“Whimsical, charming... CORPUS manages to be poignant as well as delightfully absurd” Ottawa Citizen “A company that is to be saluted for its innovation and charm...” Classical 96 Artistic Director: David Danzon General manager: Isorine Marc 805 Dovercourt Road #300 - Toronto ON M6H 2X4 CANADA [email protected] - www.cor pus.ca “CORPUS fuses biting social commentary and astounding feats of physicality with delightful wit.” Toronto Life “CORPUS soars with imagination...” NOW Magazine Founded in 1997 by Sylvie Bouchard and Artistic Director David Danzon, CORPUS is known for its precise and surrealist humour that combines movement with theatrical imagery. CORPUS' unique and engaging performances are presented in both traditional and unusual locations, for diverse audiences. CORPUS has 10 pieces in its repertoire and has presented over a thousand performances at venues and events across Canada and around the world including the Milk International Children Festival (Toronto), Just for Laughs (Montreal & Toronto), Canada Dance Festival (Ottawa), Dancing On the Edge Festival (Vancouver), Awesome Children Festival (Australia); Singapore Arts Festival; La Fira de teatre de Tarréga (Spain); Festival International de théâtre au Benin (West Africa) and International Straattheaterfestival (Belgium). The company has visited more than 25 countries on four continents and has accomplished in 2011 its 10th international tour. CORPUS' work can also be seen on television and on film. The Bravo!FACT short Peep Show has been programmed in over 40 film festivals around the world and won the Audience Award at Cinedans (Netherlands) in 2004. With Treehouse TV, CORPUS co-created 4-Square, an increasingly popular educational television series for pre-schoolers, reaching 6 million viewers in Canada. Several of CORPUS' productions have been nominated for Dora Mavor Moore awards including Outstanding Choreography for Rendez-vous (2000), Nuit blanche (2002) and Les moutons (2003) and Outstanding Performance for Rendez-vous (2000). In 2002 CORPUS was the recipient of the Prix Hommage for Arts awarded by the Féderation Culturelle Canadienne Française. And in 2001, CORPUS was the gold-medal winner at the IV Games of la francophonie (Street Theatre category). www.corpus.ca CORPUS, droll and deadpan." Toronto Star “Simple, but a strike of genius” Het Volk, Belgium Les moutons Reality Reality meets fantasy in this wordless live installation that recreates a bucolic country scene in a typical urban setting. Travel to a strange & hilarious universe as CORPUS takes you through a carefully studied, surrealistic overview of sheep behaviour. Meet Julie, Marie-louise, Bernadette and César, 3 healthy ewes and a young ram. Routine activities include: shearing, feeding, milking and many more... This truly innovative performance twists reality in surprising ways and takes audience interaction to new heights! "The sheep stare vacantly and irremediably as a truly pastoral poetryemerges..." Meuse, Bar-le-duc, France "It must have taken months of close study to learn how to impersonate sheep so effectively but, when a dog was prompted to bark angrily and audience members even offered nibbles, their success was unquestionable." National Post Technical rider Performance area: 6m x 6m (minimum) Touring Party: 6 people Duration: 30 minutes Set up: 1 hour Creative team Concept and Choreography: David Danzon & Sylvie Bouchard Costumes: Joanne Leblanc Nominated for the 2003 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Choreography More than 300 performances worldwide since 2003 Tarragon Theatre Spring Arts Fair, Toronto Dusk Dances Festival, Toronto, Vancouver Festival de théâtre de rue de Shawinigan, Québec High Performance Rodeo, Calgary Milk International Children Festival, Toronto Fira de teatre, Tarréga, Spain Springfestival, Denmark Kijimuna Festa, Japan Awesome Children Festival, Australia Haifa International Festival for Children's Theatre, Israel Watch This Space (London), United Kingdom Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space Tokyo JAPAN Porec Street Festival - Porec, CROATIA Festival "Les jardins métissés" - Husseren-Wesserling, FRANCE Latitude Festival - Suffolk, U.K. Festival de la Cité - Lausanne, SWITZERLAND Serralves em Festa - Porto, PORTUGAL Fête dans la Ville - Amiens, FRANCE Fusion Festival - Lärz, GERMANY Andersen Festival - Sestri Levante, ITALY ESSEXstreetdiversions - Chelmsford, UK Dublin Fringe Festival – Dublin, Ireland Théâtre de rue - Mers-les-Bains, France Wintercity - Toronto, Canada MUECA Festival - Canary island