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Thought Residencies

The Thought Residencies are back! This season, hear four long-form conversations between artists about theatre, creation and community. All hosted by b Current Artistic Director and FOLDA Co-Curator, Marcel Stewart. The Thought Residencies were founded in 2014 as short musings from innovative Canadian theatre makers, produced by Spiderwebshow in partnership with b Current Performing Arts.

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Eva Barrie - Thought #1 - Lobbies

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2020/03/03

My name is Eva Barrie and this is my first thought. I’m thinking a lot about Lobbies. Or more so... I’m thinking about the conditions we create for people to experience a play or an event. So one of my favourite theatres is the Schaubuehne in Berlin and there’s a bar in their lobby, with a table reserved for the artists of the production, so that afterward, the artists can drink or hang out at the theatre afterward, and therefore be accessible to the theatre goers. I think about how in Toronto our

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Chantal Bilodeau - Thought #12 - Focus

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2020/02/27

My name is Chantal Bilodeau and this is thought number twelve, which is also the last thought of this residency. I’ve been craving focus. I don’t know if it’s me or the outside world but I feel like my life is very scattered and my ability to pay attention somewhat compromised. It’s difficult to have any thought that has any depth when you can only think in fifteen-minute increments, or when you’re always interrupted. I like the variety and I do enjoy some amount of chaos because it can be very

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Chantal Bilodeau - Thought #11 - In the Way

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2020/02/26

My name is Chantal Bilodeau and this is Thought Number Eleven. I’m thinking about two things – one was said to me and the other one I read – and for some reason these two things are resonating with me today. The first one is “You can never get enough of what you don’t need” and it was said to me by a massage therapist. The second one was written by playwright Sarah Ruhl and it's “Life doesn’t get in the way.” So I’m thinking about things we crave but don’t need, and the way we always think that life

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Chantal Bilodeau - Thought #10 - Translation

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2020/02/25

My name is Chantal Bilodeau and this is Thought Number Ten. I’m thinking about translation because this is what I’ve been doing intensely for the past several days and I am grateful to be able to travel from one world to another like that, and to have the joy of seeing what’s unique in both worlds. But I’m also aware of the loss, of all those things that don’t travel well between languages because they can’t be captured outside of their context. And that makes me think of people like me, immigrants

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Chantal Bilodeau - Thought #9 - Thoughts

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2020/02/20

My name is Chantal Bilodeau and this is Thought Number Nine. The process of having a thought is interesting. Usually it happens sort of unnoticed in the background. But when you have to have a thought to record it, then you find yourself thinking about your thoughts, editing them, and trying to decide which one is worthy and which one is not. And so, I’ve been sitting here for about twenty minutes, wondering: OK, which thought is a good thought? And of course, in the process millions of them have

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Chantal Bilodeau - Thought #8 - Anxiety

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2020/02/19

My name is Chantal Bilodeau and this is Thought Number Eight. Here’s a list of things that give me anxiety: deadlines, traffic jams, being late, avoidable conflict, unavoidable conflict, too much sugar, not enough sugar, financial insecurity, patterns that repeat indefinitely – like flowers on a wallpaper, bad theatre, climate change, overpopulation, inequality, presidential elections, having to disappoint someone, having to say no to someone, doing a bad job, not being a good friend, making English

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Chantal Bilodeau - Thought #7 - Worth It

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2020/02/18

My name is Chantal Bilodeau and this is Thought Number Seven. My thoughts today were a little bit like this: “Go!” “No, I don’t have time.” “But it’s beautiful outside!” “No, no, it’s gonna make me late.” “Go, go, just for five minutes!” “No! I’m so overwhelmed!” But in the end, I went and I looked at the river for five minutes, and it was completely worth it.

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Chantal Bilodeau - Thought #6 - Beauty

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2020/02/13

My name is Chantal Bilodeau and this is Thought Number Six. I was walking to the subway tonight, and I was walking fast because I was in a hurry. I was also trying to solve a problem in my head so I wasn’t paying much attention. But at some point I noticed a sculpture and I almost just glanced at it and walked away but I decided to stop and really look at it. And it immediately made me feel happy because for one thing, it was beautiful but also it reminded me that beauty is everywhere and that it’s

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Chantal Bilodeau - Thought #5 - Need

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2020/02/12

My name is Chantal Bilodeau and this is Thought Number Five. Today, I was in a workshop titled The New Climate Story at Columbia University in New York, in a beautiful room that overlooks Manhattan. Out of a group of about fifty, there were only three of us in the theatre and the rest of the group was half journalists and half scientists. And I was reminded that though what we do in the theatre is often undervalued, in the climate world, I have always been not just welcomed but also called upon to

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Chantal Bilodeau - Thought #4 - Joker

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2020/02/11

My name is Chantal Bilodeau and this is Thought Number Four. I didn’t watch the Oscars and I also haven’t see the movie "The Joker" but I am very grateful for Joaquin Phoenix’s Oscar speech where he called out the injustices of the world and talked about how we have become disconnected from the natural world, and how our egocentric world view is causing us to plunder its resources. I’m grateful that he can reach millions of people and is willing to say these things.

