Sylvie Tourangeau – My performative identity
08 ⇾ Mar. 12 2027 (Monday – Friday)
09:30 to 13:30
Weekly rate:$130
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
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Objective
To provide an active laboratory and a safe environment in order to bring out your fundamental motivations and translate them into performative actions that reflect the unique aspects of your identity as well as your interdisciplinary practice.
To use the principles of performance to bring together elements of various kinds (gestures, words, actions, objects, temporalities, spatial arrangements, devices, etc.).
To develop your own strategies for creation, intervention, and communication.
Enhance your creative capacity in all aspects of the creative process. Realize new perspectives in the production and dissemination of artistic work that is performative, interdisciplinary, and identity-based.
Ensure a form of continuity in each artist’s creative process by introducing new methodologies and defining new directions for work to be pursued during and after the program.
Content
This training, based on gradual and personalized learning, includes practical exercises, role-playing, individual work sessions, dynamic feedback, and experimentation with the conception, structuring, and presentation of performative actions with an interdisciplinary approach. There will also be individual coaching sessions conducted in front of the group.
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Biography
In performance art since 1978, Sylvie Tourangeau (she/her) (artist, author, workshop facilitator and curator) is considered a pioneer of performance art in Canada. Performative actions, relational art and rituals of circumstance are all practices in which she is involved. She has published books and over sixty articles on a significant array of performers. In 2017, she published Le 7e Sens, a bilingual book about performativity with the TouVa Collective. Since 1995, she has developed several venues and contexts for artist residencies. She has expertise in individual and collective coaching for practitioners who contribute to the expansion of the performing arts and is a lecturer at the Université de Sherbrooke.
“I’m happy to revisit Sylvie’s workshop again. Her guidance allow me to dive deeper into my creation journey. Also her teaching allows me to be sincere and present with my intention.”
— Charoo
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.
