"THE WORK I'VE DONE WITH STAGE LEFT
HAS BEEN THE MOST PROFOUND OF MY ENTIRE LIFE."
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Balancing Acts
Captain Courageous!
Lisa Bufano
Fleetwood Legay
Rachel da Silva Gorman
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Political Art
Our practice invites artists, communities and audiences to transgress colonial artistic norms and aesthetic expectations. Our programming spans a wide range – from production to presenting, trainings to commissions and a whole lot more in between. Production We share compelling stories of oppressed people’s individual, cultural and socio-political realities through daring forms of live performance: - Artist-Community Collaboration (multidisciplinary Epic Theatre) - site-specific Pop-Up Social Justice Encounters (Invisible Theatre spectacles) - original QueerCrip Physical Dance Theatre (interdisciplinary Performance Creation) - DIY Digital Film production (new media) - applied Theatre of the Oppressed (kicking ass) Presenting We've shown the work of over 1,000 professional Deaf/ Disabled/ Mad artists to new audiences in Calgary (and Edmonton!) at Balancing Acts – our annual Disability Arts Festival. Trainings We run an annual summer training intensive in Theatre of the Oppressed techniques; develop and deliver (anti)master classes in non-normative techniques; and provide arts equity literacy training and consultation. Commissions We've commissioned and premiered original performance works from dozens of Canadian artists, including Kazumi Tsuruoka, Lyle Victor Albert, Rachel da Silva Gorman, Alan Shain, Jan Derbyshire, Elizabeth Hudson, Heidi Janz, Ruth Bieber, Vi Ann Diep, James Doyle, Tegan McGarty, Danny Watt, The ACTORvists, and others. Over the past 15 years of operations, we've become a leading contributor to Canada's Deaf, Disability & Mad Arts domain, a global Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed and a hub of arts equity literacy, education and advocacy. |
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