“✨IWULD is a performance-making platform by and for femmes & women of colour, prioritizing QTBIPOCs+, to dig into healing while enabling dialogue.✨”
© 2020 Anne-Audrey Remarais
no walls within
This 2-day-weekend intensive workshop’s objective was to enable the breaking of walls we hold between ''me, myself, and I'', inspired by theatre exercises and Theatre of the Oppressed games to create short performances collectively.
The first workshop explored character development based on participants’ own story where vulnerability was challenged by outside forces. The second workshop’s focus was on exploring how vulnerability - its meanings, blocks, and hopes - feels in the body; embodied listening and communication; bridging words with movements; creating collaborative performances; and mostly...embracing processes!
© 2020 Anne-Audrey Remarais
Dialogue with the self
A performance-making workshop using a text-weaving technique to guide participants in writing a letter to themselves, using their own voice as well as inspiration from BIPOC authors, and to perform it in an intimate setting. What are you holding back? What do you need to say? What do you need to hear? An empowering evening of tangible self-care; exploring the power of words, using them as a tool for accountability in speaking kindly to ourselves, and performing them for each other.
© 2019 Jessica Slipp
my voice as thread
This was a performance-making workshop using a a text weaving technique focuses on process as a continuous action of reality-making. BIPOC’s narratives around our experience are often denied, erased, brushed off and countered with "data, records, documentation’’ upheld by white western narratives. This workshop aims to shift the focus by centering BIPOC voices, bringing the invisible (thoughts, healing, experience, feelings, ancestral knowledge) forward while highlighting its importance and power. A mix of writing, performance sharing and discussion.
© 2018 Philippe Teixcyr
YUNI - U & I
Yuni - U & I, is an interdisciplinary performance using theatre, media, and movement to tell stories of two queer femmes of color, Sina and Oma, who represent parts of us. The performance follows them both on a self-discovery journey. A collective creation, from Sam Nyinawumuntu and myself, where the process of creation allowed space for our stories to come to the surface. What emerged was how we ran away from ourselves, meaning the various parts that make us who we are, including the anxieties, passions, drive, migration journey, hold of ancestors, trauma-patterns and laughter. It enabled us to see and look at them, as well as to learn to accept their presence. The piece is a healing process, emphasis on process as it is a continual work-in-progress.
My roles included: dramaturge, performance-making workshops design and facilitation, co-creator, director, performer.