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Décembre 3, 2020Décembre 3, 2020

Apply Now: Interdisciplinary Dramaturgy Lab

Illustration for the Interdisciplinary Dramaturgy Lab workshop 2021

Note:
en raison de la pandémie COVID-19, cet atelier se déroulera en téléprésence.
Contactez harris@playwrights.ca pour toutes questions sur l'atelier.

PWM and Studio 303 invite dramaturgs, theatre artists, dancers, circus artists and interdisciplinary artists to the third edition of the Interdisciplinary Dramaturgy Lab. Led by Kathy Casey (dance), Dana Dugan (circus) and Fatma Sarah Elkashef (theatre), the lab is a space for artists to exchange dramaturgical tools, share challenges and experiences, and explore how we are working in these exceptional times.

Calendrier :

(Atelier virtuel de 5 jours) 
9:30 AM to 12:30 PM EST every day
Monday, January 11 to Friday, January 15, 2021.

Lieu :

L'atelier se déroulera à distance via un logiciel de visioconférence.

Fee:

$60
(Please contact us if this fee would be a barrier to your participation)

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Please send us a bio and/or artistic CV as well as a brief (1-2 paragraph) statement explaining why this lab interests you, how it is relevant to your artistic practice, and what your expectations are for this lab.
Send your application and any questions to: harris@playwrights.ca using the subject line: Interdisciplinary Dramaturgy Lab
Apply before 11:59 PM on December 18, 2020 to ensure that your application will be considered.

À propos des animateurs de l'atelier

Born in North Carolina, Kathy Casey began her dance career in 1979 with the Chicago Moving Company. Settled in New York in 1980, she danced for many choreographers before joining the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in 1984. In 1989, she became a member of Susan Marshall & Company, with whom she had collaborated since 1981. From 1985-1989, she also assisted Mr. Lubovitch and Ms. Marshall in creation. Kathy Casey has danced in Europe, Asia, and North America and continues to give numerous workshops across Canada and the United States. Welcomed by Montréal Danse in 1991, she was appointed Artistic Director of the company in March 1996. A major portion of her work now is collaborating with choreographers on the dramaturgy of the works created for the company. In addition to her work with Montréal Danse, she also works as an artistic advisor with independent choreographers in the city.

Dana Dugan is an American circus artist, performer, pedagogue, and scholar based in Montreal. She was a founding member, programmer, project manager, and producer of the Chicago Contemporary Circus Festival and CirqueOFF. Dana recently completed her Master’s Degree at Concordia University under fellowship researching the circus body and its embodied knowledge. She is currently continuing her research explorations and performance of the circus body and speculative performance narratives as a PhD student at Concordia University. Dana’s work reflects an agenda that advocates for socially conscious performances and alternative, queer, feminist, political narratives that cultivate agency on the circus stage.

Born in the UK, Fatma Sarah Elkashef is a dramaturg based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) working in new play development and interdisciplinary creation. Since 2013 she has been a dramaturg at Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal (PWM) where she has collaborated on numerous plays and performances. Sarah began the Interdisciplinary Writers’ Lab at PWM to explore non-text centric approaches to theatre/performance creation and is deeply inspired by the brilliant theatre, dance, circus, performance and visual artists who have been a part of it thus far. At the National Theatre School of Canada she has worked across programs as a dramaturg, creator, and teacher since 2012. Sarah’s preoccupations are rooted in her hybrid identity and practise, and she is excited by the possible futures for collaboration and process sharing across performance disciplines.

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janvier 21, 2020janvier 23, 2020

POSTULER MAINTENANT : Re:Shaping Borders avec Naïma Kristel Phillips

A devised creation workshop

Dates: February 29th & March 1st, 2020 (2-day workshops)
Heure : 10 AM – 5 PM Both days
Lieu : PWM (7250 Clark, Suite 103)
Fee: $42 (please contact us if this fee would be an obstacle to your participation)

What borders do you encounter, challenge, confront, travel through or around in your artistic practice? Are these concrete, imagined, welcome or imposed?

These questions will serve as the basis for the latest workshop in our Exploring Practice Series. Led by Naïma Kristel Phillips, Re:Shaping Borders invites participants to take part in a devised creation process built around the theme of borders.

Devised theatre, also known as collective creation, is a theatre-making practice in which an ensemble of performers (often actors or dancers) ”write” a piece collaboratively. This workshop is designed to give artists a hands-on introduction to this way of working. The group will be made up of roughly 8 artists with a variety of artistic backgrounds and experiences.

