Burcu Emeç
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Burcu is practicing care, political action and rigorous curiosity. As a performance maker her approach blends social commentary, improvisation and visual art. Her work lives in the shifts between the highly poetic and the banal, subverting codes of live performance and creating tensions between language and image. Burcu comes to performance from a background in theatre and photography, and has experience both as an actor and director. She is currently training as an Intimacy Coordinator (film) and Intimacy Director (theatre). She brings to it training in harm-reductive active listening, bystander intervention, anti-oppression and facilitation. Burcu’s collaborative and independent artistic projects have been presented in a wide range of settings in Montreal, Toronto and Germany, including festivals OFFTA, SummerWorks and ZH, and venues such as Eastern Bloc, Never Apart, Studio 303 and Montreal arts interculturels (MAI). Recent accolades include the Mécènes investis pour les arts, OFFTA Coup de coeur, OFFTA Hybridity Award and five Montreal English Theatre Award nominations. She is curator-in-residence with Christopher Willes at Studio 303 and artist in delegate production with LA SERRE-arts vivants. Burcu is also a cultural worker with wide-ranging experience in programming, project management, outreach and public programs, communications and arts advocacy. She is currently Outreach Coordinator at the artist-run centre articule. She is based in Montreal. |
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CV - Selection
Original Work
We were awkward at first, but then it was ok (2020)
Sorry not sorry (2019)
Ça a l'air synthétique bonjour hi (2017)
tldr;smh (2017)
confiteor vol ii (2016 - as obra anaïs performance ensemble)
confiteor vol i (2015 - as obra anaïs performance ensemble)
Theatre
SKIN - Leslie Baker (January 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 - Floyd Favel Starr & Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer
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 with Christopher Willes - Studio 303 (2020-2021)
Alliance - MAI - Montréal, arts interculturels (2020-present)
Résidences artistiques nomadiques - LA SERRe-arts vivants (2020-present)
Interdisciplinary Writers' Lab - Playwrights Workshop Montreal (2019-present)
Artist in delegate production - LA SERRE-arts vivants (2019-present)
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 & Programming
articule - Outreach & Communications Coordinator (2018-present; Outreach Coordinator only 2020 onwards)
Vulnerable Paradoxes - Artistic Committee - PME-ART (2019-present)
Vulnerable Paradoxes - Publication Project Coordinator - PME-ART (2020-present)
Conseil des arts de Montréal - various juries (2019, 2020)
Wah Wah Wah - talkback facilitator (2020)
Horizontal ways of working - Art Matters Festival - workshop facilitator (2019)
RTW Feminist Theatre & Performance Festival - jury (2017-2019)
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
Bystander Intervention - PLURI (2019)
Our Bodies Our Stories - Kama La Mackerel & P10
Stage Combat Basic (Unarmed, Quarter Staff, Small Sword) - Fight Directors of Canada (2017)
Active Listening - Centre for Gender Advocacy (2018)
Naked Empire Bouffon Company
Bread and Puppet Theater
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
We were awkward at first, but then it was ok (2020)
Sorry not sorry (2019)
Ça a l'air synthétique bonjour hi (2017)
tldr;smh (2017)
confiteor vol ii (2016 - as obra anaïs performance ensemble)
confiteor vol i (2015 - as obra anaïs performance ensemble)
Theatre
SKIN - Leslie Baker (January 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 - Floyd Favel Starr & Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer
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 with Christopher Willes - Studio 303 (2020-2021)
Alliance - MAI - Montréal, arts interculturels (2020-present)
Résidences artistiques nomadiques - LA SERRe-arts vivants (2020-present)
Interdisciplinary Writers' Lab - Playwrights Workshop Montreal (2019-present)
Artist in delegate production - LA SERRE-arts vivants (2019-present)
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 & Programming
articule - Outreach & Communications Coordinator (2018-present; Outreach Coordinator only 2020 onwards)
Vulnerable Paradoxes - Artistic Committee - PME-ART (2019-present)
Vulnerable Paradoxes - Publication Project Coordinator - PME-ART (2020-present)
Conseil des arts de Montréal - various juries (2019, 2020)
Wah Wah Wah - talkback facilitator (2020)
Horizontal ways of working - Art Matters Festival - workshop facilitator (2019)
RTW Feminist Theatre & Performance Festival - jury (2017-2019)
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
Bystander Intervention - PLURI (2019)
Our Bodies Our Stories - Kama La Mackerel & P10
Stage Combat Basic (Unarmed, Quarter Staff, Small Sword) - Fight Directors of Canada (2017)
Active Listening - Centre for Gender Advocacy (2018)
Naked Empire Bouffon Company
Bread and Puppet Theater
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)
