PERFORMANCE CREATION CANADA

Performance Creation Canada Conference

January 9 to 11

WHAT IS IT?
Performance Creation Canada is a networking enterprise dedicated to the nourishment, management and study of performance creation in Canada, and the ecology in which it flourishes. As such, the network will endeavour to identify and advance the multifaceted interests of a multidisciplinary definition of work that is performed by the artist(s) who created it. Modeled loosely on the successful Informal European Theatre Meeting, Performance Creation Canada (PCC) is inviting the participation of artists, administrators, educators, funding institutions, presenters, agents, archivists and critics from the fields of theatre, dance and interdisciplinary work who are interested in the well being of this most Canadian of performance practices.

WHEN IS IT?
PCC will coincide with the first weekend of the 18th annual High Performance Rodeo. PCC sessions are timed to allow participants to see as many performances as possible. Please allow yourself lots of time for informal networking on and around the festival site.
January 8th, evening: delegates arrive
January 9th, morning session: 11am to 2pm
January 9th, afternoon session: 3:30pm to 6:30pm
January 10th, morning session: 11:30am to 2:30pm
January 10th, afternoon session: 4:30pm to 7pm
January 11th, good-byes

AGENDA
The agenda for the inaugural PCC is still in development. Because of the developmental nature of this event, it is to be expected that the most important topics for discussion will be centered around the need for a networking entity like PCC, and how it would work.

WHO WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE?
• Glenn Alteen, Artistic Director, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver
• Blake Brooker, Co-Artistic Director, One Yellow Rabbit
• Ann Brophy, Managing Producer, Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, St. John's
• Paul Caskey, Artistic Director, Studio 303, Montreal
• Michele Decottignies, Artistic Director - Stage Left Productions/Disability Arts Festival, Calgary
• Chris Dray, Executive Director, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse
• Sherrie Yoon, Artistic Director, Boca Del Lupo, Vancouver
• Ken Gass, Artistic Director, Factory Theatre, Toronto
• Michael Green, Co-Artistic Director, One Yellow Rabbit/High Performance Rodeo, Calgary
• Gerry Kretzel, Program Officer, Department of Canadian Heritage, Calgary
• Gordon Laurin, Executive Director, Live Art Productions, Halifax
• Massimo Mancini, Board Member, Informal European Theatre Meeting, Rome, Italy
• Emile Morin, Artistic Director, Productions Recto-Verso/Mois Multi, Quebec City
• Lou-Ann Neel, Director, Aboriginal Performance Program, Banff
• Robin Pointras, Artistic Director, New Dance Horizons, Regina
• Paul Reich, Theatre & Dance Officer, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton
• Rafik Sabbagh, Independent Agent, Danse Imédia / Transatlantique, Montreal
• Richard Simas, Artistic Director, Théâtre la Chapelle/Vasistas, Montreal
• Claude Schryer, Program Officer, Inter-Arts, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa
• Gerald Thurston, Professor, University of Calgary
• Dale Turri, Past President, Calgary Region Arts Foundation, Calgary
• And other guests TBA

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
Artists, companies, students, administrators, funding agencies, writers, archivists, critics, presenters, agents, educators, academics: if you are involved in performance creation, you are invited.

COST
$2 per session

 
 
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