ONGOING TRAINING Puppet in stop motion, Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski Manipulate or be manipulated, Alice Laloy Butoh dance, Jocelyne Montpetit Master Class, Frank Soehnle & Patrick Michaelis Noh Theatre, Masato Matsuura Moulding and casting technique, Claude Rodrigue Shadow theatre I & II, Fabrizio Montechi Corporeal mime, Omnibus The logic of movement in puppetry, Stephen Mottram Performing with masks & commedia dell'arte, Hugo Bélanger Animated cinema, Patrick Bouchard, NFB Performance I & II, Sylvie Tourangeau Puppet mechanisms, Patrick Martel, UQAM Drama, performance technique, UQAM Sculpture (wood, concrete), UQTR Professional internship (sculpture), Pierre Granche
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND Bachelor’s degree in visual arts creation (30 credits/sculpture), UQAM Creative writing certificate, UQAM Bachelor’s degree in visual arts education (engraving), UQAM KEY CAREER EXPERIENCE Creative work: visual arts, performance, puppetry, scenography 2016-2017 Creation of NOMADE SOUL, theater of images / Visual performance. Coproducers: Festival international des arts de la marionnette à Saguenay and Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes de Charleville-Mézières.
Since 2012 THE WHITE WOMAN, visual performance, mask and puppets - international festival performances.
2015 Portraits de famille –photo exhibition on puppeteers from Québec. Part of the Mons 2015 European Capital of Culture celebrations. An Association québécoise des marionnettistes and Castelet-Animation-Promotion (Wallonia) collaboration.
2015 Creative residency Titirimundi Festival, Segovia, Spain Work in progress: Nomad Soul – Poetry of inner movements
2014 Design and production of giant masks Présence Autochtone (Montréal First Peoples Festival), Terres en Vues, Montréal, Qc Design and production of hand puppets Suites Curieuses, Cas Public, Montréal, Qc
2010-2012 Full Moon, illuminated installation, giant puppet Casteliers festival (Montréal) & World Festival of Puppet Theatres, Charleville-Mézières (France)
2010 Assistant stage director and assistant scenographer Pour en finir avec…Cyrano, Théâtre Motus, Longueuil, Qc
2008-2009 Technical crew and assistant scenographer Parcours de l’imaginaire and Soirées de théâtre insolite, Les Sages fous, Trois-Rivières, Qc
2009 Voyage au centre de la lune, short piece Micro festival de marionnettes en chantier (Micro-festival of Unfinished Puppetry), Trois-Rivières, Qc Cabaret evening, Usine C, Montréal
2008 Kino Québec Animation Kabaret Sommets du cinéma d’animation / Cinémathèque québécoise, Québec, Qc
2008 Murmures à vide, short piece – work in progress Festival international des arts de la marionnette à Saguenay, Qc and Café-Concret Cabaret #4, Montréal
2004 Estime de soie, performance Lézarts coop, Les Journées de la Culture, Montréal
2004 Fais-moi danser, interactive installation and performance Maison de la Culture Frontenac, Montréal
2001 D’une relève à l’autre, installations, group exhibition Musée de Joliette, Qc
2000 J’eux, retrospective solo exhibition Centre d’Art contemporain, Repentigny, Qc
2000 Dance performance, experimental theatre Les Fenêtres, L’Impromptu de l’Assomption, L’Assomption, Qc
1999 Géographies à fleur de peau, indoor mural installation, art and architecture integration policy Public library, St-Côme, Qc
1998 Géographies à fleur de peau et autres poésies sur le désir, solo exhibit and book of prose Gallery Gora, Montréal
1992 Quai des départs, indoor mural installation and sculpture, art and architecture integration Public library, Repentigny, Qc
GRANTS 2017 Production / Canadian art Council 2017 Production, theatre/ Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec 2017 Travel grant, theatre / CALQ 2016 Development - research & creation, theatre / CALQ 2016 Travel grant, theatre / CALQ 2014 Travel grant, theatre / CALQ 2013 Travel grant, theatre / CALQ 2012 Travel grant, theatre / CALQ 2001 Development - research & creation, Visual Arts / CALQ 1989 Excellence grant, La relève lanaudoise / Ateliers Arts Visuels de Lanaudière
JURIES 2016 Jury of peers / CALQ – Theatre 2015 Jury of peers / CALQ – Regional artists and works of the year in literature, visual arts and theatre 2005 Visual arts specialist, jury member. Multidisciplinary grants, Fonds Lanaudière.
