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Stéphane Bourgeois. Dancers Robert Glumbek, Carleen Zouboules, Bernard Menay, Greta Hodgkinson.
Artist(s)
Choreographer
Guillaume Côté
Guillaume Côté is a native of Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec. He studied at Canada’s National Ballet School and joined The National Ballet of Canada in 1999. He quickly rose through the ranks and was promoted to Principal Dancer in 2004.
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Stage direction
Robert Lepage
From a very early age, Robert Lepage takes a keen interest in geography, but his growing passion for theatre dictates his choice of career: he enrolls at the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Québec in 1975. After an internship with Alain Knapp in Paris in 1978, he returns to his hometown, where he develops the great artistic versatility for which he is known.
Tony Hauser
Company
Ex Machina
Led by artistic director Robert Lepage, Ex Machina creates, produces and disseminates multidisciplinary artistic works, most often theatrical. The company brings together creators from several fields of activity and offers a broad range of artistic production: original plays written and performed solo or collectively, plays based on existing texts, productions in which various disciplines (dance, music, museology) mingle with theater, operas and multimedia productions featuring a predominantly technological dimension.
Credits
Hamlet, Prince du Danemark
Designed and Directed by Robert Lepage.
Co-designed and Choreographed by Guillaume Côté.
Based on the work of William Shakespeare.
Dance
- HAMLET Guillaume Côté: 13, 15, 16 (evening), 19, 20, 22, 23 (evening); Kealan McLaughlin: 14, 16 (morning), 17 (morning), 21, 23 (morning).
- GERTRUDE Sonia Rodriguez: May 13 - 17; Greta Hodgkinson: May 19 - 23.
- CLAUDIUS Robert Glumbek.
- OPHELIA Carleen Zouboules.
- LAERTES Lukas Malkowski.
- HORATIO Natasha Poon Woo.
- POLONIUS Michel Faigaux.
- ROSENCRANTZ Jake Poloz: 13 - 17; Connor Mitton: 19 - 23.
- GUILDENSTERN Willem Sadler.
Original music John Gzowski.
Lights Simon Rossiter.
Costumes Michael Gianfrancesco, Monika Onoszko.
Co-design of scenography and accessories Vanessa Cadrin.
Creative director Steve Blanchet.
Creative assistant and rehearsal director Anisa Tejpar.
Assistant director Félix Dagenais.
Production manager Nadia Bellefeuille.
Technical Director Antoine Caron.
TECHNICAL TEAM
Stage manager Félix Dagenais.
Sound and video manager Stanislas Elie.
Lighting director Billy Bergeron.
Head stagehand Anne Marie Bureau.
Costume and accessories Jeanne Lapierre.
PRODUCTION
Produced by Ex Machina/Côté Danse/Dvoretsky Productions.
In coproduction with « Marin Sorescu » National Theatre and Shakespeare Foundation (Craiova, Romania), Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur, Ville d'Alma Spectacles, Danse Danse (Montreal), Straz Center (Tampa), Le Diamant (Quebec City), Cape Fear Community College (Wilmington), Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts (Vienna), Western Carolina University (Cullowhee), Indiana University Auditorium (Bloomington), Lied Center for Performing Arts (Lincoln), Baku International Arts Festival, Maison des arts de Créteil.
Developed in collaboration withthe National Creation Fund at Canada's National Arts Centre.
This production was developed with the support of TO Live.
Producer - Ex Machina Stéphane Mongeau.
Producer - Côté Danse Etienne Lavigne.
Founding Executive Producer - Côté Danse Emmanuelle Gattuso.
Producer - Dvoretsky Productions Svetlana Dvoretsky.
Associate Production, Europe, Japan Epidemic (Richard Castelli assisted by Florence Berthaud).
Associate Production, Americas, Asia (except Japan), Australia, New Zealand Menno Plukker Theatre Agent (Menno Plukker, assisted by Magdalena Marszalek and Isaïe Richard ).
Associate Production, USA IMG Artists - Matthew Bledsoe.
Photo © Bruce Zinger.
Photo Roman Boldyrev. Danseurs Guillaume Côté, Lukas Malkowski.
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