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Theatre Direct presents Round Trip Home: Theatre Direct, one of the country’s leading theatres for young people located is pleased to announce Round Trip Home, an interactive arts exhibition for all ages housed in our unique centre devoted to arts education and performing arts serving children, youth and families, The Loop. The creation of Round Trip Home has been a process twelve weeks in the making. It began with Theatre Direct’s five-school arts residency. Five leading arts educators each collaborated with one local school and engaged them around the theme HOME. From grade 2 to grade 12, ideas about home and community have been percolating for nine weeks! Our dynamic artists for this residency are:
The public showings of Round Trip Home will showcase the process and creations of each residency group as assembled and envisioned by the incredible artists at Red Pepper Spectacle Arts (the creator’s of Kensington Festival of Lights)! Students will be able to listen to music, see small puppet theatres and shadow puppetry, watch videos, and read and marvel at all of the stories and pictures created by the neighbourhood’s young people. In addition, Theatre Direct’s Artist in Residence Eleanor Albanese will be on site running drop-in story creation workshops for families. Theatre Direct is proud of this unique project that will bring together our community of parents and teachers to celebrate young people’s creativity. Come join our Round Trip Home! ROUND TRIP HOME
POST CARD STORY BOOK CREATION with ELEANOR ALBANESE
“ Theatre Direct Canada’s work has set a new standard for artist/educator/community partnerships.” The Loop Centre for Lively Arts and Learning Artists Bios Darren Copeland – Artistic Director, New Adventures in Sound Art, Sound Artist Darren Copeland is a soundscape composer, radio artist, sound designer and concert producer. He has studied electroacoustic composition under Barry Truax (Simon Fraser University) and Dr. Jonty Harrison (University of Birmingham). His concert works have received mentions in competitions (Vancouver New Music, Luigi Russolo, Hungarian Radio, La Muse en Circuit, and Phonurgia Nova) and appeared on compilation CD releases (Storm of Drones, Radius #3, DISContact I & II, Lieu - Non Lieu, and Soundscape Vancouver). Rendu Visible, a CD devoted to his work, is available on the empreintes DIGITALes label. Other works combine his electroacoustic and theatrical backgrounds to break open disciplinary boundaries between electroacoustics, radio art, and theatre. Highlights include the adaptation of August Strindberg's A Dream Play (first radio drama at CBC conceived for broadcast in Surround 5.1), the soundscape documentaries Life Unseen and The Toronto Sound Mosaic, and a DORA nominated soundtrack for Samuel Beckett's That Time. As a producer and administrator, fond memories lie with Wireless Graffiti, a live-to-air radio extravaganza in 1993 co-produced by Rumble Theatre and Vancouver Pro Musica. After active histories with Vancouver Pro Musica, the Standing Wave Ensemble, and the Communauté électroacoustique Canadienne/Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) from 1990 to 1996, he now serves on the board of the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE) and is the Artistic Director for New Adventures in Sound Art.
Sharada's passion for words, both spoken and written, began at an early age. She hosted her first Children's Program on All India Radio when she was 11. Since then this love for words has found expression in diverse ways. A trained Indian classical musician (Carnatic School), she was part of the team representing India at the India Abroad show in Paris and New York. She was also one of three chosen by the Centres Culturels des Lions Clubs de Paris to present Indian culture in Normandy, France. Since then, Sharada has been performing and teaching in Toronto and internationally, drawing on her own South Asian ancestry and heritage. Recently she curated and hosted Kootir, South Asian Storytelling, at the Toronto Festival of Storytelling. She has been invited by Royal Ontario Museum to be one of their speakers for their Ornamenting the Ordinary Program. Through the Artist in Education program of the Ontario Arts Council, she teaches storytelling in the schools through shadow puppetry, and narrative writing for the Toronto District School Board's International Languages Program. Sharada is a published children's author. Her book, Ram's Caps, was recently published by Harcourt, Canada and she is working on her second collection of stories for children. Recently she undertook the challenge of adapting all 88 of the Panchatantra (Indian fables) for her new project A Tale of Tails. Her first workshop presentation from the fable The Mice Who Set the Elephants Free, was produced through a creation grant from the Ontario Arts Council. As an Artist-in-Residence (made possible through a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts), Sharada contributed to Theatre Direct's education programs for its production of Beneath the Banyan Tree and continues to develop A Tale of Tils toward a full stage piece for young people. The creation process will include dramaturgical consultation from Artistic Director Lynda Hill and workshops with young people in Toronto schools. She is currently working on a stage adaptation of the Mahabharath, which has been co-commissioned by Theatre Direct, Toronto and the National Arts Centre, Ottawa.
