexibility, allowing students opportunities to study in areas complementary to their primary focus. Beyond our array of studio and seminar classes, we offer a variety of enrichment activities including international theatre-study exchanges to sites in Europe, Asia and North America, and supervised internships with prominent organizations in the local and national landscape.

Le Département de Théâtre fait partie intégrante de la Faculté des Beaux-Arts de Concordia, qui figure depuis longtemps au nombre des sites de premier plan au Canada pour l’étude et la création en arts et fait partie du riche tissu d’une université axée sur la recherche.

Nous offrons un Baccalauréat avec un choix de trois spécialisations : Jeu Théâtral, Design pour le Théâtre et le premier diplôme de premier cycle en Création de Performance. Nous offrons également une Mineure en Théâtre. Nos professeurs de renommée nationale et internationale collaborent fréquemment avec des collègues de l’université et au-delà pour superviser des étudiants effectuant des recherches et des études dans le cadre du programme individualisé de maîtrise / doctorat et du doctorat interdisciplinaire en sciences humaines de Concordia.

Chacun de nos programmes est conçu pour vous former en tant que praticien et vous préparer à l’entrée dans un travail professionnel ou à des études supérieures.

Jeu Théâtral vous entraînera à devenir un interprète hautement capable et adaptable, doté de compétences applicables à de nombreuses formes et genres du théâtre contemporain et du spectacle vivant. Design pour le Théâtre vous invite à participer activement au processus complexe de conception, de communication et de réalisation de matériel visuel et de mots-clés spatiaux pour les productions théâtrales et autres arts de la scène. La nouvelle spécialisation en Création de Performance permet aux artistes émergents d’entreprendre la recherche de connaissances interdisciplinaires et d’intégrer les différentes étapes de la création. Dans ce programme, vous serez initié à l’histoire du théâtre, à l’art de la mise en scène, à la dramaturgie, à la dramaturgie et à une série de cours hybrides de type studio-séminaire sur des pratiques telles que l’histoire et la performance orales, la narration autochtone, et des études sur le genre et la sexualité, ainsi que des méthodes pour créer des projets de performance engagés socialement, collectivement et interdisciplinaires.

Notre département se distingue par un équilibre sain entre rigueur et flexibilité, offrant aux étudiants la possibilité d’étudier dans des domaines complémentaires à leurs objectifs principaux. Au-delà de notre gamme de cours en studio et en séminaire, nous proposons diverses activités d’enrichissement, notamment des échanges internationaux d’études de théâtre sur des sites en Europe, en Asie et en Amérique du Nord, ainsi que des stages supervisés avec des organisations de premier plan dans le paysage local et national.

DEVISED CREATION

APATHY A devised creation. Concordia University – Winter 2019

“We began building templates of the play we wanted to work on. We tried improvisation, argued, watched playback from world news such as the Christine Ford testimony, argued, read book excerpts and articles and staged inspired by compositions from some of them, and argued, saw plays together, argued, looked at cartoons, newspapers, shared poetry… and…. Started to focus. We did real interviews with the public and our families to find out their thoughts on Apathy. We spent weeks in our writer room talking about the direction of the play. We found characters. We found words. We found more questions than answers.” J. Carmichael

CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION TEAM

Author: by the Company

Director, Conceiver and Co-Dramaturg: Jessica Carmichael

Design Supervisor: Cathia Pagotto

Set, Lights and Video Designer: Merlin Lev Platt

Costume Designer: Jonathan Stern

Sound Designer: Alana Marta DeVito

Music Director: Sara Jarvie-Clark

Props Designer: Michael Friend

Dramaturgs: Danielle Eyer and Camille Fecteau

Stage Manager: Alessandra Tom

Assistant Director: Jennifer Townsend

Assistant Stage Manager: Camille Lapointe, Shaylah Mahoney

CAST (In order of appearance)

Reporter/Nora– Cheyenne Schaub

Sylvia– Emelia Geryk

Kid A– Sara Jarvie- Clark

Niko– Samson Mills

Petra– Mariia Bashmakova

Sam– Scarlet Fountain

Cleo– Lila Ciesielski

Ella– Madison Phyper

Mae– Tamara Fattouh

Editor/David– Quinlan Green

CLASSICAL

The Learned Ladies by Molière, Concordia University – Winter 2019

“When I was faced with the amazing offer to direct Molière at Concordia, I suddenly stumbled across an aspect that I hadn’t addressed or focused on earlier. Something literally exploded in my face: the pervasive misogyny of his time reflected throughout his life’s work. As a proud feminist, I had to chat with my old friend Molière inside my head. Every play had some elements that made me clench my teeth, yet his brilliance as a writer painting human nature, pulled me in vigorously. I decided to face the challenge with glee and I chose The Learned Ladies because it made fun of all, as well as carrying a very important topic dear to my heart.” N. Claude

