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Coming Up at The Theatre Centre:

FREE FALL - performance without a net
Jan 26th–Feb5th, 2006

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The Theatre Centre presents

FREE FALL
a national festival of experimental performance
curators
Franco Boni, David Duclos, Stephen O’Connell, Lisa Pijuan-Nomura

SEVEN COMPANIES FROM ACROSS CANADA

RECTO-VERSO (Quebec City)  EMERGENCY EXIT (Toronto)
ATSA (Montreal)  HAIRCUT (Toronto)   BOCA DEL LUPO (Vancouver)
MELODEON (Toronto)  2b THEATRE (Halifax)

Also featuring RED a showcase of local interdisciplinary talent

Festival Mainstage: The Theatre Centre (1087 Queen St. West)
Festival Offsites: The Lennox Gallery, Lula Lounge, It’s Not A Deli

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Free Fall is designed to celebrate innovation by bringing together groups of artists who not only challenge conventional notions of theatrical presentation, but have also adopted new and original approaches to the
creative process.

What these artists have in common is a predilection for risk and a healthy aversion to convention. In many
respects this event serves to highlight some of the various regional responses to a shifting performance paradigm.
While a few have chosen to remain within the theatrical frame, others have left the stage to inhabit the public space. Arriving at the same juncture from different disciplines (dance, theatre, music or film) all of these artists
embrace a hybrid vocabulary.

Join us for the 3rd bi-annual FREE FALL which features seven new works, and numerous ancillary events,
over the course of 11 days. Yes, the hub of the festival is The Theatre Centre, but check your festival schedule to
make sure you don’t miss some of our great offsite presentations, such as Emergency Exit’s trilogie at the Lennox
Gallery and Lisa Pijuan-Nomura’s Red at the Lula Lounge. We invite you to spend time before or after the shows, to
meet the artists at one of the festival parties or join us on Sunday for a Breakfast Chat with the artists.

Box Office (416) 538-0988
Tickets can also be purchased online through TO TIX at www.totix.ca
$20 regular, $15 artist, $10 student rush seating
$40 festival pass

FREE FALL SCHEDULE (subject to change)

Thursday January 26
HAIRCUT (Toronto) – TC Studio @ 6:30pm --- OPENING
RECTO-VERSO (Quebec City) – TC @ 8pm -- OPENING
OPENING NIGHT PARTY @ 10pm

Friday January 27
HAIRCUT (Toronto) – TC Studio @ 6:30pm (doors open)
RECTO-VERSO (Quebec City) – installation - TC @ 2pm -5pm
RECTO-VERSO (Quebec City) – TC @ 8pm
EMERGENCY EXIT (Toronto) – Lennox Gallery @ 9:30pm --- OPENING
HAIRCUT (Toronto) – TC Studio @ 11:00pm (doors open)

Saturday January 28
HAIRCUT (Toronto) – TC Studio @ 6:30pm (doors open)
RECTO-VERSO (Quebec City) – installation - TC @ 2pm -5pm
RECTO-VERSO (Quebec City) – TC @ 8pm --- CLOSING
EMERGENCY EXIT (Toronto) – Lennox Gallery @ 9:30pm

Sunday January 29
Breakfast Series @ 11am – It’s Not A Deli
EMERGENCY EXIT (Toronto) – Lennox Gallery @ 2:30pm
HAIRCUT (Toronto) – TC Studio @ 4:00pm (doors open)

Monday January 30 - OFF

Tuesday January 31
HAIRCUT (Toronto) – TC Studio @ 6:30pm (doors open)
2b THEATRE (Halifax) – TC @ 8pm – OPENING (space limited to 28 seats)

Wednesday February 1
2b THEATRE (Halifax) – TC @ 8pm (space limited to 28 seats)
RED (showcase of Toronto artists) - Lula Lounge @ 8:30pm --- ONE NIGHT ONLY
EMERGENCY EXIT (Toronto) – Lennox Gallery @ 9:30pm

Thursday February 2
HAIRCUT (Toronto) – TC Studio @ 6:30pm --- CLOSING
BOCA DEL LUPO (Vancouver) – TC @ 8pm -- OPENING
EMERGENCY EXIT (Toronto) – Lennox Gallery @ 9:30pm

