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DOT

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DOT is the story of an ever-evolving spec through the molecular to the galactic.

 

A surrealist and wordless puppet tale

that inhabits all levels of micro and Mega objects,

throughout 2D and 3D worlds.

It is told with manipulated

liquids,

dyes,

tubes,

geometric shapes,

vegetables,

shadow&light,

sticks and bags.

It is an experience that encapsulates the vast shades in our humanity,

from the delightfulness, to the cantankerousness

Viewed from the distance of the stars.

This performance is accompanied by a live-performed sound scape

Ensemble - Kit Benz, Evan Medd, Michael Rolfe​

Maker / Creator - Elaine Weryshko​

Stage Manager - AJ Musters​

Sound - Rebecca Reid & Ryan Bourne​

Lighting Design - AJ Musters​

Consultant - Nikki Emerson

Commissioned as part of the Incubator series with the

Festival of Animated Objects

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WITH SUPPORT FROM

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Presentation History

2023 - Expanse Festival, Edmonton

2023 - Festival of Animated Objects, Calgary

2022 - Festival of Animated Objects (workshop), Calgary

TEAM BIOGRAPHIES

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Elaine Weryshko

Creator/Director

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Michale Rolfe

Puppeteer

Michael is an actor, improviser, and writer based out of Calgary, Alberta, traditionally known as Mohkinstsis. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Performance from the University of Lethbridge and continues to broaden his experience by workshopping new Canadian plays, touring puppet shows, and acting whenever he can. Beyond acting for stage and screen, he spends his time imagining and creating queer narratives that centralize and uplift queer positivity and joy. In his free time, he loves to explore the fantasy worlds of Dungeons and Dragons, read sci-fi and horror books, and rewatch his favourite films.

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Kit Benz is a clown, puppeteer, physical theatre artist, and arts educator based in Moh'kins'tsis on Treaty 7 Territory. They are a graduate of the drama program at Bishop’s University as well as the Professional Training Program at Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. Kit spent several glorious summers training in Pochinko clown at the Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance. Past theatre work includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Shakespeare Company and Hit & Myth), The Mousetrap (Theatre Calgary), The Jungle Book; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (ATP), Yabber: A Musical Junk Tale (Mudfoot Theatre), Iniskim: Return of the Buffalo (Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry), and All I Want for Christmas (Lunchbox Theatre).

Kit Benz

Puppeteer

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Evan Medd

Puppeteer

Evan Medd (he/they) is a dramaturg, theatre-maker, producer, facilitator, and puppeteer who works across Turtle Island. His practice primarily focuses on dramaturgical strategizing of process design, community engaged art that intersects with environmental dialogues, and collaborative new play development and production with the Alberta-based Major Matt Mason Collective, for which they are a Co-Artistic Director. Evan spends his summers working in PEI at The River Clyde Pageant, a community integrated outdoor spectacle that celebrates a social ecology while drawing attention to the impact of climate change on PEI’s waterways and ecosystems, and is currently researching and developing a similar project in Calgary through Mudfoot Theatre called The Bow River Boat Pageant. Evan has also spearheaded an initiative called Dreaming Climate Consciousness, a collaborative process where participants work together to imagine eco-conscious futures through the lens of speculative/science fiction. Evan is passionate about utilizing creative practice as a means to stimulate imaginations while interrogating and examining the tensions that define our world.

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Ryan Bourne & Rebecca Reid 

Musicians

Rebecca Reid and Ryan Bourne are a Calgary/Mohkinstsis-based interdisciplinary artist duo specializing in placemaking, set design, music/sound creation, film, and installation art. Drawing inspiration from Pop, Surrealism, spiritual and outsider art, and esoteric history and practice, their work often employs bold colours and geometries, assemblages of reclaimed materials, and aesthetic nods to the 60’s & 70’s, embracing a sense of play while exploring human experience - love, death, altered states, apocalypse anxiety, and spiritual transcendence. Their current focus includes an ongoing, transmutating body of painting, sculptural and immersive installation work entitled Neon Funeral. Their musical project Hair Control melds performance art, prop, and their own brand of avant-synth-pop in an experience they’ve dubbed the “existential workout”. Ryan is also an active creator/collaborator in YYC’s music community, as a member of Chad VanGaalen & the Bleach Wipes, Ghostkeeper, and his own Plant City Band.

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AJ Musters

Lighting Design & Stage Management

AJ Musters is a professional in both theatre and film in Calgary Alberta. With a history as a stage manager AJ made the transition to fulltime work in the film industry in 2021, now working primarily as a set decorator or dolly grip. Major film credits in the past year include; assistant set decorator (Prank Night), dolly grip (Montana Mavericks), prop builder (Back To The Frontier), technical director (Sugar Mama). AJ also works for the Calgary Underground Film Festival every April for the main festival and November for the documentary mini-festival. As far as theatre is concerned AJ’s most notable recent credits would be stage manager and lighting designer for DOT (2023), and lighting designer for a production of Dracula (2024).

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