A visual story presentation in ASL Opera and Visual Vernacular.
About this Event
Caustic Effect is a new visual story theatre work-in-progress by Librettist Monique Holt (USA) and Landon Krentz (Canada) in a partnership between Inside Out Theatre (AB), re:Naissance Opera (BC) and Swedish performing artists from Riksteatern Crea (Sweden). This workshop performance brings in a professional director Jules Dameron (USA) as a part of the experiment.
The production explores how language is seen and understood by combining the movement, rhythmic structure, and meter present in Visual Gestural Communication (VGC), American Sign Language, Visual Vernacular and music.
As part of Nordic Bridges, sign language theatre artists from Sweden, led by Mindy Drapsa (Sweden, Artistic Director of Riksteatern Crea), have been mentoring the core-creative team. Combining of online sessions and in-person mentorship to support the creative process development work and providing much needed theatre training access to Deaf artists in Canada.
In addition to Caustic Effect, there is a Visual Vernacular performance to be developed by Visual Vernacular specialists Jamila Ouahid (Sweden) and Amina Ouahid (Sweden). They will be developing and performing with Landon Krentz (Canada) as a part of the process.
Debbie Rennie (Sweden) is a Sign Language Arts Master provided Landon Krentz specialized professional sign language theatre training prior to the workshop. This mentorship is an in-person series of performance masterclasses to advance professional sign language theatre as an artistic practice.
Cast: Landon Krentz, Jamila Ouahid, Amina Ouahid
Director: Jules Dameron
By: Monique Holt
Producer: Inside Out Theatre, re:Naissance Opera, Riksteatern Crea
Special Thanks: Harbourfront Centre - Nordic Bridges, Canada Council for the Arts, Iceland Air
*Artists updates may be added last minute and are subject to change
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
cSPACE King Edward, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, Canada
CAD 0.00
