BURCU EMEÇ
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Burcu is practicing care, political action and rigorous curiosity. She makes performances, writes, directs and organizes. Her approach blends social commentary, active listening, improvisation and visual art, often shifting between the highly poetic and unbearably banal, the sensorial and methodical. Recent research has been focussed on emotional vulnerability, immigrant and diasporic identities, codes of performance and tensions between language and image. She is also a cultural worker, and a coordinator at the artist-run centre articule in Montreal. Burcu's collaborative and independent projects have been presented in a wide range of settings in Montreal, Toronto and Germany; at OFFTA, SummerWorks, MAI (Montreal, arts interculturels), Eastern Bloc, Never Apart, Studio 303, ZH Festival, Institut für Theater und Medienwissenschaft and others. Recent awards include the Mécènes investis pour les arts, OFFTA Coup de coeur, OFFTA Hybridity Award, MainLine Creativity Award, Frankie’s Best English Production nomination and five Montreal English Theatre Awards. |
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CV - SELECTION
ORIGINAL WORK
PERFORMANCE ABOUT OUR CREATIVE RELATIONSHIP (2020)
SORRY NOT SORRY (2019)
ÇA A L'AIR SYNTHÉTIQUE BONJOUR HI (2017)
TLDR;SMH (2017)
PERFORMANCE + THEATRE
SKIN - Leslie Baker (Jan. 2021)
NUMBERS INCREASE AS WE COUNT - Ülfet Sevdi
SHADOW-PRESENCE- Clea Minaker
PLAYS BY DON NIGRO - Liz Valdez
ALICE - Dean Patrick Fleming
SQUIRT - Michael Martini
ATTAWAPISKAT IS NO EXCEPTION - Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer + Floyd Favel
VOICE, FILM, PRODUCTION
NEVER AGAIN - Never Apart - Curator
OUR BODIES, OUR STORIES - Technical Director
REP YOUR FLAG - No Water Studios - Voice
WHO'S AFRAID OF MARGARET ATWOOD? - Third Space Theatre - Stage Manager
RESIDENCIES + DEVELOPMENT
Curator in residence w/ Christopher Willes - Studio 303 (2020-21)
Interdisciplinary Writers' Lab - Playwrights Workshop Montreal (ongoing)
Artist in delegate production - LA SERRE-arts vivants (ongoing)
Conversations on Performance - Festival TransAmériques (2019)
REMIX - Studio 303 (2019)
Artist in punctual support - LA SERRE-arts vivants (2018)
Young Creators' Unit - Playwrights Workshop Montreal (2018)
Vous Êtes Ici / You Are Here - LA SERRE-arts vivants, Théâtre aux Écuries (2017)
CULTURAL WORK + OTHER
Vulnerable Paradoxes - Artistic Committee - PME-ART (2020)
Outreach and Communications Coordinator - articule (ongoing)
Conseil des arts de Montréal - various juries (2019, 2020)
Wah Wah Wah - talkback facilitator (2020)
Artists & arts orgs: Horizontal ways of working - Art Matters Festival - workshop facilitator (2019)
RTW Feminist Theatre & Performance Festival - Jury (2017-2019)
Active listening & peer support certification - Centre for Gender Advocacy (2018)
Guest Artist - Arts Unionville (2018)
GRANTS + AWARDS
Coup de coeur - OFFTA (2020)
Mécènes investis pour les arts & Brigade arts affaires de Montréal (2019)
Creation-Production in New Artistic Practices - Conseil des arts de Montréal, La Chapelle Theatre, RAIQ (2019)
Research and Creation - CALQ (2019)
Grolsch Hybridity Award - OFFTA (2018)
MainLine Creativity Award (2017)
Outstanding Independent Production, Outstanding Emerging Artist, Outstanding Ensemble, Outstanding Set Design
nominations - Montreal English Theatre Awards (2016)
TRAINING
Our Bodies Our Stories - Kama La Mackerel + P10
Stage Combat Basic (Unarmed, Quarter Staff, Small Sword) - Fight Directors of Canada (2017)
Naked Empire Bouffon Company
Bread and Puppet Theater - Vermont
