LEARNING & GATHERING SERIES 2024-25
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LEARNING & GATHERING SERIES 2024-25 *
UPCOMING GUEST ARTISTS
Robin Poitras C.M. is one of Saskatchewan’s most prolific dance and performance creators. Creating dance, performance and installation works, she has been actively engaged in contemporary dance practice since the early 80s. For many years Robin has traversed the formal worlds of dance and performance art. She co-founded New Dance Horizons in 1986, with Dianne Fraser where she continues to act as Artistic Director. With an interest in research into diverse fields of artistic and somatic practice she has developed a unique interdisciplinary approach. Robin’s works have been presented across Canada, in Spain, France, Germany, Mongolia and Mexico. She is a recipient of the 2022 Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal, 2021 recipient of the Order of Canada, 2016 Lieutenant Governor’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2006 Mayor’s Awards for Business & The Arts’ Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2004 Women of Distinction Award for the Arts.
WORKSHOP: OBJECT RELATIONS
This workshop, offered in partnership with New Dance Horizons, invites participants to join master contemporary dance artist Robin Poitras in an exploration of the elemental forms of circle, triangle, square and the spiralling forces. This learning experience interweaves play and repertoire. Perfect for artists with an interest in dance / theatre / music / visual arts.
Eric Rose is an award-winning Canadian director, creator, deviser and educator. In 2012, he received the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Artist Award for his body of work as a theatrical innovator, spanning large-scale contemporary and classical theatre, site-specific and immersive performance, performance creation, devising theatre, new play development, physical theatre and dance. His work is characterized by a striking audio-visual aesthetic that embraces the impossible; constantly reframing and rediscovering what theatre is and is capable of.
Artistic Director of Calgary’s renowned Ghost River Theatre, his recent credits include: director/co-playwright of GIANT; concept/direction/co-creation of Intuition Project; co-adaptor, sound designer and director Tomorrow’s Child, directing/co-writing The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst (Betty Mitchell Awards for Outstanding Production, Direction, New Play and shortlisted for the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Prize in Playwriting).
Eric is honoured to have been the Playwright in Residence at Alberta Theatre Projects, the recipient of 6 Betty Mitchell Awards, Canstage Award for Direction, and the CITT Award for Technical Achievement.
As an educator, Eric has taught for: Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, University of Toronto, Theatre Calgary, Globe Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, One Trunk Theatre, Pat the Dog Theatre Creation, Undercurrents Festival, Mount Royal University, Sheridan College, University of Calgary, ArtsTrek, Theatre Alberta, PEI Conservatory, Charlottetown Festival, Watermark Theatre, and many others.
Up-coming, Eric’s production ONE will be touring to The Factory Theatre as part of their 50th Anniversary Season as well as directing/writing his solo play STRUCK about his near death experience being struck by lightning that will premiere at Pat the Dog Theatre Creation’s 2020 PlaySmelter Festival.
PAST GUEST ARTISTS
Denise Clarke is a theatre artist who works as a choreographer, actor, director, playwright and teacher. She is the Associate Artist and a permanent member of the One Yellow Rabbit Theatre Ensemble. She is also the director of the OYR BeautifulYoungArtist program.
She published The Big Secret Book in 2019.
https://www.amazon.ca/Big-Secret-Book-Creating-Performance/dp/1988824117
Clarke has written/directed several pieces including The Erotic Irony of Old Glory, Touch, Breeder, So Low, Permission, Featherland, Sign Language, A Fabulous Disaster, Smash, Cut, Freeze, Wag, Room 333 and her latest Salon for the 2024 OYR High Performance Rodeo.
Clarke was awarded the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Award in 2007 and the City of Calgary Mayor’s Distinguished Artist Award in 2011. She received an Honourary Doctorate from the University of Calgary in May 2013 and was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in December 2013.
DENISE CLARKE (ONE YELLOW RABBIT) WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP: APPLYING THEATRE CRAFT TO DANCE MAKING and VICE VERSA
Clarke has developed a pedagogy researched and determined during the twenty years she directed The One Yellow Rabbit Summer Lab braiding the disciplines of movement and theatre freely to explore personal aesthetic and execution for the stage.
2021-22
