Julie Andrée T.
Since graduating from Concordia University with a degree in visual arts, Julie Andrée T. has become an imposing figure in the installation performance milieu, placing the body and space at the very heart of her research. Since 1994 she has exhibited her work and presented her performances in several art centres and annual events in Canada (Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto), the United States (New York, San Francisco) and Europe (Germany, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Hungary, Transylvania, Slovakia). A founding member of the Quebec City artists’ collective Roche-papier-ciseaux, her artistic approach has generated a lot of interest for its formal qualities and poetic impact. In 1998 she presented an installation entitled Zones amères et/ou la mise en page d’un univers clos. Her performances convey maturity and reflection on the art of performance, which she pushes to the limit, and her work has attracted national and international recognition. In addition to solo performances, in the past few years she has pursued research projects with Korper.Technik/Body.Technology at Theatre Der Welt in Berlin and Extention with Xavier Le Roy in Berlin, as well as collaborations with PME and Jacob Wren (participating in En français comme en anglais, It’s easy to criticize, presented as part of Nouvelle Scène in 1999). Working with choreographer Benoît Lachambre, she created the set design for Confort et complaisance, which was presented at the Danse à l’Usine event in 2001. She was also actively involved in the 100 Rencontres installation to be presented in May at the KunstenFestivaldesArts in Belgium. Developed in three phases, Problématique provisoire was created in Montreal, Berlin and Cologne.

With the support of la Société de Développement de Montréal.

Nouvelles Scènes
In 1997, the Festival de théâtre des Amériques created the Nouvelle Scène series, whose mission four editions later remains the same — to promote young artists in order to actively contribute to the emergence of new voices in the theatre by providing them with conditions that favour their discovery and advancement. In bringing together this year a generation of multidisciplinary artists, Nouvelles Scènes 2003 reasserts the dynamism and plurality of contemporary theatre in Quebec. In choosing unusual performance sites and forms that include performance art, theatrical walkabouts and staged installations, these artists challenge the norms of theatrical representation and the role of the spectator, questioning the social and political role of art and its place in the community.