WORKSHOP Agent-Producers and Programmers in Dialogue

activities
08 November
10:30 - 12:00 Hôtel Bonaventure
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We propose a meeting to encourage exchanges between agents and programmers in order to promote a better way of working together and to better understand the challenges of both roles. How to ensure a healthy and respectful professional dynamic? Generating constructive dialogues? Recognising the importance of working together in an open and creative way? Tips for the new generation...
Participants
Alix Dufresne Production J'le dis là
+1-438-393-1242
Since her training in directing at the National
Theatre School of Canada, Alix Dufresne
has presented “Les paroles” at Prospero
(2014), “Nuits Frauduleuses” at CTD'A (2016),
“Hidden Paradise” at the FTA, at the Festival
d'Avignon and on tour in Quebec and Europe
(2016-2022), “La déesse des mouches à
feu” at Quat'Sous (2018), “Féministe pour
hommes” at Usine C (2021) and “Malaise dans
la civilization” at the FTA (2022). She is a new
associate artist at Usine C and her creations
will be an integral part of the programming of
the next seasons (2022-2025). Alix Dufresne's
creations have a hybrid style, on the borderline
between dance, theatre and performance. She
explores the body and various media by combining
artistic material with committed speech.
Her shows, whether poetic, sociological or
political, always resonate with the concerns
of today's world.
Line Rousseau A Propic
0031 6 28272 1 99
Line Rousseau is the founder of the Creative
Agency A propic. Graduated from The High
School of the Social Sciences Paris (Ecole
des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and
the University of Montreal, Line Rousseau has
always been very interested in cultural policies
in Europe and North America and in the status
of artists in France and in Quebec. In 1998,
Line Rousseau moved to the Netherlands,
where she discovered an innovative cultural
system (dance academies and theatres, workspace
for emerging artists, production houses,
and great support for international sales). After
working at Productiehuis Brabant, a Dutch
production house in the south of the country,
Line Rousseau decided in 2005 to start her
Creative Agency for International promotion
for the Performing and Visual Arts. Since then,
her agency has been organizing international
tours, co-productions and residencies for
artists and companies. Since 2010, A propic
also organizes Dutch focus in partnership with
foreign venues such as Le Théâtre de Vanves,
L’Usine C in Montreal and the Dance Center
in Zagreb.
Asa Edgren LOCO WORLD
+ 46 8 676 03 29
Åsa Edgren founded the successful cultural
exchange organization Loco World (Formerly
known as Loco Motion) in 2004 after studying
as a Performing Arts Manager at UNIARTS,
Stockholm. Since starting LW, she has brought
a number of small- and medium-sized Swedish,
European and Asian art groups from various
disciplines on international tours and built a
global audience base with a keen appreciation
for Scandinavian modern arts. Åsa Edgren is
a board member of the International Society
for the Performing Arts. Prior to founding LW
(LM), Åsa Edgren held producer and general
manager roles at dance famed choreographer
Philippe Blanchard’s production and Management
Company. She also turned an old factory
into a Theater, later used by The Cultural capital
of Stockholm in 1998, where Peter Greenaway
exposed his 100 objects exhibition. She
has forged a number of partnerships with
overseas organizations to bring internationally
renowned artists such as modern dance icons
Marie Chouinard as well as Ohad Naharin
to Scandinavia for exchanges, workshops
and performances. She also teaches at the
International Management master program
at Uniarts in Stockholm.
Menno Plukker Menno Plukker Theatre Agent, Inc.
343-984-9272
Menno Plukker has been involved since
1981 in theatre and dance management.
From 1981-1985 he directed a foundation
for multi-ethnic theatre in The Netherlands
(S.T.I.P.T.) and programmed a multi-cultural
theatre festival (Stagedoor) in Amsterdam
in 1983-1984. He was Administrative Director
of Theater De Balie in Amsterdam from
1986-1988, and founded his own theatre
booking agency in 1987, providing financial,
production and promotion services to a wide
array of theatre and dance companies in
the Netherlands through 1990. In 1989, he
started to represent and produce artists and
companies from Québec in Europe. In 1990
he moved to Montréal and he has dedicated
himself mostly to worldwide representation
of Canadian theatre and dance artists since.
From 1995-2003 Menno produced three editions
of the Six Stages festival in Toronto, in
collaboration with Sherrie Johnson. In 2002,
Sherrie Johnson and Menno Plukker organized
Six Stages in Europe, a presentation of
Canadian theatre and dance in 3 European
cities: Glasgow, Berlin and Prague. Menno
was also involved as a programming consultant
with LIFT (London International Festival
of Theatre) in London, England in 2008.
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