Chrysalis Theatre's 2007/2008 Season

Longest Night presenting chrysalis theatre
December 21st & 22nd, 2007
@ The Yukon Arts Centre
Whitehorse Yukon

“…Marquardt has the most amazing, lanky physical presence…she’s vaguely hypnotic” - Alan Hindle, Terminal City

this cage is a rickety bridge
performed by Tanya Marquardt
music by Jesse Zubot
dramaturgy by Caroline Liffmann

Georgina
written, directed & performed by Tanya Marquardt

chrysalis theatre’s Tanya Marquardt is hosted as the Special Guest along with musician Jesse Zubot for Longest Night, Yukon’s magical night of music, theatre, dance and storytelling. this cage is a rickety bridge marks the collaboration of Zubot and Marquardt, performing a new dance work commissioned for Longest Night. Georgina is an original monologue performed by creator Tanya Marquardt. The confession of a woman who desperately wants to share a secret but doesn’t know how, Georgina is an attempt to create intimacy in a room full of strangers. Enjoy vibrant original stories told through dance, film and traditional storytelling combined with the music of the Longest Night Ensemble.

For more information on Longest Night check out their website www.longestnight.ca



Genie















“a rare visual experience that leaves its audience breathless” – NOW Magazine Edmonton

a chrysalis theatre / VIVO Media Arts co-production
created and performed by Emma Hendrix and Tanya Marquardt

January 2008 dates and times TBA
Secret location

Created by performer Tanya Marquardt and sound artist Emma Hendrix, Genie is sourced in the true-life story of a feral child who was discovered after being locked in solitary confinement for over 10 years. Case studies and research of feral children were used as a starting point to examining human isolation – and specifically the feeling of being confined in urban daily life. As we walk from our apartments to our offices, down concrete sidewalks and timed cross walks, can we find space, freedom and human intimacy within the urban sprawl? Genie fuses performance, installation and experimental audio in the hopes of creating a wake up call for our audience – the pedestrians of Downtown Vancouver.

Visit this site for updates regarding locations for Genie, and how to experience the performance/installation. For further information on VIVO Media Arts check out their website at www.vivomediaarts.ca



Lounge

"quietly vunerable....it's hypnotizing." Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight

"Tanya Marquardt. Remember that name. She's going to be a star." - Jo Ledingham, The Vancouver Courier












a pivot festival / chrysalis theatre production

written by Tanya Marquardt
directed by Ilena Lee Cramer
dramaturgy by Kris Nelson
performed by Joel DeStefano & Tanya Marquardt
January 24 - 26, 2008
Whitehorse, Yukon
Venue TBA

Part lounge act, part David Lynch film - Lounge follows a lonely lesbian lounge singer's search for home and true love on her last Canadian tour. Interweaving story and song, she takes her audience from a childhood in small town Canada to singing lounge in Las Vegas and a love affair with a showgirl. Featuring lounge re-makes of songs from Queen, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Billy Holiday and PJ Harvey, Lounge is a celebration of the lounge genre - a nod to the past and a toast to battles both won and lost.

Lounge is presented in association with the Pivot Festival, so come and share a drink with us! chrysalis theatre gratefully acknowledges the support of the City of Vancouver - Office of Cultural Affairs and the Government of British Columbia.

For more information on The Pivot Festival or nakai theatre check out their website at www.nakaitheatre.com


IN DEVELOPMENT

The Orestia Project (working title)






















Conceived by Tanya Marquardt
Created by David Bloom, Tanya Marquardt, Deanna Peters and Heidi Taylor
Workshop in March 2008 in association with Playwrights Theatre Centre, Vancouver

An elegant man in a suit sits smoking. Responding to questions only he
can hear,he reveals a web of moral ambiguity and desperate decisions.
A haunting, a confession,a greek tragedy, The Orestia Project explores a moment of choice, and its unanticipated repercussions. Drawing from Euripides’ Orestes, Charles L. Mee’s Orestes, David Lynch’s Dune, photographer Diane Arbus, Machiavelli’s The Prince, and the original Star Wars Trilogy, Marquardt weaves a thoroughly contemporary scenario of war and family, exploring the epic through the lens of an intimate sibling relationship. Performed by actor/creators David Bloom and Deanna Peters, directed by Tanya Marquardt, with dramaturgy by Heidi Taylor for chrysalis theatre’s 2008/2009 Season.


Georgina
















written by Tanya Marquardt

“People don’t change. They just find better ways to hide themselves….” - Quote from Georgina.

Georgina is a one-woman show performed for a one-person audience. A confession from a woman who desperately wants to share a secret with a stranger but doesn’t know how, Georgina takes place in one of the few private places left – the women's washroom.

Produced at The Firehall’s BC Buds as well as in December 2007 at Longest Night in Whitehorse, YK, Georgina will be workshopped through improvised sessions taking place randomly and periodically in and around the washrooms of Vancouver. One on one improvised sessions with the performer will help create a full length piece to be performed for chrysalis theatre's 2008 – 2009 Season.


mal de mer (sea sickness)





















created & performed by Susan Elliott and Tanya Marquardt
July 2008
Dates and Times TBA
New York City, USA

Susan Elliott, dancer and Artistic Director of Anatomica (Vancouver) pairs with Tanya Marquardt to create mal de mer, the working title of a new duet. During the initial creation period of mal de mer, both dancers had recently spent time at sea but then experienced motion sickness in the studio. Susan and Tanya decided to use their sea legs in order to create a duet – a dance that dives into the physicality of being unsteady, off balance and slightly askew in an attempt to figure out their shared love of the sea, even if sometimes it just made them sick to the stomach.

mal de mer will be further developed in New York City in the summer of 2008 and is made possible through the support of the BC Arts Council.


Special Events

the re-naming party
February 2008
dates and location TBA

Think back…think way back to 2003..a young girl named Tanya Marquardt producing her first show desperately in need of a name, any name for her new theatre company. A panic, a heart palpitation, a name, yes…I’ll call it…chrysalis theatre????

Help chrysalis theatre come up with a new name and have some drinks too. Hosted by Artistic Director Tanya Marquardt, the re-naming party will begin with a short power-point presentation on the company and its aims. A party will begin. Wine will flow, and hopefully so will ideas. If anyone has an idea they will be directed to a suggestion box with a pencil and paper.

PLEASE HELP ME!

Stay tuned to this blog for location.