Foreign Affairs Intensive - Berliner Festspiele Theatertreffen (2013)
Institut für Theater und Medienwissenchaft - Friedrich-Alexander Universität
BFA Specialization Theatre Performance, minor Liberal Arts, with Distinction - Concordia University, Montreal (2017)
Viewpoints (Leslie Baker), Clown (Joe de Paul), Puppetry (Clea Minaker), Stage Combat (Jean-Francois Gagnon), Corporal Mime (Denise Boulanger), Biomechanics (Robert Reid), Voice (Noah Drew, Shannon Holmes), Acting (Noah Drew, Harry Standjofski, Robert Reid, Nancy Helms, Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer)
CV - SELECTION
ORIGINAL WORK
PERFORMANCE ABOUT OUR CREATIVE RELATIONSHIP (2020)
SORRY NOT SORRY (2019)
ÇA A L'AIR SYNTHÉTIQUE BONJOUR HI (2017)
TLDR;SMH (2017)
PERFORMANCE + THEATRE
SKIN - Leslie Baker (Jan. 2021)
NUMBERS INCREASE AS WE COUNT - Ülfet Sevdi
SHADOW-PRESENCE- Clea Minaker
PLAYS BY DON NIGRO - Liz Valdez
ALICE - Dean Patrick Fleming
SQUIRT - Michael Martini
ATTAWAPISKAT IS NO EXCEPTION - Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer + Floyd Favel
VOICE, FILM, PRODUCTION
NEVER AGAIN - Never Apart - Curator
OUR BODIES, OUR STORIES - Technical Director
REP YOUR FLAG - No Water Studios - Voice
WHO'S AFRAID OF MARGARET ATWOOD? - Third Space Theatre - Stage Manager
RESIDENCIES + DEVELOPMENT
Curator in residence w/ Christopher Willes - Studio 303 (2020-21)
Interdisciplinary Writers' Lab - Playwrights Workshop Montreal (ongoing)
Artist in delegate production - LA SERRE-arts vivants (ongoing)
Conversations on Performance - Festival TransAmériques (2019)
REMIX - Studio 303 (2019)
Artist in punctual support - LA SERRE-arts vivants (2018)
Young Creators' Unit - Playwrights Workshop Montreal (2018)
Vous Êtes Ici / You Are Here - LA SERRE-arts vivants, Théâtre aux Écuries (2017)
CULTURAL WORK + OTHER
Vulnerable Paradoxes - Artistic Committee - PME-ART (2020)
Outreach and Communications Coordinator - articule (ongoing)
Conseil des arts de Montréal - various juries (2019, 2020)
Wah Wah Wah - talkback facilitator (2020)
Artists & arts orgs: Horizontal ways of working - Art Matters Festival - workshop facilitator (2019)
RTW Feminist Theatre & Performance Festival - Jury (2017-2019)
Active listening & peer support certification - Centre for Gender Advocacy (2018)
Guest Artist - Arts Unionville (2018)
GRANTS + AWARDS
Coup de coeur - OFFTA (2020)
Mécènes investis pour les arts & Brigade arts affaires de Montréal (2019)
Creation-Production in New Artistic Practices - Conseil des arts de Montréal, La Chapelle Theatre, RAIQ (2019)
Research and Creation - CALQ (2019)
Grolsch Hybridity Award - OFFTA (2018)
MainLine Creativity Award (2017)
Outstanding Independent Production, Outstanding Emerging Artist, Outstanding Ensemble, Outstanding Set Design
nominations - Montreal English Theatre Awards (2016)
TRAINING
Our Bodies Our Stories - Kama La Mackerel + P10
Stage Combat Basic (Unarmed, Quarter Staff, Small Sword) - Fight Directors of Canada (2017)
Naked Empire Bouffon Company
Bread and Puppet Theater - Vermont
Foreign Affairs Intensive - Berliner Festspiele Theatertreffen (2013)
Institut für Theater und Medienwissenchaft - Friedrich-Alexander Universität
BFA Specialization Theatre Performance, minor Liberal Arts, with Distinction - Concordia University, Montreal (2017)
Viewpoints (Leslie Baker), Clown (Joe de Paul), Puppetry (Clea Minaker), Stage Combat (Jean-Francois Gagnon), Corporal Mime (Denise Boulanger), Biomechanics (Robert Reid), Voice (Noah Drew, Shannon Holmes), Acting (Noah Drew, Harry Standjofski, Robert Reid, Nancy Helms, Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer)