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Chantal Bilodeau - Thought #3 - Ice Cream

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2020/02/06

My name is Chantal Bilodeau and this is thought number three. To eat the ice cream or not to eat the ice cream? That is the question. Is it better to be emotionally fulfilled and physically uncomfortable or to be physically well but emotionally deprived? I think life is full of these dilemmas and when we go for black and white solutions, we’re usually missing part of the picture. This said, I’m eating the ice cream.

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Chantal Bilodeau - Thought #2 - Patterning

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2020/02/05

My name is Chantal Bilodeau and this is Thought #2. I’ve been reading the book The Patterning Instinct by Jeremy Lent and it talks about how with the advent of agriculture, we developed the concept of boundaries and lines and squares. As long as we were hunters and gatherers, we saw the world as fluid – boundaries were permeable and everything was sort of a curve. But with agriculture, when we started growing things and having our own fields, we needed to determine what was ours and what wasn’t. And

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Chantal Bilodeau - Thought #1 - Blessed

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2020/02/04

My name is Chantal Bilodeau and this is my first thought. I wonder what it means to be blessed these days. I’m sitting on my bed drinking a cup of Chai tea out of a cup that says “Blessed” and I think about all the climate disruptions, the coronavirus, um, terrible elections in many countries, protests – all the things that are changing this world – and… maybe being blessed just means being – … actually being able to sit on a bed and drink a cup of Chai out of a cup that says “Blessed.”

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Marcus Youssef - Thought #15

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2020/01/24

Marcus Youssef here, thought number 15, I think. In the rehearsal room with Back to Back Theatre working on their project, The Democratic Set. Thinking about the way narrative is constructed in this image-based video/theatre project and how the creator/facilitators just kind of respond to offers that all these individual non-professionals and professionals make in these little, short pieces; and then weave them together through the kind of introduction of different prop elements and set elements and

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Marcus Youssef - Thought #14 - Doing it Live

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2020/01/22

Marcus Youssef, thought number 14. I'm thinking about the nature of this form, the thought residency. I think the intention is to capture a thought in the moment of having it. That's been my experience. I have a thought and I think, "OK, this will be great. This is a thought worth exploring or sharing." But it's funny. Something happens because I don't alway -- I don't usually go and record that thought. I kind of file it in my brain for later and then I do what I'm doing now, which is attempt to

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Marcus Youssef - Thought #13

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2020/01/21

Hi, it's Marcus Youssef and it's thought number 13. I'm sitting in a rehearsal room with Back to Back Theatre from Australia, beginning work on their project, The Democratic Set. And thinking about Back to Back, which is a company, that has inspired me and my work, or aspects of my work, for close to 15 years. It's an ensemble that is mixed-ability. It's neurodiverse folks and neurotypical folks, and they make extraordinary shows that—in which disability, intellectual disability, is not the focus at

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Marcus Youssef - Thought #12

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2020/01/08

Hi, it's Marcus Youssef. Thought number eleven. I'm thinking about the recent events in Iran and the assassination of the Iranian political and military leader. And then also in particular, the images of his funeral and the sort of breathless coverage of the people who are trampled and the millions of Iranians who are out, at least according to the news reports I saw, mourning his death. And the way this image of millions of Iranians out in the streets has driven the narrative of the West's

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Marcus Youssef - Thought #11

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2020/01/08

Hi, it's Marcus Youssef and this is number 11. I'm thinking about - whatever - the usual thoughts of how toxic social media is. But in particular about - the fewer and fewer times I'm on social media recently - how those feelings of resentment and upset I have about my friends posts, which are always about their success. And thinking about Shoshana Zuboff's book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, and all the data analysis stuff that's come out in the last year. And how I just literally want to

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Marcus Youssef - Thought #10

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2020/01/08

Hi, it's Marcus Youssef. Thought number 10. Thinking about the number of times that I've been in rehearsal rooms, mostly as a writer recently, and had my language or perspective or presumptions challenged – often about gender fluidity or, I guess, gender identities. And how that's been mostly great. Like, I'm always kind of like, "Huh? What? Huh?" And that makes me think about the condition of getting older, and as a political person who always thought they would be on the cutting edge and leading

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Marcus Youssef - Thought #9 - In Conversation with...

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2019/12/18

Marcus Youssef here. Thought number nine. Thinking about a conversation I had with Sarah Benson last week. She's the artistic director of Soho Rep. And was a big part of developing the play Fairview, which is an extraordinary play about race in the United States, and representation of race in the U.S. In which, like so much of the work I'm most excited by right now, the form, formal inventions perfectly reflect the analysis and the exploration and investigation of the content. Anyway, talking to

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