PERFORMANCE LAB
RESIDENCY PROGRAM

​ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE LAB: 
Impulse presents the second Performance Lab Residency Showcase. The Residency Program is  dedicated to the cultivation of new interdisciplinary and physical performance work with each project receiving five days of studio space to explore and create these interdisciplinary works, before sharing their findings at a public showcase. 


This year's Program includes:
January 19, 2020 - Barb Biggs & Erica Petty's The Twims
Wake up with Twims Digaday and Twims Digadoo to a playful journey around their house tree and in and out of Seasons. Can they comfort a Giant? Will the Singing Stone grant their wishes? Or will they simply sit around eating pears all day? An immersive play experience for the very young. 

This residency is now complete. Congratulations to Barb & Erica!
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January 26, 2020 at 2pm - Impulse Theatre's Untitled Joy Project
A new work of dance-theatre, this project asks can joy spark a rebellion? Impulse Theatre explores delight and community in an age of anxiety and shame through choreography, song, and physical theatre. What’s in joy that makes us want to take care of each other? 

No pre-booking required for the Untitled Joy Project.
Join us at the Metro Studio Theatre (1411 Quadra St).
All showings are by donation. The venue is wheelchair accessible with three gender neutral washrooms. A talk-back or Q+A will follow each showing.

The 2020 Program is presented with the support of Intrepid Theatre.

THE PARTICIPANTS:

BARB BIGGS & ERICA PETTY
Barb and Erica are Teaching Artists who have focused their professional and educational lives on empowering children to tell their own stories through devised theatre. Outside the classroom, Erica is General Manager for Story Theatre. Barb is a certified drama educator and Administrator for the Art History and Visual Studies Department at UVic. As co-creators, we believe in making theatre that allows human beings to jump into the pages of their favourite stories. 
IMPULSE THEATRE
Conceived on a rock beside the Pacific Ocean in 2010, Impulse Theatre has been creating and producing theatre in Victoria for the last 10 years. Known for their unique visual aesthetic, along with a penchant for modernizing myth and archetype, Impulse Theatre continues in its tradition of creating innovative physical theatre which both uses and subverts storytelling structure. Their work has been presented by upintheair's rEvolver Theatre Frestival, the Belfry's Spark Festival, Intrepid's Winterlab, UnoFest, and YOU Show series, Theatre SKAM's Bike Ride, and the Firehall Arts Centre's BC Buds Festival.

PAST PARTICIPANTS

2019
Broken Rhythms - Whirlpool
Impulse Theatre - how to pull your heart out of your throat
The Wonderheads - A Wonderheads Christmas Carol
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