Chrysalis Theatre

Chrysalis Theatre's 2007/2008 Season

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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.

Lounge Wins The Sydney Risk Prize for Outstanding Original Play at the Jessies!!!

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Chrysalis and Screaming Weenie were honoured at the Jessie Awards Monday June 18th, 2007 when Tanya Marquardt, playwright and Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre won The Sydney Risk Prize for Outstanding Original Play by an Emerging Playwright for Lounge, which was co-produced in September 2006 at Mynt Restaurant & Lounge. The cash prize will go to support Tanya over the next two months as she is currently writing two new plays for the 2007/2008 Season.

Thank you to everyone who made Lounge possible!

Lounge Nominated for a Jessie!

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Chrysalis Theatre and Screaming Weenie Productions are proud to announce that Joel DeStefano has been nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award in the category of Outstanding Original Composition for Lounge!

If any of you are in the mood, come down to the awards ceremony and celebrate with us.

The Jessies’ 25th Anniversary celebration will be held on Monday, June 18th at the Commodore Ballroom, 868 Granville Street beginning at 6:45pm. Doors open at 5:30pm, dinner is available.Tickets are $23.50 available at Ticketmaster at 604-280-3311, online at http://www.ticketmaster.ca/ or in person at the Arts Club Theatre Company Box Office at 1585 Johnson St. on Granville Island.

Hope to see you there!

Come see Georgina at BC Buds, May 17th & 18th at the Firehall Arts Centre

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Chrysalis Theatre presents

Georgina
written by Tanya Marquardt
performed by Georgina Beatty
directed by Ilena Lee Cramer

@ BC Buds : An Arts Fair
Friday May 18th 10:30pm
Saturday May 19th 10:15pm
Firehall Arts Centre
280 East Cordova Street
Seating is Limited!!

“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 confessional play about 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 woman’s washroom. Written and directed by Tanya Marquardt, Georgina is performed by Georgina Beatty directed by Ilena Lee Cramer and produced by Chrysalis Theatre in conjunction with the Firehall Arts Centre Festival BC Buds.

“rare visual experiences that leave its audience breathless”
- See Magazine, Edmonton

Founded in 2001 by Tanya Marquardt, Chrysalis Theatre is dedicated to creating, producing and touring original theatre and dance works. Fueled by the crossroads of theatre, performance art and dance, Chrysalis Theatre has explored found text, clowning, gender bending, noise music, and site-specific performance, resulting in five full length pieces.

Seating is extremley limited and the show is full of secrets. Come down to BC Buds and share a secret with us as well as take a sneak peek into the workings of Chrysalis Theatre's new work.

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Out in the Great White North

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Hi Folks,

I'm up up and away in the Great White North to do some networking and perform in Nakai Theatre's production of Mitch Miyagawa's play Carnival. Check out my blog if you want to see updates on my trip!

www.tanyaswhitehorse.blogspot.com

Go and see Chrysalis' play in development Georgina as it will be staged at a reading for the solo collective's solo flights April 15th at Performance Works on Granville Island at 8pm. Any feedback you have send my way as I'll be here rehearsing. Look to this blog for more updates as Georgina develops.

Much Love, see you in July.

Upcoming Show: Lounge re-mounted at the Sista'Hood Festival

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Chrysalis Theatre & Screaming Weenie Productions in partnership with Sista' Hood present

Lounge
Written and performed by Tanya Marquardt
Music and arrangement by Joel DeStefano
Dramaturgy by Kris Nelson
Thursday March 15, 2007 at 9pm
Rime, 1130 Commercial Drive
Tickets $10 at the Door only

"quietly vunerable....it's hypnotizing. Marquardt presents the chanteuse with a combination of pain and girlish cover-up; the performers considerable beauty helps to make this intriguing." - Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight

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

"This play will seduce you..." - Rob Salerno, Xtra West

"Tanya Marquardt's one woman show about an unnamed singer just stopping in town for a gig has all the hallmarks of a gin-soaked, down-and-out lounge act...one of the more physically striking young actresses in town." - Michael Harris, The Globe and Mail

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. Both humorous and poignant Lounge features the lounge re-makings 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.

Featuring some of Vancouver's hottest young artists, including Tanya Marquardt (Chrysalis Theatre) Joel DeStefano (Nocturne) Kris Nelson (Rumble - Artist in residence) and direction by Weenie's own Ilena Lee Cramer, this remount of the critically acclaimed Lounge is presented in association with Sista'Hood, so come and share a drink with us! Screaming Weenie and Chrysalis theatre gratefully acknowledge the support of the City of Vancouver - Office of Cultural Affairs and the Government of British Columbia.

Production Pictures from Genie

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Genie
by Tanya Marquardt & Emma Hendrix
Performed at the Vancouver International Dance Festival
March 21 - 22nd, 2006

These Production Photos are taken courtesay of Chris Randle.

A Big thanks to Theatre Replacement. VIDF, Video In and Kokoro Dance for all your help in Making Genie a reality.

Look to this blog for further information on our 2007 re-mount at a Secret Location TBA.

Tanya Marquardt
Artistic Director
Chrysalis Theatre

Chrysalis Residency at Mascall Dance

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November 29 - 30th, Chrysalis Theatre had the pleasure of developing our new dance piece, Memento during a residency with Mascall Dance in Vancouver.

Memento is the dance of the memory of a touch and how that touch effects the human body long after it is gone. I used Contact dance techniques as well as Grotowski based physical theatre and Butoh to create the movement, and am looking to perform the piece as a solo this year as a way of dramaturging the form of the piece, as well as testing it on an audience.