Friday February 3
ATSA – TC @ 4pm --- ONE TIME ONLY (continues at YYZ Artists’ Outlet)
BOCA DEL LUPO (Vancouver) – TC @ 7:00pm
2b THEATRE (Halifax) – TC @ 8:30pm
EMERGENCY EXIT (Toronto) – Lennox Gallery @ 10:00pm

Saturday February 4
BOCA DEL LUPO (Vancouver) – TC @ 7:00pm - CLOSING
2b THEATRE (Halifax) – TC @ 8:30pm – CLOSING (space limited to 28 seats)
EMERGENCY EXIT (Toronto) – Lennox Gallery @ 10:00pm

Sunday February 5
EMERGENCY EXIT (Toronto) – Lennox Gallery @ 4:30pm – CLOSING
MELODEON (Toronto) – TC @ 8pm – ONE NIGHT ONLY

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Free Fall 2006 Core Programming
Revisited by 2b THEATRE (Halifax)
created by Christian Barry, Steven McCarthy and Michelle Monteith
conceived and directed by Christian Barry
"Now there are some things we all know but we don't take them out and look at them very often. We all know that something is eternal." - an American Poet

Revisited is an exploration of the divinity inherent in the trivial, and the eternity inherent in communion. It was originally created at the National Theatre School of Canada in 2005.

The Theatre Centre
Tuesday Jan. 31 @ 8pm
Wednesday Feb. 1 @ 8pm
Friday Feb. 3 @ 8:30pm
Saturday Feb. 4 @ 8:30pm
Single Tickets: $20 reg. / $15 artists / $10 student rush seating

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ATTACK #12 by Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable (Montreal)
Pierre Allard and Annie Roy
After a successful tour of Attack #8 to Toronto’s Yonge and Dundas Square, ATSA returns with Attack #12. Annie Roy and Pierre Allard begin by talking about their experience on tour with the controversial installation, followed by an “attack” that will require your participation.
ATSA is an organism founded in 1997 by artists Pierre Allard and Annie Roy to create so-called urban interventions: installations, performances and realistic stagings bearing witness to the various social and environmental aberrations which preoccupy the two artists. Their works investigate and transform the urban landscape and restore the citizen’s place in the public realm, depicting it as a political space open to discussion and societal debates. ATSA promotes an open, active and responsible vision of artists as citizens contributing to the sustainable development of their society.
ATSA’s approach uses the aestheticism and symbolism of art as tools for effecting social change. It creates works that, through the experiences they offer, provoke thought and bring about action. By grabbing passers-by from their daily worlds and ushering them towards a fiction which strangely resembles reality, the works foster an emotional understanding of the problems at hand and generate positive citizen action. www.atsa.qc.ca
The Theatre Centre
ONE DAY ONLY - Friday Feb. 3 @ 4pm
…audience will be lead to YYZ artists’ outlet by 7pm.

Single Tickets: pay-what-you-can

ATSA will also be presented in the Art + Activism exhibition at YYZ artists’ outlet.
January 14 – February 25, www.yyzartistsoutlet.org

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The Perfectionist by BOCA DEL LUPO (Vancouver)
Creator/Performer - Jay Dodge
Creator/Performer - Sherry J Yoon
Guest Director - Jill Samuels
Composer/Musician - Joelysa Pankanea
Musician - Steve Charles
Animation Artist - Jay White
Lighting Designer - John Webber

The Perfectionist follows the deceptively simple lives of a man and a woman in their hilarious and heartbreaking attempts to hurdle their own impossibly high standards. In this collaboration, mediums collide as the quirky imagery of Yukon animation artist Jay White, the evocative lighting of John Webber, the haunting compositions of Joelysa Pankanea, and the engaging performances of Sherry J Yoon, Jay Dodge and Steve Charles come together under the inventive direction of New York's Jill A. Samuels. www.bocadellupo.com
The Theatre Centre
Thursday Feb. 2 @ 8pm
Friday Feb. 3 @ 7:00pm
Saturday Feb. 4 @ 7:00pm

