bios
Émilie Monnet
At the intersection of theatre, performance and sound art, Émilie Monnet’s art practice is founded on collaborative processes of creation presented as interdisciplinary theatre or immersive performance experiences. She is current artist-in-residence at Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui in Montreal and upcoming at théâtre Espace Go. Her work was programmed at Festival TransAmériques and the National Arts Centre. She frequently collaborates with artists in South America. In 2016, she founded Indigenous Contemporary Scene (ICS), a nomadic platform for the presentation of live arts by & creative exchanges for Indigenous artists. Both Anishnaabe/Algonquin and French, she is now living in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyaang / Montréal, and is the artistic director of Onishka Productions.
Floyd P. Favel
Mr. Favel is a theatre theorist, director, essayist, based in Saskatchewan. He studied theatre in Denmark at the Tukak Teatret, a school for Inuit and Sami People and in Italy with Jerzy Grotowski. He is the curator of the Chief Poundmaker Museum (winner of the 2018 Indigenous Tourism Award). Since 2018 he is the director of the Poundmaker Indigenous Performance Festival, a global Indigenous festival that is multi-cultural in presentation. The premise of the festival is that Indigenous theatre is an artistic genre that is open to all People and not defined by ‘colonial identities’. In 2020 he won the Saskatchewan Multi-cultural Leadership Award for his work.
Jen Cressey
Jen Cressey (M.A. Individualized Program, Concordia University) is a theatre artist, teacher, and practice-based researcher living in Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal. She directs, devises, and co-creates site-responsive performance. Her recent works include The Streets segment in Dwellings, which traversed a campus basement, the little life of we, a roving performance for Nuit Blanche, and Keeper, an intimate duet about the weight of memory. Jen’s research uses theatre actor training exercises as methods to attune attention and perception towards somatic engagement with sites, to move and commune with, to reify, and to disrupt them. She is currently interested in ecological approaches to performance creation.
Kahente Horn-Miller
Dr. Kahente Horn-Miller (Kahente means “she walks ahead”) (Kanien:keha’ka/Mohawk), mother to four daughters and grandmother, is Associate Professor in the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University and Assistant Vice-President, Indigenous Initiatives. As an active member of her community, Dr. Horn-Miller is a figurative bridge builder as she engages with issues that are relevant to her work and academic interests such as Indigenous methodologies, Indigenous women, identity politics, colonization, Indigenous governance, and consensus-based decision making. Her governance work and community-based research involves interpreting Haudenosaunee culture and bringing new life to old traditions.
Skawennati
Skawennati makes art that addresses history, the future, and change from her perspective as an urban Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) woman and as a cyberpunk avatar. Her early adoption of cyberspace as both a location and a medium for her practice has produced groundbreaking projects such as CyberPowWow and TimeTraveller™. She is best known for her machinimas—movies made in virtual environments—but also produces still images, textiles and sculpture. Her works have been presented in Europe, Oceania, China and across North America. Born in Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory, Skawennati belongs to the Turtle clan. She holds a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, where she resides.
Ulla Neuerburg
Ulla Neuerburg, PhD, born and raised in Cologne, Germany, is Associate Professor of Theatre at Concordia University. In her research and practice she attempts to connect her commitment to ecology, de-colonization, history, and feminism with her work in somatic engagement (CATR working group co-hosted with Christine Bellerose), rasaboxes, and the performance of space and place, particularly in the meeting of Indigenous and non-indigenous world views. She co-founded two companies, Theater Zerbrochene Fenster in Berlin, and Richard Schechner’s East Coast Artist, NY, volunteers regularly at the Bread & Puppet Theatre, and has published widely in English and German.