See more pictures of the residency below.

Look to this blog for upcoming performances of Memento as well as The Orestia Project, our upcoming theatre piece for Chrysalis Theatre's 2007/2008 Season!

Tanya Marquardt
Artistic Director
Chrysalis Theatre

All Photos Taken By Barnaby Killam
November 29th, 2006 @ Mascall Dance Studio
Vancouver BC

Critics Praise for LOUNGE

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Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight

"quietly vunerable....it's hypnotizing. Marquardt presents the chanteuse with a combination of pain and girlish cover-up; the performers considerable beauty helps to make this intriguing."

Jo Ledingham, The Vancouver Courier

"Tanya Marquardt. Remember that name. She's going to be a star."

Rob Salerno, Xtra West

"This play will seduce you..."

Michael Harris, The Globe and Mail

" Tanya Marquardt's one woman show about an unnamed singer just stopping in town for a gig has all the hallmarks of a gin-soaked, down-and-out lounge act...one of the more physically striking young actresses in town."

Production Pictures from LOUNGE

2006-08-21T16:31:00.000-07:00

The Singer Makes an Promise
Performer Tanya Marquardt

A Coy Moment
Performer Tanya Marquardt

"Who Me?"
Performer Tanya Marquardt

The Singer Looks into Your Eyes
Performers Tanya Marquardt & Joel DeStefano

A Candid Moment
Performers Tanya Marquardt & Joel DeStefano

All Photos of Lounge taken by Byron Dauncy
Photographed Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
@ Mynt Restaurant & Lounge
555 Davie Street, Vancouver BC

Upcoming Production: LOUNGE

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Screaming Weenie Productions & Chrysalis Theatre present

Lounge

Written and performed by Tanya Marquardt
Music and arrangement by Joel DeStefano
Stage Direction by Ilena Lee Cramer
Dramaturgy by Kris Nelson
Production Stage Management by Jason Leane

July 25 – August 12, 2006
8pm Tuesday – Saturday
Mynt Lounge & Restaurant
555 Davie Street

Tickets $10 Advance, $12 at the Door
Tickets on sale July 1^st at Little Sisters Bookstore & at www.screamingweenie.com
More info at www.chrysalistheatre.blogspot.com

“What are your dreams tonight? As I look out there into a sea of open faces and broken hearts I wonder if all we’re doing is living in a world of shattered dreams. And if this is true and we’re living in a world of shattered dreams, maybe you’ll have nightmares. But maybe those nightmares will lead you…back home” - Lounge

“…a rare, visual experience that leaves its audience breathless…” See Magazine

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. Both humorous and poignant Lounge features the lounge re-makings of songs from Queen, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Billy Holiday and PJ Harvey.

“Marquardt is a brave writer and performer…the playwright speaks of the masks we wear and how they obstruct our desire for authenticity…fearless and conceptually challenging.” – Jo Ledingham, The Vancouver Courier

Lounge is a celebration of the lounge genre – a nod to the past and a toast to battles both won and lost. Featuring some of Vancouver's hottest young artists, including Tanya Marquardt (Chrysalis Theatre) Joel DeStefano (Nocturne) Kris Nelson (Rumble – Artist in residence) and direction by Weenie’s own Ilena Lee Cramer, Lounge premieres in association with Vancouver’s Gay Pride Week, so come and share a drink with us!

“Screaming Weenie have a skenographia of beautiful, multilayered images… performed to a young and utterly appreciative audience.” Alan Hindle – Terminal City

Photo Courtesay of Peter Eastwood

Welcome to the Official Chrysalis Blog

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Welcome to the Chrysalis Theatre blog, the offical site for show updates, and sneak peaks into the Chrysalis process.

The 2005/2006 Season was the busiest yet! Genie, a solo dance piece about feral children, was presented at the Vancouver International Dance Festival on March 21st and 22nd to sold out houses. Thanks to Kokoro Dance, and to Video In for making us one of their artists - in- residence for 2006/2007. Stay tuned as Emma Hendrix,(sound artist) and Artistic Director Tanya Marquardt use the residency to make Genie into a full length dance.

Closing our season will be Lounge, a new site-specific musicial set in a lounge bar (Venue TBA). A Co-Production with Screaming Weenie Productions (Ilena Lee Cramer), Lounge features some of Vancouver's hottest young artists, including Tanya Marquardt (Chrysalis Theatre) and Joel DeStefano (Nocturne) as the lounge singer as her musician, along with dramaturgy by Kris Nelson and direction by Ilena Lee Cramer. Following one lesbian lounge singer’s search for home and true love during her last Canadian tour, Lounge features the croonings and lounge re-makings of songs from Queen, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Billy Holiday and PJ Harvey. The play will have its premiere in August 2006 as part of Vancouver’s Gay Pride celebration, so come and share a drink with us!

Chrysalis Theatre's 2006/2007 Season will be revealed in late August and so far is shaping up to be another amazing year. Until August I keep you waiting in anticipation....

As this blog develops visit us for regular updates. Posts will be appearing, on what we do, what our history is and what's upcoming. If you like what we do, please tell your friends. If you want to volunteer send us an email. Your comments play a vital part in the development of Chrysalis Theatre. Please send your responses on this blog, our process, or our shows. We want to hear from you!

Tanya Marquardt
Artistic Director
Chrysalis Theatre

photo courtesay of Peter Eastwood