THE WHITE WOMAN
Poetical performance
whitout words
The White Woman was showcased at various different festivals in Québec and abroad.
Performed close to 200 times from 2012 to 2019, the show is no longer available for touring.
With The White Woman, Magali Chouinard takes a tender look at how solitude can be a special place, a place where we can discover and rediscover ourselves.
By daring to be silent, to move slowly and deliberately, and by steering away from a linear narrative, she empowers her visual poetry. She captivates and moves her audience with a succession of images and allegories.
The White Woman is an acutely sensitive presence, a visual poetry where silence touches the soul and evokes the beauty of profound solitude and the relationship to oneself.
In a series of living pictures, the character – all at once adult, young girl and old woman, wolf and raven – will reveal her may aspects in shadow and light.
TRANSLATION: Denise Babin Communication
Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes de Charleville-Mézières - 2013 - photo: Patrick Argirakis
Creation, direction, scenography and performance: Magali Chouinard
Acting coach: Marthe Adam
Creative collaboration: Richard Morin, Emmanuelle Calvé and Jean Cummings
Many thanks to Gille Renaud for his encouragement and support, which gave me the courage to embark on the first steps of creation and public releases!
Thank you to Les Sages Fous and their Soirée de Théâtre Insolite who have nourished my professional creation journey towards the living arts.
Thank you to Isabelle Payant for her wise and generous advices.
Thank you to Marthe Adan and Louise Lapointe who believed in the beauty of the poetry of images combined with mystery.
Thank you to the gang of beautiful women from the festival La Rue Kitétone who opened the great doors of the street for me!
Thank you to Dominique Leroux for the first puppetry that opened the doors of this vast form of art, as alive as it is magical.
Sound environment (studio presentation only): Julien-Robert Legault-Salvail
Acting coach: Marthe Adam
Creative collaboration: Richard Morin, Emmanuelle Calvé and Jean Cummings
Many thanks to Gille Renaud for his encouragement and support, which gave me the courage to embark on the first steps of creation and public releases!
Thank you to Les Sages Fous and their Soirée de Théâtre Insolite who have nourished my professional creation journey towards the living arts.
Thank you to Isabelle Payant for her wise and generous advices.
Thank you to Marthe Adan and Louise Lapointe who believed in the beauty of the poetry of images combined with mystery.
Thank you to the gang of beautiful women from the festival La Rue Kitétone who opened the great doors of the street for me!
Thank you to Dominique Leroux for the first puppetry that opened the doors of this vast form of art, as alive as it is magical.
Sound environment (studio presentation only): Julien-Robert Legault-Salvail
Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou and Bobo Dioulasso - Festival Rendez-vous chez nous - photos: Diaphante Noël
Turkey - Gazientep and Nizip refugee camp at the Syrian border - photos: Caglayan Sevincer