COWBOY - HAIR FUNERAL
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CONTENT WARNING: Improvised, could contain topics of death, self-harm, substance use. Hair Funeral is a part-improvised, part music, and part-audience conversation piece led by two clowns (Werther and Tumbleweed) who want to explore aesthetics, identity, transformation, loss, and the manifestation and power of imagining oneself into a new way of being. Our hope for the show is to provide the audience with a special space to reflect upon (and mourn) their past selves, while opening the door to imagining new, infinite possibilities for their present selves. ARTIST PROFILE: COWBOY was born when fate allowed Ciarán Volke and Islay McKechnie to meet. They quickly bonded over their shared love of music, improv, comedy, and a desire to self-produce theatre. COWBOY has performed at the Paper Street Theatre 26-hour Improvathon, the Paper Street Theatre Duo-Festival, and Extended Space Theatre’s “Out of the Box Cabaret.” Their mission is to create shows that blend improv, music, clown, stop motion animation, and so much more. ARTIST: Islay McKechnie (they/she) - co-creator and performer Ciarán Volke (he/they) - co-creator and performer Rhi Smith (they/them) - musician and performer LINKS: IG @ciaranvolke IG @rhiannongsmith |
EL NEWELL - OUR LADY, STAR OF THE SEA
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CONTENT WARNING: Vomiting, Christianity, pregnancy, death. Our Lady, Star of the Sea is a solo dance theatre piece about grief, religion, sexuality, and the inherent horror of being a teenage girl. Miriam finds out she is the new Virgin Mary, and somehow, it’s still not the worst part of her week. ARTIST PROFILE: El Newell (they/she) is a director, playwright, and choreographer of Irish descent living, creating, and working toward their BFA on lək̓ʷəŋən territory. Focusing on works that explore queer relationships and teenage girlhood, El is always striving to create art that combines forms to create a unique viewing experience. Most recently, their play Horse Girl (2022) was produced by the Student Alternative Theatre Company. ARTIST: El Newell (they/she) playwright, Director, and Designer. Molly Jamin (she/her) performer LINKS: IG @elnewelll |
HOLLY M. BRINKMAN - MY BODY OF WORK
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CONTENT WARNING: Nudity Intergenerational trauma, diet culture, sexuality. There are some stories that can only be told with the body. Combining words and movement, Holly M. Brinkman pushes the boundaries of what is storytelling, what is poetry, and what is dance. ARTIST PROFILE: Holly M. Brinkman (she/her) is a storyteller, performer, and artist living and working on Lekwungen territory. She has toured all over North America with her hit solo show, A Women’s Guide to Peeing Outside and is the other half of the queer comedy duo Pack Animals. ARTIST: Holly M. Brinkman (she/her) performer / creator |
KERRI FLANNIGAN - WILD FLAME
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Wild Flame explores personal and familial mythologies, histories recorded within landscape, and reflections on complex relationships to the land, all through the lens of wildfire. This show looks at historical/cultural views on wildfire, my own connection to fire and my relationship with my dad, a wildfire scientist. ARTIST PROFILE: Kerri Flannigan is an interdisciplinary artist and educator currently based on Lkwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ Territories (Victoria, BC), who experiments with methods of research and storytelling through installation, video, and performance. This work frequently takes a collaborative form, working individually and collectively within a large group to create responses to ubiquitous themes. Family mythologies, coming-of-age confessions, queer experiences of place, fire, and swimming have all been subjects of recent works. ARTIST: Kerri Flannigan (she/they) LINKS: IG @flannyflannypack kerriflannigan.com |
LEE INGRAM - CRAWLING TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CENTRE (WORKING TITLE)
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An improvised interaction between dancer, Lee, and violinist, Owen. Both artists will enter a spontaneous and immersive state that speaks to the dynamics of their intimate and creative relationship, and their personal relationship to solitude. The story has structure, but the individual gestures and melodies will be improvised. ARTIST PROFILE: Lee is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with dance, movement, experimentation, and community theatre. For Lee, art is a continuous process of remembering, revealing, retelling, or resisting. Owen has collaborated with Lee to compose scores and the musical elements in her work. Owen focuses on the technical structure of storytelling, while Lee, the improvised. Together they discover ways of blending their unique artistic practices. ARTISTS: Lee Ingram, (lee/she/they) dancer. Owen Fairbairn (they/them) violinist. LINKS: FB: Lee Zed IG: @__weepingtendrils FB: Owen Fairbairn IG: @owenfairbairn |