Single Tickets: $20 reg. / $15 artists / $10 student rush seating

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trilogie by emergency exit (Toronto)
Created and performed by Sean MacMahon and Kevin Rees-Cummings Guest flight attendant – Alexis Butler Operating performance technician - David Duclos
trilogie looks at three primary themes: 21st century futility, the flexible nature of time, & communication failure. All of these themes in the context of the piece address various political, personal and artistic concerns. Under the creation guidelines of the manifesto, (see website) trilogie comprises the three works; I like you (2002), where you are now (2003) and 8:00 (2004). Through emergency exit we are creating a charge between performer and audience, not unlike that energy which exists in a live music forum. Our working aesthetic is a collision of frenzied channel changing, flashing lights, instruction manuals, safety pamphlets, air traffic control panic, signs and regulations, motion and static in time, the universal truth, faulty prescriptions, missed navigations, complications and emergencies of a microscopic and/or telescopic nature. www.emergencyexit.ca
Performance Begins at The Theatre Centre Box Office
Friday Jan. 27 @ 9:30pm
Saturday Jan 28 @ 9:30pm
Sunday Jan. 29 @ 2:30pm
Wednesday Feb. 1 @ 9:30pm
Thursday Feb. 2 @ 9:30pm
Friday Feb 3 @ 10pm
Saturday Feb. 4 @ 10pm
Sunday Feb. 5 @ 4:30pm

Single Tickets: $20 reg. / $15 artists / $10 student rush seating

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Haircut by Katie Kehoe (Toronto)
conceived by Katie Kehoe co-directed by Cathy Gordon and Katie Kehoe sound by Darren Copeland installation by Katie Kehoe performed by Cathy Gordon, Jon McCurley, Bob Jordan and Katie Kehoe
HAIRCUT is an interactive multi-media performance piece/installation. It begins in the past, with the life of a barber and his client and ends in the present where people are invited to perform the roles of barber/hairdresser, client, and photographer.
Through the course of traveling from a past to a present a person’s involvement moves from being that of an observer to a participant. This progression acknowledges our individual ability to create what is the Present, transposing time to come to this: reflection and action.
The Theatre Centre- Studio

Thursday Jan. 26 @ 6:30pm
Friday Jan. 27 @ 6:30pm
Friday Jan. 28 @ 11:00pm
Saturday Jan. 28 @ 6:30pm
Sunday Jan. 29 @ 4:00pm
Tuesday Jan. 31 @ 6:30pm
Wednesday Feb. 1 @ 6:30pm
Thursday Feb. 2 @ 6:30pm

Single Tickets: pay-what-you-can

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by MELODEON (Toronto)
Composed by Andrew Downing
Andrew Downing – double bass
Kevin Turcotte – trumpet.
William Carn – trombone
Kathleen Kajioka – violin
Tania Gill – pump organ, glockenspiel

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a live musical score set to the German silent film (1919) of the same name. www.andrewdowning.com
The Theatre Centre
ONE NIGHT ONLY- Sunday Feb. 5 @ 8pm

Single Tickets: $20 reg. / $15 artists

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Fragments 2 by LES PRODUCTIONS RECTO-VERSO (Quebec City) Fragments_ une installation scénographique created by Caroline Ross. Conceived and created by Caroline Ross ( Performed by Gabriel Gascon ( Space and video design by Eric Gagnon ( Sound design by Emile Morin (, David Michaud ( Costume design – Jennifer Tremblay ( Text – Samuel Beckett (
A scenographic installation built around the dynamic fragmentation of image and sound, Fragments presents a universe where images are enriched through a new means of representation, diametrically opposed to the principles underlying traditional modes of representation.
The soundtrack, an assemblage of poetic compositions reflecting our different perceptions of the world, is inspired by Samuel Beckett's That Time, which is integrated into the work. The text transports us into the world of one man and takes a new look at three different times of his life. This strength of this man, who now lives solely in his head, is to envision possibilities and bury the unbearable present.
Each individual possesses but one version of the 6 billion ways of looking at world. When faced with the unknown, we all have to carefully choose our own view. When faced with the known, we may have to readjust our vision. www.meduse.org/recto-verso
The Theatre Centre
Thursday Jan. 26 @ 8pm
Friday Jan. 27 & 28 from 2pm - 5pm (installation only without performer)
Friday Jan. 27 @ 8pm
Saturday Jan. 28 @ 8pm

Single Tickets: $20 reg. / $15 artists / $10 student rush seating
Installation showing on Friday Jan 27 & 28 from 2pm to 5pm: pay-what-you-can

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BREAKFAST CHAT Have breakfast with Free Fall’s talented artists at Queen Street West’s newest art café, it’s not just a deli that’s for sure!

It’s Not A Deli – 986 Queen St. West
FIRST SUNDAY ONLY
Sunday January 29 @ 11am
Space limited to first 20 emails to info@theatrecentre.org
FREE, but patrons must pay for their own breakfast

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