Jacqueline Van de Geer – Becoming
15 ⇾ Feb. 19 2027 (Monday – Friday)
09:30 to 12:30
Weekly rate:$95
Drop-in:$28
French, English
This workshop is accessible to individuals who require mask-wearing. Mask-wearing may be requested of everyone for the entire duration of the workshop.
Registration will open on Sunday, November 1, 2026.
#Creative process #Interdisciplinary #Somatic
© Jurgen Fritz
Objective
Can old age bear witness to beauty? Far from the clichés of decline, this workshop invites you to reinvent aging as a source of inspiration. What if every wrinkle were the map of an imaginary world?
Through a playful and performative approach, we will explore aging not as an end, but as raw creative material. The program is built around three pillars:
Bodily Exploration: Using authentic movement and improvisation to inhabit our sensations.
Storytelling: Diving into personal and collective memories through automatic writing.
Play: Embodying envisioned versions of old age through role-play and imaginary realms.
This space for sharing, open to all ages, acts as a laboratory for collective reflection. Depending on the group, this journey may culminate in a short performance.
Content
We’ll share stories, reflections, and short performances. All ages are welcome, as well as diverse groups such as adolescents, students, seniors, women, and queer individuals.
Each session, we check in with each other, and a soft warm-up will follow, through automatic writing and authentic movement. From there, we will explore through improvisation the possibility of developing performance material.
After a break, we work solo or in groups to prepare a presentation for the group and discuss what we have been working on to close the session.
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Biography
Originally from the Netherlands, Jacqueline van de Geer crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 2005 to live and work in Montreal. She completed a Bachelor’s in Visual Art and a Bachelor’s in Performance Art in the Netherlands.
Her artistic practice draws inspiration from universal themes such as heritage, family, democracy, warring and the politics of exclusion. History often is closer to our present world than we realize, and it is interesting to her to research and reveal those connections between the past and the present that are uncovered and somewhat hidden.
She merges a variety of skills: movement, monologue, object manipulation, improvisation, performance, video, collages, photography, automatic writing, and audience participation.
It is important to her to surprise herself in her process and to share this exciting feeling of ‘the un- expected’ with her participants.
Creating intimacy, garnering trust and at times revealing the unsettling are critical to her performance practice.
“An excellent teacher. Very warm, a great listener, and very attuned to the participants. I felt completely at ease.”
— Marie-Paule R.
Partners
This workshop is supported by the Conseil de la formation continue arts et culture de Montréal (CFC) in collaboration with Studio 303. The CFC’s continuing education activities are supported by the Intervention-Compétences program, thanks to the financial participation of the Quebec government.
