ARTISTS IN THIS VIDEO
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Santee Smith / Tekaronhiáhkhwa, Multidisciplinary (Dance, Theatre)
Turtle Island (Canada)
“Santee uses the stage not merely for entertainment purposes but acts as an
ambassador to the non-Indigenous world showing the beauty and continued pro-
active urgency to tell our stories before they are forgotten. Santee Smith never
stops.” Shelley Niro (Artist)
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Silje Figenschou Thoresen, Visual/Contemporary artist
Norway
“[Her works] suggest a process where it is possible to continue asking what the material wants to become as the material might change its mind.”
-Markus Degerman, artist and currently Dean, Art and Craft, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and co-founder of Uglycute.
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Milton Lim, Interdisciplinary Arts (Digital Media + Performance)
Canada
“Audacious, avant-garde, experimental—and as one grinning audience member put it so accurately after the show […] This is work that’s bold, technically savvy, and risky. Like that viewer said, unapologetic.”
Janet Smith (Georgia Straight, April 13th, 2017)
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Lisandro Rodríguez, Playwright/Director
Argentina
“Lisandro Rodríguez, un artista escénico que desde hace años viene profundizando sus búsquedas, llevándolas a zonas de un potente valor en el mapa de la experimentación.” (Alejandro Cruz – La Nación)
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Crazy Smooth, Choreographer/Dancer
Canada
“We are proud to recognize the work of Crazy Smooth with the Clifford E. Lee Choreography Award, This is a strong statement of support for hip-hop within the community of contemporary dance in Canada.” – Janice Price, President and CEO of Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
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Janaina Leite, Performer/Director
Brazil
Janaina Leite é atriz, diretora e dramaturgista, referência na pesquisa sobre o uso de documentário e autobiografia no teatro brasileiro. Com “Stabat Mater” e seu novo processo “Ensaios Escopofílicos para uma História do Olho”, tensiona teatro, experiência e pornografia sob a perspectiva de um real obsceno.
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Finn Anderson, Music Theatre
Scotland
“He is a voice and creative centre who will continue to gain a profile across his homeland of Scotland, throughout the UK musical theatre industry and internationally.” (Musical Theatre Review).
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Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, Theatre/spoken word/hip hop
Canada
“wordsmith Donna-Michelle St. Bernard bridges hip hop and political activism in a harrowingly honest commentary on systemic racism, social injustice, and freedom of artistic expression.” – Camila Fitzgibbon, MontrealHub
PRESENTERS IN THIS VIDEO
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Pam Patel, Artistic Director at MT Space
Canada
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Federico Irazabal, Artistic Director of FIBA
Argentina
CAPACOA would like to thank the following individuals and organizations without whom this project would not have been made possible:
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With the participation of the Government of Canada.
This project is supported in part, by a contribution from Global Affairs Canada’s CanExport Associations program and by a contribution from the Department of Canadian Heritage’s Creative Export Canada Program.
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