Since 1998, Suzanne Miller & Allan Paivio Productions has worked toward a hybrid, poly-cultural repertoire of new dance and music unique to Canada. The distinctive character of the company derives from an ongoing series of cultural and artistic exchanges that feed our creative process. Collaborating since 1985, Suzanne Miller and Allan Paivio envelop their audiences in a total theatre that combines hypnotic choreographic sequences with electrical aural landscapes. With sound and movement they merge every facet of the performance experience into an integrated encounter with the sublime. Their career as a choreographer and composer team has evolved over the past two decades. Productions in the theatre and site-works have toured throughout Canada, the United States, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, Mexico and Venezuela. www.millerpaivio.com

With a shared background in performance art, theatre, circus, dance, and clown, Continental Drift Theatre works with image, the melodramatic body, and comic rhythm to create performances that resonate both in the belly and in the mind. www.continentaldrifttheatre.com

SaSaSa: Creative craftsmen of imaginary folklore built through a contemporary and iconoclastic vision of traditional arts with flamenco as the main influence.
Through improvisation, and the interweaving of cultural influences, SaSaSa pioneers a new genre in settings as diverse as contemporary dance, flamenco and music scenes. Since 1997, the imagination of Rae Bowhay (choreographer) and Martin Trudel (composer), combined with the precious participation of collaborators, has yielded a vast repertoire of surprising works. www.sasasa.ca

Allison Ulan’s interest in the art of dance and theatre is to reveal why we move and what moves in all of us. Her dance career began in 1986 with Ballet North. She graduated from The Juilliard School for the Performing Arts (New York City) and The London Contemporary Dance School (London) both under scholarships. She went on to work in Europe and North America with Robin Wright, Pina Bausch, Mark Morris, Livia Daza-Paris, Jay Hirayabashi, Esmeralda Enrique and Keaja d’Dance. From 1996 to 1999, she received grants for her The Field Projects from the Toronto Arts Council. In 2000, she received the Millennium Arts Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts for her Solea Project. Currently she is working on This is the address of my soul, an evening piece on the body as sacred and the links in us between survival, hatred, interdependence and love. She founded and co-directs Ashtanga Yoga Montreal where she teaches classes and directs teacher trainings.

Born to a Spanish father and a Quebecker mother native to Montreal, Barbara Requesens works in the field of arts as a circus artist, dancer, musician and actress. The adventure begins in Fall 2003 when she abandons a career in biochemistry in order to pursue her aspirations and joins Debra Brown’s troop Line1. Under her expertise, she concretizes her dreams of using her assets in dance (flamenco), acrobatics (aerial tissue) and music (percussions). Since then, she is part of three musical projects (omegadom, mutant muses and the new Cha Cha Da Vinci project). She played Molina in Luc Picard’s latest movie Babine and participated in the 2009 DrumFest in a flamenco creation entitled Duende confusion. Barbara’s myspace

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