PRODUCTION TEAM

Author: Molière

Director: Nathalie Claude

Assistant Director: Annalise Peterson-Perry

Stage Manager: Morgandy McKinnell

Assistant Stage Manager: Brianna Bagshaw-Stocks, Isabel Gelfand

Movement specialist: Denise Boulanger

The quotes in the play are from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, G. D. Anderson, Simone de Beauvoir, Angela Davis, June Jordan, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bell Hooks, Valerie Solanas, Mary Woolstonecraft.

CHARACTERS & CAST

Chrysale, a wealthy bourgeois…………………Dominique Thornhill

Philaminte, Chrysale’s wife………………………………Oprah Lemorin

Armande, their elder daughter…………………………Autumn Taylor

Henriette, their younger daughter……………………..Caelan Mestel

Ariste, Chrysale’s brother……………………..Camille Lemay-Paquin

Bélise, Chrysale’s sister…………………………………………..Avery Reid

Clitandre, Henriette’s suitor…………………………..Noah Labranche

Trissotin, a wit……………………………………………….Julie d’Entremont

Vadius, a scholar………………………………………………Siobhán Galpin

Martine, the kitchen-maid……………………………………Chris Fequet

Lépine, the household servant………………………………John O’Neil

The Notary, a notary…………………………………………Siobhán Galpin

Special thanks to Julie McInnes for being our feminist, cyborg voice-over.

DESIGN TEAM

Design Supervisor: Cathia Pagotto

Set & Properties Designer: Marianne Lavoie

Costume Design: Sarah Mauracher

Lighting Design: Ling Zhi Diana Chiu

Sound Design: Scott W. Mallory

Assistant Set & Properties Design: Anna Toneguzzi

Assistant Costume Design: Erika Salter

Assistant Lighting Design: Tiffanie Boffa

ADAPTATION

The Freddy Stories an adaptation from the Illustrated Novel by Lynda Barry, Concordia University – Fall 2017

“The undertaking of this adaptation has been a gorgeous display of great courage, goodwill, and collective collaboration. We started as readers and novice puppeteers, and each brought their tool bag of creativity capacities to the rehearsal room. We have found out who likes to draw, dance, sing, paint, sew, edit, make lists, and of course, make theatre. In only six weeks, we made it through the story, we fell in love with the characters, and before you we will bring them to life.” C. Minaker

PRODUCTION TEAM

Author: Lynda Barry

Director: Clea Minaker

Assistant Director: Caite Clarke

Stage Manager: Caitlin Stever

CAST

Lucas Amato

Autumn Ash-Smith

Brianna Bashaw-Stocks

Emma Corber

Naomi Cormier

Tierney Cornford

Kennedy Huffman-Baillargeon

Caroline Mawhinney

Catherine Preston

Alexandra Przybyla

DESIGN TEAM

Design Supervisor: Cathia Pagotto

Designer: Laury Méthot

Assistant Designer: Katelyn Hirst

DEVISED CREATION / SITE SPECIFIC

Rinse. Wash. Repeat.  A collective creation produced following an Exchange Program between the Institut für Theater und Medienwissenschaft of Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen (Germany) and the Concordia University’s Department of Theatre

Concordia University – Fall 2017

“Looking back at the past that brought us here, we recognize cycles. How do we acknowledge and challenge these recurring patterns of humanity to navigate the present, while maintaining an awareness of our trace on the future? In a world with a past filled with violence and lack of communication, a new history can only begin when the old has been interrogated. As products of the old world, we attempt to shake it, and force ourselves to find new means of communication beyond the limiting language and structures we have depended upon.” The company

CAST and Co-Creators

Adrian Manicom

Cleopatra Boudreau

Diddi Meyer

Kimia Pourazar

Manolis Antoniou

Olivia Siino

Rebecca Bauer

Sophie (Sunny) Ambre

Thomas Kraft

Laura Kersten

Stage Manager: Susan Atafuah-Callender

DESIGN TEAM

Faculty Supervisors: Tessa Theisen (Erlangen) Raymond Marius Boucher (Montreal)

Design Supervisor: Cathia Pagotto

Set & Properties Design: Kerryn Oertle

Costume Design: Sierra Mon

Lighting Design: Kerryn Oertle, Sierra Mon

Assistant Lighting Designer: Marianne LavoieSound Design: Diddi Meyer, Rebecca Bauer