Application Instructions: To apply, please send us your artistic CV/bio and a brief (1-2 paragraph) statement explaining why this workshop interests you, how it is relevant to your artistic practice and what your expectations are for this workshop.

Please send your application and any questions to: harris@playwrights.ca using the subject line: Exploring Practice with Naima Kristel Phillips

Application deadline: February 5, 2020 at 11:59 PM

À propos de l’animateur de l’atelier:

Naïma Kristel Phillips is a playwright, librettist, and stage director committed to finding innovative ways to portray human existence. Her interdisciplinary works have been presented across Canada, France, and the United States. As a performer, Naïma practised extended vocal techniques and choreographic theatre at the Roy Hart International Centre and Pantheatre with co-founders and directors Enrique Pardo, Linda Wise, and Elizabeth Mayer. Her interdisciplinary approach is also inspired by studies with playwright Charles L. Mee and director Anne Bogart as well as mentorship from choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

Naïma is currently writing the libretto for an opera with composer Margareta Jeric. She is also directing and co-creating High Z, an immersive performance exploring the 2011 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the accelerating universe. As a concept writer, she collaborated with scenographer Julie Vallée-Léger and GSM Project on the critically-acclaimed “Life of Sally Hemings” exhibit at Monticello.

Her playwriting credits include Le bon gars d’à côté (Festival Jamais Lu) Suite d’une ville morte (Tapestry Opera and Canadian Opera Company) Birthday Triage (Horace Mann Theater), My Artichoke Heart (Dream Up Festival), and Night Spell (Nextfest). A recipient of the Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes, the Gloria Mitchell-Aleong Award, and the Shubert Presidential Fellowship, Naïma was in the 2014-2016 Interdisciplinary Unit at Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University.

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Décembre 13, 2019janvier 24, 2020

Apply Now: Interdisciplinary Dramaturgy Lab

Dates: January 27th-31st, 2020 (5-days)
Heure : 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM Each day
Lieu : Studio 303, 372 Saint-Catherine St W, Montreal, Quebec H3B 1A2
Fee: $60 (please contact us if this fee would be an obstacle to your participation)

PWM and Studio 303 invite dramaturges, theatre artists, dancers, circus performers and interdisciplinary artists the second edition of the Interdisciplinary Dramaturgy Lab. Led by Kathy Casey (dance), Dana Dugan (circus) and Fatma Sarah Elkashef (theatre), the lab is a space for artists working across various disciplines to exchange their dramaturgical tools, challenges and experiences.

Application Instructions: To apply, please send us your artistic CV/bio and a brief (1-2 paragraph) statement explaining why this training interests you, how it is relevant to your artistic practice and what your expectations are for this lab.

Please send your application and any questions to: harris@playwrights.ca using the subject line: Interdisciplinary Dramaturgy Lab
Application deadline: January 5, 2020

About the Workshop Leaders:

Fatma Sarah Elkashef is a theatre artist, primarily a dramaturg, working in new play development and interdisciplinary creation. At Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal she leads the Interdisciplinary Writer’s Lab in addition to various other projects. At the National Theatre School of Canada she often works across programs as a dramaturg, creator, and teacher and in 2016 received their Bernard Amyot Award for Teaching. Sarah recently co-created a circus show for families Eat Sweet Feet, and continues to work on High Z, an immersive performance installation for planetariums based on the 2011 Nobel prize winning discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe. Prior to settling in Canada she was the Senior Reader at Soho Theatre in London, U.K. Sarah has also been an associate producer, company manager, literary associate and more in New York City. She is a graduate of Warwick University in English Literature and Theatre (U.K.), has an M.A. in Theatre from Hunter College (CUNY, NYC), and a Graduate Diploma in Communications from Concordia University (Montreal, Canada).

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juin 12, 2019novembre 19, 2019

Apply Now: Theatre Translation Workshop with Frank Heibert

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Dates: September 23, 24 & 25 (3-day workshop)
Heure : 9:30 AM – 5 PM (Including a lunch break)
Lieu : PWM, 7250 Clark #103, Montréal, QC.
Fee: $90

Presented in collaboration with Le Centre des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD), this 3-day workshop is led by prolific German theatre translator Frank Heibert. The workshop, which will include group discussions, theoretical lectures and translation exercises built around specific case studies, is aimed at emerging to mid-career theatre translators.

Guiding questions will include:

How do you find your characters’ voices?
What are similarities and differences between translation and adaptation?
In cases where a translation is commissioned for a specific production, should the translator’s vision take priority over the director’s vision?

The practice of working off of a word-for-word translation in collaboration with a translator fluent in the source language will also be discussed.

