CURRICULUM
CREATION and TEACHING
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)
2011
Nomad Soul mask exhibit
Masqu’Alors international mask festival, St-Camille, Qc
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.
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, France My 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 arts workshops 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
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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)
2011
Nomad Soul mask exhibit
Masqu’Alors international mask festival, St-Camille, Qc
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, France My 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 arts workshops 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
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