Visual arts specialist, provincial selection committee member. Art and architecture integration policy (1%).
Visual arts specialist, regional selection committee member, Lanaudière. Art and architecture integration policy (1%).
GUEST LECTURER AND PANELIST 2017 Puppetry and the human body - Puppetry Symposium, Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival 2016 My creative process - Chicago Art institute My creative path - Charleville-Mézières University, FranceMy creative process - Nomad Soul - Festival de Casteliers, Montréal 2015 Street Arts - Collège Laflèche, Trois-Rivières My creative process - CAOS, Calgary animated objects Festival, Calgary 2012 My creative process - Materia Prima Festival – Crakow, Poland
KEY PROFESSIONAL CULTURAL EXPERIENCE / TEACHING AND TRAINING Workshop facilitator, training leader and mentor for diverse groups: primary schoolchildren, high school students, and amateur and professional adults
2017 Professional workshop – The Creative Process 30-hour, multidisciplinary workshop (theory and practice). Association québécoise des marionnettistes (AQM) Lecturer – The Creative Process 90-hour, multidisciplinary course (theory and practice). Graduate program in contemporary puppet theatre (DESS), UQAM
Since 2012 Intensive, professional workshop facilitator (puppet prototype building and manipulation). 6 to 8 hour workshops: Tam-Tam Festival (Réunion Island), Rendez-vous Chez-Nous Festival (Burkina Faso), International Puppetry Festival (Turkey), Caos Festival (Calgary), National Puppetry Festival (Connecticut) Introductory workshop development and implementation (building and manipulation) for schoolchildren and amateur adults: Casteliers (Montréal), Charleville-Mézières (France) and Réunion Island
2016 Development and implementation of a series of creative workshops L’identité intérieure, part of a cultural mediation project with the Maison de la culture Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension. Multidisciplinary approach with immigrant women (Montréal) Private French tutoring for grade 9, 10 & 11 students to help them prepare their ministerial exams (Montréal’s South Shore)
2015 Private creative process and stage direction mentorship for puppeteer Karine Leblanc (Montréal) 2014 40-hour, intensive puppet design workshop facilitator for professionals (Percé)
TEACHER, Commission scolaire des Samares (Lanaudière)
2008-2010 Drama and art teacher, grades 9 & 10 1998-2008 Drama, art and scenography teacher, grades 9, 10 & 11 1997-1998 Drama teacher, grade 11 1992-1998 French teacher, grades 9, 10 & 11 1987-1992 Tutor for students with learning disabilities, grades 9, 10 & 11
Other teaching experience (primary, high school and adult groups)
2000-2010 Workshop facilitator for high school art teachers. Introduction to puppetry and prototype building. Commission scolaire des Samares (Berthierville)
1999-2005 Creative plastic artsworkshops for primary and high school groups. Journées de la Culture (Mandeville)
1984-1998 Project director, collective plastic arts and drama creations. Summer workshops, youth 6-15 years (Mandeville) Drawing workshops for beginner, intermediate and advanced adults (Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon)
1984-1998 Plastic arts workshops for people with intellectual disabilities (Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon and Saint-Jean-de-Matha)
KEY PURSUITS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL SECTOR
Since 2012 Cultural mediation coordinator, Casteliers school projects
Since 2010 International Councillor and Québec delegate, Union internationale de la marionnette (UNIMA) Committee member, AQM-UNIMA UNIMA Commission member: Cooperation, Three Americas and Cultural Exchanges (2010-2016)
2012-2015 Board secretary, UNIMA-Canada Assistant director, Casteliers. Project funding and direction for Marionnettes en vitrines!
2009-2003 Board vice-president, Association québécoise des marionnettistes (AQM) Member of the development committee, Maison internationale des arts de la marionnette (MIAM)
2011-2012 Logistics director, Casteliers international puppet festival
2010-2011 Member of the survey and manifesto working committee, Colloque sur les arts de la marionnette au Québec
2008-2010 Board secretary, Association québécoise des marionnettistes (AQM)
2002-2004 Board secretary and member of the artistic events promotion committee, Lézarts coop
1999-2000 Board member, Visual Arts Seat, Conseil Régional de la Culture de Lanaudière 1990-1992 Board member, Ateliers Arts Visuels de Lanaudière * * *