 |
|
 |
|
 |
CONTACT Email: reddressproductions@gmail.com RDP (Red Dress Productions) Blog: http://reddressproductions.blogspot.com RDP is a not-for-profit company founded by Artistic Co-Directors Anna Camilleri and Tristan R. Whiston, with a core mandate of creating and disseminating original performance and community-engaged public artworks.
SweLL performance demo (Co-presented by RDP and Mayworks Festival, Toronto, ON. May 2010)
TOUR DATES: SweLL: So the Story Goes Femme Conference | OAKLAND, CA Verdant: Queer Writers on the Verge | TORONTO, ON Trigger Festival | TORONTO, ON Bent on Writing: The Queer Scribe | TORONTO, ON Swell: So the Story Goes |TORONTO, ON Swell: So the Story Goes|OTTAWA, ON GHENT, BELGIUM ~ Author Reading and Panel Discussion KINGSTON, ON ~ Guest Lecture and Writing Workshop
SweLL is a queer multidiscipline performance troupe founded by Anna Camilleri, Ivan E. Coyote, and Lyndell Montgomery. Swell is the (re)iteration of Taste This, a Vancouver-based performance troupe Taste This that created and toured four stage works in Canada and the US, between 1995 and 2000, and co-authored Boys Like Her: Transfictions to critical and public acclaim. After a nine-year hiatus as collaborators and many book, performance, and recorded works to their individual credit, founding members “cultural agitator and fab femme (NOW)” Anna Camilleri, “natural-born storyteller (Globe and Mail)” Ivan E. Coyote, and “musical genius (Xtra)” Lyndell Montgomery initiated SweLL to create So The Story Goes, for which they are joined by visual artist Leslie Peters.
Looking forward to beginning working with the Triangle Program, Canada’s only high school program for LGBTQ youth in the TDSB (Toronto District School Board). More information about Triangle: http://triangleprogram.ca.
Anna leads writing workshops with high schools students with Young Writers at Edge, a program of the Diaspora Dialogues in conjunction with the Toronto District School Board. More information: http://diasporadialogues.com CANADIAN QUEER LIT COLLECTION AND EXHIBITION! Boys Like Her: Transfictions by Taste This (Anna Camilleri, Ivan E. Coyote, Zoe T. Eakle, and Lyndell Montgomery) and Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity, co-edited by Chloe Brushwood Rose and Anna Camilleri), have been selected for inclusion in the University of Toronto’s Fisher Rare Books Library Queer Canadian Literature Collection and Exhibition—139 titles in total. GENDER PLAY THEATRE PROJECT A group of trans, queer, and gender questioning work collaboratively with director/dramaturge Tristan R. Whiston, writer/performer Anna Camilleri, choreographer/dancer Kathleen Rea, and project coordinator LeeAndra Miller to create an original theatre work based in their exploration of gender identity. Presented by Central Toronto Youth Services, the Gender Play Project has been running annually since 2004, and has mounted four professional productions.
All website contents © 2003-2010 Anna Camilleri, unless otherwise noted. |