MIRIAM DUMITRA - HOW TO BE A MAN (FOR EIGHT HOURS A DAY)
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CONTENT WARNING: Mentions of transphobia, partial nudity (actor in boxer briefs and binder), mention of sex, swearing. This show explores gender through clothing and the BC gold rush. After working as an actor portraying a lad from 1871, Miriam doffs their costume and dons their own clothes. With each clothing item, they tell stories of existing as a man, woman, and someone both, neither, and in between. ARTIST PROFILE: Miriam is a queer theatre practitioner and blacksmith with a BFA in Theatre from UVic. They write about lesbian archivists, gender euphoria, and reincarnation corporations, and their plays The Presence of All Hidden Things and Rain Carnation were produced with SATCo. They have also been published in This Side of West. In the summer, Miriam works in the historic town of Barkerville where they portray the apprentice blacksmith and design lighting at the Theatre Royal. . ARTIST: Miriam Dumitra (they/he/she) creator/writer/performer: Naomi Duska (she/her) director: LINKS: IG @artbymrd |
TIFFANY HANNAN - A VOYAGE / A DESTINATION
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CONTENT WARNING: Themes of grief Choreography development for the purposes of recording a music video for local band: Versa. An exploration of the journey of grief & healing. Themes being explored: Cathartic and authentic expressions of grief through movement, connection to one's inner demons, animalistic archetypes, death and the afterlife. ARTIST PROFILE: Tiffany is a government worker by day, and a dancer and aerialist by night. She has many years of formal training in tap, jazz, ballet, and hip hop, and discovered her love of modern dance in 2015, and started training in aerial arts at Island Circus Space in 2018. She has performed and trained with many local choreographers and companies, including Impulse Theatre, Broken Rhythms, Atomic Vaudeville, Third Canvas Dance (Kathy Lang), Raino Dance, Passion & Performance, Vibe Street Dance, and Victoria School of Contemporary Dance (Kelly Hobson), among others. Dance has been a powerful and cathartic force in her life. She believes movement has an incredible ability to facilitate healing and connection to oneself and one's community. Even though she has been dancing for decades, she is still discovering her own choreographic voice and creative confidence and is grateful for the opportunity to perform at Peek Show. ARTISTS: Tiffany Hannan (she/her) dancer Jesse Bell, Mathew Dolmage, Hollas Longton, Ben Rancourt, Anthony Theocharis and Janella Wrona Musicians from Versa (not present in performance) LINKS: IG @tiffles6 |
trick pony theatre - nana
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Nana is a multi-disciplinary work in progress based on my Mauritian grandmother who was a pathological liar. Her death rocked my world, and began my search in her own reflection for myself. Nana riffs on themes of masks, memory and the motherline, For Peek show, I'm experimenting with vocal looping using parts of the first draft of the script. ARTIST PROFILE: I’m a multi-disciplinary artist who recently returned to the island after working in devised physical theatre in Paris, France for over a decade. In Canada I’ve worked with companies such as Theatre Smith-Gilmour, Theatre SKAM, Impulse Theatre, Caravan Farm Theatre, Green Thumb Theatre. In France I was a troupe member of the Théâtre de l’Épee de Bois in Paris as well being a founding member of Compagnie des Wanderers. My work explores multi-dimensional female characters and I aim to walk the delicate line between comedy and tragedy. Nana has begun development with Puente Theatre as part of their WorkPlay series. ARTIST: Jayne Walling (she/her) performer/writer |
PLUTO - ACNE MAKE SKIN SANDSTONE
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CONTENT WARNING: disordered eating, sexual assault. A performance of one or two slam poems, accompanied by costume. ARTIST PROFILE: Pluto Faye is a 19 year old poet, performer, and playwright. Most of their writing centres around their own experiences with trauma, abuse, and mental illness. He tries very hard to add comedy in just the right places, in just the right amount. Being autistic and ADHD, their work often explores the nuances in human interaction, and how different it is from one brain to another. ARTIST: Pluto Faye (they/he) |