RÉSIDENCES ARTISTIQUES 2018-2022

LES VEUVES PARALLÈLES (PARALLEL WIDOWS)

Claudine Rivest
With the collaboration of Sophie Deslauriers and Isaac Beaudet Lefebvre
November 16 to 29, 2020 / February 15 to 21, 2021

Claudine and her project Les Veuves Parallèles are the first guinea pigs in our creative laboratory! This large living room has recently been emptied of all the city's museum storage, and we've discovered an inspiring, intimate universe conducive to new ideas. Our new creation room is now equipped with a fabulous mobile workshop, a play area, and all the serenity needed for a creative "bubble"!

WEB MICRO-SERIES PROJECT

Colin St-Cyr Duhamel and Sandra Turgeon
December 7 to 11, 2020

We're very proud to welcome our second guinea pigs to the creative laboratory! This time in the form of a film studio.

The very talented Colin St-Cyr Duhamel benefited from one of the creative connection grants awarded by the CAQ at the heart of the pandemic to create a web micro-series project using author Lisa Cron's research as a starting point. Cron draws on neurological research to establish 12 fundamental principles of narrative construction. The result will be five playful, minimalist episodes of less than two minutes in black-light puppetry. A sort of distilled essence of engaging and intriguing stories.

JACQUES & ZÉBRELLE :
TOUT N'EST PAS RELATIF

Extravaganz’arts
With Cloé Lapointe, Stéphanie Belanger, Gabrielle Garant,
Geneviève Jacob and Fannie Lagrange
January 11 to 17, 2021 / May 10 to 16, 2021

Street theater enters the Fabrique! This time, it's the chapel, which will welcome stilt-walkers and puppeteers in the warmth of January...and which will go outside onto Rue des Ursulines in the spring!

At the crossroads of circus, street theater, visual art, magic and puppet manipulation, the Jacques & Zèbrelle project is resolutely atypical. The exquisite corpse-like protagonists come from an imaginary world where surrealist and romantic premises meet. Their heads, meticulously crafted from recycled materials, are veritable living works of art! Poetic, surrealist and scientific worlds come together in a participatory show that recounts the amorous encounter between Jacques and Zèbrelle.

Watch a preview of their visit to Trois-Rivières

FABRIQUE TA FABRIQUE

A Les Sages Fous production
Short animated films on the creative process of La Fabrique de théâtre insolite
With Claudine Rivest and Marie Filiatrault
january to march 2021

As part of the 12th Micro-Festival de marionnettes inachevées, Les Sages Fous are launching a project to let objects tell the fabulous story of an inspiring major cultural infrastructure project! The aim of this initiative is to shed light on the creative and eccentric process that led to the development of the Fabrique de théâtre insolite, a place dedicated to the creative process in puppetry and object theater.

All the little 3D models, 2D models, sketches, life-size models and miscellaneous objects lying around in the workshop, the presbytery and the church, which are used to reflect on this project, will become protagonists!

Two talented artists, Claudine Rivest and Marie Filiatrault, will take over the premises, bringing the inanimate to life and highlighting the project's key objects!

Ingenious, wacky and inventive ideas are on the agenda!

A first glimpse of Claudine Rivest's work is online

LA VIE SECRÈTE DES ARBRES (THE SECRET LIFE OF TREES)

Théâtre du Renard
With Antonia Leney-Granger and Claudine Rivest
March 15 to 21, 2021 and August 2021

Now it's our garden's turn to get a guinea pig in the works! Antonia will develop her show in our little laboratory in March, and take the garden by storm in summer.

In a world fascinated, even obsessed, by the idea of progress and growth, what would happen if we suddenly decided to pay attention to the slow, the tiny, the life that has lived for millions of years in almost unchanged forms, right before our eyes, so close to us that we can't even see it anymore? With this latest creation, Antonia aims to create an outdoor stroll aimed at young audiences, where each stop is an object-theater scene based on nature's secrets. It's a great way of conveying sometimes complex ideas in an accessible, playful and sensitive way!

GRACELAND

Les Tables Tournantes
With Marie-Pascale Bélanger, Joanie Fortin,
Mylène Guay and Iris Richert
March 29 to April 9, 2021

This proud graduate of UQUAM's DESS in contemporary puppet theater will be testing out our creative facilities this spring!

Graceland is the name of Elvis Presley's home, where he lived and died. The company decided to draw inspiration from this history and this place to create a nostalgic and absurd universe, dealing with contemporary mythologies and the prophetic figures that compose them.

POMELO

Les Ombres Folles
With Maude Gareau, Maxime Després, Pierre Alexandre Maranda, Rodolphe St‐Arneault and Olivier Monette‐Milmore
April 19 to 23, 2021

And here's a great proposal in the works, this time for very young audiences. This creation, which will be making its final stop on our premises, will be coming to a number of day-care centers in our neighborhood.

Pomelo is a tiny pink elephant, born under a dandelion in a garden. With humor and sensitivity, Pomelo discovers the world around him, before experiencing a shock: the arrival of autumn, then winter! This new Ombres Folles production promises to be an ode to nature and the cycle of the seasons, which allows us to see things die and then be reborn, and which takes us from one extreme to another. Thanks to shadows, live music and the diffusion of scents, Pomelo will be an enchanting, enveloping experience!

UN ROYAUME

Aluma
With Lucile Prosper and Mathieu Marcil
Dates to be confirmed in October 2021

Anyone who knows Lucile and Mathieu will testify to their perseverance and love of the business. We're proud that these "good souls" of puppetry are our last guinea pigs before the construction site!

Un Royaume is the staging of the trial against Bonsanté and other giants of the agrochemical industry for ecocide and violation of the right to food. It's an event in which the public will be the jury, voting on Bonsanté's guilt and possible sentence. Many citizens feel forgotten in certain ecological decisions. Here, the company will give spectators the opportunity to make their voices heard. To do so, they will have to vote, by secret ballot, on whether or not Bonsanté is guilty of ecocide and infringement of the right to food.

ISHMAEL FALKE, SANDRINA LINDGREN, NIKLAUS NYBOM (Finland/Israel)

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with the show TERRES INVISIBLES - Cie Livsmedlet
A trio of extraordinary artists who transcend the barriers of theater and dance to take us into foreign territory.
Performances in February 2020

JOCELYN SIOUI (Québec)

with the TRACES show
An accomplished puppeteer, Jocelyn continues in his own way the struggle of his great uncle Jules Sioui, reminding us of the forgotten history of aboriginal peoples.
Creative residencies in January 2020 and January 2019

KEVIN AUGUSTINE (ÉTATS-UNIS)

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with the BODY CONCERT show - Lone Wolf Tribe
Veteran sculptor and dancer Kevin Augustine uses his virtuoso talents to transport us to a world obeying other laws of physics.
Creative residency in July 2019 and September 2019

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE CANIVET (France)

In a dreamlike universe, Jean-Christophe approaches the art of puppetry with the wisdom of a Kendô master and the madness of William Shakespeare.
Residency in September 2019

HUBERT JEGAT - CréatureS Compagnie (France)

Author, director, actor, archaeologist, ufologist and great explorer of the collective imagination.
August 2019 residency

PATRICIA GOMIS - Compagnie Djarama (Sénégal)

Founder of Senegal's first clown theater company, Patricia knows how to make us laugh and touch us at the same time.
Residency in May 2019

MATHIEU RIEL & MARY KRI - Illuzao (Québec)

Two strange artists meet in an imaginary alleyway.
A touching and unsettling encounter.
Residency in November 2018

ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES2018 - 2022