Discipline: interdisciplinary arts

kimura byol-nathalie lemoine

nathalie lemoine (né.e kimura byol) is a multimedia artist and curator, born in korea (south), educated in belgium, and established to canada. kimura-lemoine’s visual work, poems/writing and short films were presented internationally solo and in group. as a curator, kimura-lemoine has developed projects that give voice and visibility to minorities and as an activist archivist, ze is working on ACA (adoptees cultural archives) to document the history of adoptee’s culture through media and arts. kimura byol-nathalie lemoine works on issues surrounding identities: diaspora, ethnicity, colorism, gender, and play with words. kimura-lemoine doesn’t like to use capital letters.

jacqueline van de geer

Jacqueline van de Geer was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to Canada in 2005. She holds degrees in both visual and performance arts. Growing up in Rotterdam, a scarred place that was accidentally bombed twice during World War II, imparted her with a ‘do a lot with almost nothing’-approach to her practice. She works in Europe and Canada as a performer and theatrical DJ. Since coming to Montréal, Jacqueline has started to write short plays and create solo works that are bilingual, non-linear, and somewhat dada-inspired. In her performances she hopes to create a space where participants can open up to a collective experience: to share, to exchange, to be touched, and to speak out. Her work focuses on issues of intimacy and reconnection.

Image: Julie Laurin

alexandra templier

Alexandra Templier’s artistic approach draws on philosophy, theatre, and singing – both lyrical and cante flamenco. With the project Los Niños son Inocentes#1, she tackles the question of confidence: where can true speech be found today? Whose words can we still trust ? What can we base our own self-confidence in – and hence our action – when we feel so powerless amidst the current socio-political context?

Intercultural in its making as much as in its content, Los Niños son Inocentes#1 combines musical styles and references familiar to North American audiences (jazz, electric guitar, audio programming) with a theatrical narrative and a series of striking elements : flamenco singing, extreme sounds, and deeply-felt texts. The goal: to break with the noise of the everyday, to create silence in the spectator and so return to what is essential.

Alexandra Templier’s work is guided by the desire to turn the stage into the site of a non-denominational religious experience in which the voice has pride of place. Los Niños son Inocentes#1 is a cathartic performance that stirs optimism about the Human and “this beauty that can save the world.”

gabriel dharmoo

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Gabriel Dharmoo’s artistic practice encompasses composition, vocal improvisation and research. As a composer, he was awarded the Canada Council for the Arts’ Prix Jules-Léger for chamber music (2017). His solo performance Anthropologies imaginaires was prized at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival (2015) and the SummerWorks Performance Festival (2016). His next project, currently under development, draws on the complex relationship between the artist and Indian/South Asian culture and is framed as an experimental foray into Bollywood, queer sub-culture, and disconcertingly strange vocalizations.

audrey-anne bouchard

Audrey-Anne Bouchard is an interdisciplinary creator working in the performing arts. Audrey-Anne’s current project seeks to create an immersive experience that circumvents the sense of sight, and thereby becomes accessible to seeing-impaired spectators. Titled Au-delà du visuel [beyond the visual], this inventive, multi-phase project (the artist’s first such creation) brings together, in a collective creation process, a large team of collaborators including dancers-choreographers, stage and sound designers, actor and playwright, around a single challenge: to tell a story through dance and theatre beyond their visual dimension, by the elaboration of new atmospheres and through a close interaction amongst the performer and the spectator.