Participants are encouraged to bring in a translation project in progress. However, translators not currently working on a project are also encouraged to apply. The target language of these projects can be French or English, and the source language should ideally be one of the following languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese. Participants’ projects will be discussed in detail and will help to determine the topics of the workshop.

The workshop will be led in English and French, depending on the needs and fluency of the participants.

Application guidelines:

Envoyez votre inscription à harris@playwrights.ca with the subject line Exploring Practice with Frank Heibert.
Please attach the following three documents:
- The translation project that you plan on discussing during the workshop: please attach roughly 10 pages of both your translation and the original script as well as a brief synopsis of the piece. (Excerpts of the translation are not mandatory, but applications containing excerpts will be prioritized.)
- A letter of intention (1 page maximum).
- An up-to-date CV.
Application deadline: 11 AM on June 28, 2019

About the Instructor:

Frank Heibert lives in Berlin and has studied literature in Germany, Italy, and France. Since 1983, he has worked as a translator of literature from English, French, Italian and Portuguese into German. From 1990-1995, he was the co-publisher of his own small publishing house Zebra Literaturverlag. He has also worked as an editor, a speaker, a critic and a professor at Free University of Berlin. He is a member of PEN International, the worldwide writers’ association and is the winner of numerous literary awards for writing and translation.

He has translated over 95 novels and story collections by, among many others, Don DeLillo, Richard Ford, William Faulkner, Boris Vian, Alfred Jarry, Marie Darrieussecq, Yasmina Reza, and Raymond Queneau. He has also translated roughly 110 plays, by playwrights such as Tony Kushner, Neil LaBute, Nicky Silver, George F. Walker, Jonathan Garfinkel, Terrence McNally, Martin Crimp, Yasmina Reza, Italo Svevo, and Lina Wertmüller as well as Quebec playwrights Michel Marc Bouchard, Suzanne Lebeau, and Olivier Kemeid.

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Décembre 12, 2018octobre 29, 2019

Seeking Participants: Interdisciplinary Dramaturgy Lab

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A five-day exploration of the art of dramaturgy across three disciplines

Dates: February 4-8, 2019 (Mon.-Fri.)
Times: 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Lieu : Studio 303 (372 Ste-Catherine West, Montreal, QC)
Participation fee: $80

This lab is open to creators, writers, choreographers, dramaturgs and interdisciplinary performance artists.

This 5-day laboratory is a gathering of dramaturgs from various disciplines to exchange best practices and fundamental aspects of live art. Led by Kathy Casey (dance), Dana Dugan (circus) and Sarah Elkashef (theatre), the lab is a space to exchange dramaturgical tools and challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is an opportunity to acknowledge dramaturgy as an art form.

Application guideline: To apply for this training, please submit a bio, your CV, and a short (1-2 paragraph) statement explaining why this training interests you, how it is relevant to your artistic practice and what your expectations are for this lab.

Please send applications to emma@playwrights.ca et harris@playwrights.ca
Subject line: Interdisciplinary Dramaturgy Lab
Application deadline: January 21, 2019

Biographies:

Dana Dugan is an American circus artist, performer, pedagogue, and scholar based in Montreal. She was a founding member, programmer, project manager, and producer of the Chicago Contemporary Circus Festival and CirqueOFF. Dana recently completed her Master’s Degree at Concordia University under fellowship researching the circus body and its embodied knowledge. She will continue her research explorations and performance of the circus body and speculative performance narratives as a PhD student at Concordia, Fall 2018. Dana’s work reflects an agenda that advocates for socially conscious performances and alternative, queer, feminist, political narratives that cultivate agency on the circus stage.

Sarah Elkashef is a theatre artist, primarily a dramaturg, working in new play development and interdisciplinary creation. At Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal she leads the Interdisciplinary Writer’s Lab in addition to various other projects. At the National Theatre School of Canada she often works across programs as a dramaturg, creator, and teacher and in 2016 received their Bernard Amyot Award for Teaching. Sarah recently co-created a circus show for families Eat Sweet Feet, and continues to work on High Z, an immersive performance installation for planetariums based on the 2011 Nobel prize winning discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe. Prior to settling in Canada she was the Senior Reader at Soho Theatre in London, U.K. Sarah has also been an associate producer, company manager, literary associate and more in New York City. She is a graduate of Warwick University in English Literature and Theatre (U.K.), has an M.A. in Theatre from Hunter College (CUNY, NYC), and a Graduate Diploma in Communications from Concordia University (Montreal, Canada).

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