Lisa Pijuan-Nomura is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Toronto. She has performed theatre, dance, comedy, song and puppetry in Canada, Czech Republic, Austria, Mexico, and Ireland for the past 15 years. She is currently focused on combining storytelling, dance, sound and visual art to create dynamic performance pieces. As a graduate of the School of Physical Theatre, Lisa has a unique style of combining storytelling, movement and music in both choreographed and improvised pieces. Her one woman shows Stories My Body Told Me and She Said Saffron were performed at fFida, Harbourfront Ritmo Y Colour Festival, Montreal Fringe Festival, Toronto Storytelling Festival, RESIDANCE, and RED:A Night of Live Performance. Both shows tell stories of her family and their relationship with food, history and culture. Dance Critic Paula Citron of Classical 96.3 Radio writes “Light on her feet and expressive of voice, Pijuan is absolutely captivating.” Apart from curating and performing, Lisa uses her experience as an artist to help others. For the past 5 years she has been active as a creativity coach and workshop facilitator. She has taught creativity classes in Canada and Mexico.
Red Pepper Spectacle – Gabriella Caruso, Andy Moro Red Pepper Spectacle Arts has facilitated extensive multi-disciplinary community collaborative production at their own downtown Toronto storefront studio workshop, in schools across the GTA with particular focus on under-served neighborhoods, and in remote First Nations communities. Red Pepper activities, festivals and workshops are always vehicles for inclusive community participation. Open workshop production of imagery for the events draws the community together where collective and individual expression is facilitated, given space and supported. Perhaps best known is Red Peppers’ annual Kensington Festival of Lights, now in its 16th year, created in 1988 by Ida Carnevali and formally entrusted to Red Pepper directors Andy Moro and Gabriella Caruso in 1997 following several years’ apprenticeship. Community members and volunteer artists share creative workspace and non-traditional rooftop and storefront performance venues in a huge multi-cultural outdoor celebration of culture and imagery on the longest night of the year. The event has grown from a few hundred participants in the late nineties to over 10,000 in 2003.
Michelle Silagy is a graduate of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre’s Professional Training Program and has been active as a choreographer, dancer, and teacher since then. Her choreography, made in the company of Toronto’s independent community, has been referred to as “exquisite…filled with beautiful images that speak of rest, tranquility and hope” (Globe and Mail). It has been presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Enwave Theatre], Dusk Dances, festivals throughout the country, and at Series 8:08, which she co-founded. She is the inaugural recipient of the Toronto Dance Artist Award (for choreography) from the Toronto Community Foundation. Over the past 19 years, she has received several awards through the Ontario Arts Council’s Artists in Education program to bring dance to schools throughout the province. As a mentor artist with The Royal Conservatory of Music’s Learning Through the Arts program, Silagy works across Canada and abroad as a creative movement specialist. Silagy directs The Young Dancers’ Program (creative movement based) at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre.
For many years known as a percussionist and composer with a number of Canada’s premiere intercultural music pioneers, Sinha has begun to forge a name for himself in the world of audio, performance and new media art. His training under master drummers from various world percussion traditions from Cairo to Los Angeles inform his work and his exploration of the use of tradition as a tool for innovation. This basic premise finds expression in his creative work through a wide variety of approaches and source material---from sin waves to traditional percussion music to field recordings, and from motion graphics to raw video footage. Most often Sinha creates his works through a directed focus on distilling the elements of his source material into their component parts of light and sound. To him, this distillation is an expression of his own South Asian heritage, a gesture that infuses the form of classical Indian music (with its elements of mindfulness and improvisation) with content created from his own experience growing up in/between cultures and his eclectic skill set as sound designer, video maker, and musician. Sinha's continuing musical practice and re-interpretation of himself as an artist comfortable working in various media have allowed him to realize projects and performances from St. John's, Newfoundland to Berlin, Germany. He has been a recipient of grants from The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, and the Chalmers Foundation, which have allowed him to complete projects ranging from internet video installation to compositions for Taiko drummers. He continues to perform as a percussionist on the concert stage with Maza Mezé, Ensemble Polaris, Maryem Tollar, Leela Gilday, and others. Upcoming projects include new scores and video for dancer Peggy Baker, a new solo CD, and video screenings in Canada and Europe.
Nadene Thériault-Copeland – Managing Director, New Adventures in Sound Art Nadene Thériault-Copeland is Managing Director of New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), Business Manager of Musicworks Magazine and Financial Coordinator for Charles Street Video. Nadene is also on the board of directors of the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology. She promotes the dissemination of new and experimental sound art through her work with New Adventures in Sound Art, and recently edited three educational booklets published by NAISA: Radio Art Companion (2002), Sign Waves Companion (2002) and Sound in Space (2003). Nadene received her B.F.A. in Music from York University in 1991 where she studied composition with James Tenney. |
May 12, 2009 Round Trip Home Schools Performance and Exhibition 5 schools represented by close to 150 students aged 6 -16 present the results of a season long collaboration with Theatre Direct artists! |
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