MixOFF

Wednesday May 27th, 8pm
Galerie de l'UQAM
Multidisciplinary performance
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Emmanuel Schwartz & Salvatore Calcagno | Adam Kinner & Vera Tussing |
Sarah Berthiaume & Florence Minder | Olivia Boudreau & Sabine Molenaar

120 min

The MixOFF allow eight young artists — four from Wallonia-Brussels and four from Quebec — to work in pairs to create a scenic object at the borders of different cultural and artistic practices. It’s a meeting between the creative territories of Belgium and Quebec, a series of arranged marriages to give birth to new transatlantic dialogues. Come discover the result of those four new and rather unlikely encounters. The pairs will present a second version of this research as part of Ailleurs en Folie in Mons, Belgium, in September.

BIOGRAPHIES
Emmanuel Schwartz 
Actor, musician, author and director, Emmanuele Schwartz works simultaneously a series of radical artistIc approaches with artists such as the chorographer Dave St-Pierre, directors Denis Villeneuve and Xavier Dolan, as well as the stage director Marc Beaupré. Atypical creator, Shwartz wants to harness the antique force of the myth to show what is really going on in the conflicts that weaves everyday life.

Salvatore Calcagno
Salvatore Calcagno started his carreer in 2011, with Gnocchi, featuring a culinary incest between a young man and his mother. In 2012, he created La Vecchia Vacca, who received public and critcal acclaim, twice nomitated at the Prix de la Critique and presented in Marseille, Bruxelles and Paris (Vanves). In 2014, he worked on the creation of a musical tragedy as part of the Festival XS at the Théâtre National de Bruxelles and assisted Armel Roussel to direct two canadian authors, Gilles Poulin-Denis and Sarah Berthiaume.

Adam Kinner
Adam Kinner is a Montreal-based artist that works with dance, music and performance. Musician by formation, Kinner started to conceptualize choreographies in order to revisit the setting of the musical performance. Stuck between the logic of both dance and music, he now works seamlessly between the two to examinate their contigent claims on the truth.

Vera Tussing
Graduate from the London Comtemporary Dance School, Vera Tussing worked as a choreographer and dancer througout the United Kindgom, Belgium and Europe. Her work has been presented and co-produced by institutions such as the ROH2 for First at the Royal Opera Hosue, The Place as part of The Place Prize in London, as well as STUCK art Centre in Louvain, and the Monty Theatre in Anvers.

Sarah Berthiaume 
Actor by formation, Sarah Berthiaume is also author and playright. She wrote Le Déluge après, Disparitions and Villes Mortes, published by Éditions de Ta Mère. In 2013, her work Yukonstyle was simultaneously showed at the Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui in Montreal and at the Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris, before being produce in Bruxelles, Inssbruck, Heidelberg and Toronto. Sarah also works on the script for the cinematographic adaptation of Yukonstyle, as well as for the Subito Texto program on Télé-Québec. As an actor, she was seen in Martine à la plage, a solo that her accomplice Simon Boulerice wrote for her.

Florence Minder 
Florence Minder is an swiss actor and author trained at INSAS in Bruxells. Her playrights serve to lay the groudwork on a possible interaction with the public. The resultings works (Good Mourning ! VOSTbil, Calendrier de l’Avent, Saison 1) are in dialogue with the specific context into which they take place (theater, musuem, hotel, etc.). Playing in French, German and English, the artist as work with Fabrin Prioville, Karen Köhler, Pascal Merighi, Sofie Kokaj and Selma Alaoui.

Sabine Molenaar
Sabine Molenaar born in the Netherlands, moved to Amsterdam in 2003 to study Modern Theatre Dance for 4 years at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. In 2006 she worked with Ann van den Broek for the performance E19 the way to San José, and from 2006 until 2008 she was co-founder of the dutch company ‘Instant Collective’. In 2008 she came to Brussels and worked for over 2 years with company ‘Peeping Tom’, touring internationally with the performance 32 rue Vandenbranden. In 2012 she created her first solo, That`s it, under the umbrella of her new company Sandman. That’s it won the first price in ACT festival in Bilbao and the price for ‘Strongest female talent’ at Theater Aan Zee’ in Oostende, Belgium and is touring internationally.

Olivia Boudreau
Olivia Boudreau is an artist whose practice combines video and performance in works that explore perception, temporality and the visible through the long take and more recently narrative structure and editing. Her video installation L’Étuve—a large scale study of five women in a steam room—was a focal point of the last Québec Triennale at the Musée d’art contemporain in 2011. She was the recipient of the Prix Pierre-Ayot de la Ville de Montréal in 2011. In 2012 and 2014 she was part of the Quebec selection for the prestigious Sobey award.