Alex del Angel - Be small for me
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There’s sometimes when people will ask you to shrink for them, because they don’t want you to show your full colours, because it may be menacing for them, this is snippet of someone fighting against being small for them… ARTIST PROFILE: Born in Tampico, Mexico, Alex started his dance training exploring street styles such as hip-hop, popping, and waacking, continuing with contemporary dance at age 19 for then being accepted into the Victoria Academy of Ballet Post-Secondary Bridge Program. Training Cecchetti Ballet technique and Contemporary dance. Alex has had the opportunity to train under Jermaine Spivey, David Raymond, Tiffany Tregarthen, and Kate Franklin, who inspired him to rethink dance as a whole; also having the pleasure to work with choreographers such as Alysa Pires, Lynda Raino, and Angela Mousseau. ARTIST: Alex del Angel (he/him), choreographer Elstana Blair (she/her), dancer Manuel Capistran (he/him), dancer LINKS: IG @alexdelangell |
Kiley Verbowski - Me Missing You
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CONTENT WARNING: Poor mental health is described With the magic of an overhead projector, this play illustrates one girl’s meditations on missing her loved one. ARTIST PROFILE: Kiley Verbowski is a writer, puppeteer, and bus driver. She co-owns Over the Moon Puppet Theatre with Sophie Underwood, which previously developed live puppet shows for kids, and now devises work from separate continents. Most recently, Kiley and Sophie wrote an adult-friendly sex ed puppet show called Going All the Way with Theatre SKAM. You can catch it on stage again this spring in Victoria, and in the Calgary fringe festival. ARTIST: Kiley Verbowski (she/her), creator and performer LINKS: IG & FB @overthemoonpuppets |
Lee Ingram - what, if not continuity?
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‘what, if not continuity?’ is a solo work-in-progress project, researching the relationship between movement, memory, and identity. Does forgetting contradict ideas of a continuous self? What can the body alone remember? The performance explores these questions using poetry, video, and improvised dance—spiralling in riddles towards a cathartic release. ARTIST PROFILE: Lee Ingram (lee/she/they) is an emerging multi(non)disciplinary artist living and working on the ancestral territories of the Lkwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. Lee has been engaging primarily in collaborative work for the past 2 years, and is currently an Artist-in-Resident at Dance Victoria. Lee’s creative process is grounded in experimentation, improvisation, and healing. Lee’s work often weaves a variety of mediums together to explore themes of solitude, identity, spirituality, the grotesque, the theatrical, and the mundane. ARTIST: Lee Ingram (lee/she/they), creator and performer Owen Fairbairn (they/them), sound designer LINKS: IG @_weepingtendrils |
Loreto Espinoza - oscar inside the spiral
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CONTENT WARNING: Death, grieving Oscar is no longer alive, but that doesn't mean he can't continue his journey though this planet. Puppetry, coloured tiny lights, heart warmth and endlessness are some topics of this story about life and death, or death and life. ARTIST PROFILE: Chilean actor and craft maniac. After some time around Chilean stages, Loreto has worked with lots of kind people from Victoria's theatre scene: Atomic Vaudeville, SKAM, Impulse and Story Theatre to name a few. She is thrilled to count with the presence of actors Regina, Danny, Rose and Andrea for this project! Thank you Kathleen Greenfield, Finn Kelly, Ingrid Hansen, Britt Small, Pamela San Martín and Sebastián Farah (puppeteer masters who saw Oscar 's birth!). ARTISTS: Conceived and directed by Loreto Espinoza (she/her) Puppeteers: Andrea Lemus (she/her), Rose McTavish, Daniel Saretsky (he/him), Regina Ríos (she/her) and Loreto Espinoza (she/her) Puppetry consultant and sound editing by Kathleen Greenfield (they/she) |
The Merkin Sisters - Merkin Sisters, Bitty bits
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CONTENT WARNING: Sexual Content; may contain nudity One half of the Merkin Sisters, flaunting new high-art experiments. Fallen from fame, two sisters will stop at nothing to present their ‘Ultimate Piece of Art’. This vivacious romp will charm your pants off, leaving you stunned and hungry for their return. “Visually arresting & immaculately staged, with a tender heart under its hair-raising exterior.”- Winnipeg Free Press. Their debut album of pop bangers is available now on itunes/spotify/youtube and www.themerkinsisters.com. ARTIST PROFILE: Ingrid is a television puppeteer, voice actor, and theatre creator. On television, Ingrid puppeteers for Sesame and Henson. She plays Heart, a lovable agender orange monster on Helpsters, Sesame Workshop’s Emmy-Award-Winning series for AppleTV+. Recently she puppeteered and voiced characters on Henson’s new Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock series. She is co-artistic director of SNAFU Society of Unexpected Spectacles. ARTISTS: Ingrid Hansen (She/Her), co-creator & performer Stephanie Morin-Robert (She/Her), co-creator LINKS: Insta @themerkinsisters & @iamingridhansen SPOTIFY www.snafudance.com www.themerkinsisters.com |
Ragamuffin Productions - FRANK
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FRANK is a monologue/movement piece. Being in Grade 8 is tough. When Harper decides to build an evil robot, she finds herself more connected to artificial intelligence than expected. Inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, this piece explores teenage girlhood and anxiety through robo-friendships. COMPANY PROFILE: Ragamuffin Productions was founded in 2017 by Sargil Tongol, Ashley Chodat and Christian Krushel in Vancouver, BC. Their most recent work, June Bug was presented at Vancouver Fringe Festival 2022 where it won the inaugural TYP Family Forward Award in collaboration with Carousel Theatre. Upcoming: June Bug UpintheAir's rEvolver Festival at The Cultch, Victoria Fringe Festival 2023. ARTISTS: Ashley Chodat (she/her), playwright/director/designer Annie Lucas (she/her), performer Mariah Madill (she/her), performer LINKS: IG @ragamuffinproduction @ashley.chodat |
Sarah Shepherd - Love, in Five Faces
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of terminal illness. Love, in Five Faces explores the journey of two lovers, over the course of multiple interweaving lives, in which every character is performed by one actor. The stories overlap with each other, reference each other, happening hundreds of years apart and all at the same time. ARTIST PROFILE: Sarah is a 2023 graduate of UVic's Theatre program. They enjoy exploring a multitude of jobs within the theatre, from performing, to playwriting, to designing. Sarah loves magical realism, and they love pushing the boundaries of what theatre can be and accomplish. As both a queer and a disabled artist, Sarah enjoys representing these communities onstage whenever they can. Sarah invites you to see their play, Bruised Fruit, at Iuvenis Theatre coming up soon! ARTISTS: Sarah Shepherd (any pronouns), Creator/Performer Amanada Lisman (she/her), Facilitator LINKS: IG @sheptheshoop |
timetheft theatre - the conductor
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CONTENT WARNING: Death of loved one, grief, homophobia, profanity The Conductor is an absurdist piece that explores what goes through the mind of men going through grief. Memories resurface, thoughts come and go and the Conductor is right in the middle of it. Is he instigating those thoughts or is the conductor just controlling them. COMPANY PROFILE: timetheft theatre is a group of emerging artists hoping to create new and exciting work that draws inspiration from the avant-garde as well as more traditional works that speak to us as individuals. Our work strives to be accessible to the community and to start conversations to create meaningful change. ARTIST: Director: Thomas Moore (he/they) Performed and devised by: Morgan Christopher (he/they) Theo Falkiner (he/they) Aiden Finn (he/him) Nadia Myroon (they/them) Stevie Welsh (they/she) LINKS: Insta @timethefttheatrecompany |