COSMOS
Designed by Ellen Furey and Sophie Corriveau, and curated with Winnie Ho, COSMOS is a new performance platform at Danse-Cité. From October 4th to 7th, 2023, audiences can discover two choreographic projects created during a three-week creative immersion at the Mainline Theatre.
Danse-Cité is looking to shake up the rhythm of a creative process. For this first edition, two artists will receive time, space, and resources to present their choreographic work without depending on successful grant applications. We have rented the Mainline Theatre for three weeks and are offering a fee for the process and performances. Each artist can allocate funds as they see fit. COSMOS aims to offer artists the means and the opportunity to create in a context centering freedom and playfulness. Following the three-week creative process, four performances will reveal the fruits of this exploratory challenge. The purchase of a ticket gives access to : Performance #1 + Meal + Performance #2
Kim Ninkuru and Dorian Nuskind-Oder are the first two artists to accept the conditions offered by the curators:
• Create a performance in three weeks;
• Conclude the three-week period by a series of performances;
• Work as you wish with access to the theatre 24 hours a day, seven days a week;
• Perform in your work;
• Use limited technical resources;
• Avail yourself to a technical and dramaturgical team;
• Collaborate with the team of your choice.
Credits
Choreography and performance: Kim Ninkuru
Collaboration to scenic elements and outside eye: Kadine Lindsay
Dramaturgical support and facilitator: Hanako Hoshimi-Caines
Technical Co-direction: Justin Houde, Samuel Thériault
Production coordinator: Carmen Ruiz
COSMOS is dreamed by Ellen Furey and Sophie Corriveau and curated by Winnie Ho and Sophie Corriveau.
COSMOS is made possible thanks to the financial support of : Conseil des arts du Canada, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal and to Mainline Theatre’s collaboration.
About the artist
I’m not queen, I’m princess!
It's not easy going through a second puberty in your mid-twenties. In this performance combining spoken word, dance, humor and a touch of (necessary) delusion, Kim Ninkuru takes you through her journey to womanhood.
Practical Informations
Dates
Doors open at 6 PM.
October 4, 2023 — 6.30 PM
October 5, 2023 — 6.30 PM, talkback with the artists
October 6, 2023 — 6.30 PM
October 7, 2023 — 6.30 PM
Venue
Mainline Theatre
3997 Boul. Saint Laurent, Montréal
H2X 1Y4
Rates*
Unique: 28 $
Tandem: 50 $
*The purchase of a ticket gives access to : Performance #1 + Meal + Performance #2
Box office
https://montrealfringe.online.red61.ca/event/2030:345/
Duration
90 minutes
Accessibility
Stairs at the entrance, no ramp or lift.
Talkback with the artists
The talkback after the performance on October 5, 2023 will be animated by Hanako Hoshimi-Caines.
Notes
Bilingual evening, French and English
Mainline Theatre offers a bar service on site. Cash and debit/credits cards accepted.