Allison has performed on nearly all of Calgary’s major stages as an actor, singer, sound-designer, sound composer or musical director. She was an artist in the Theatre Junction resident company from 2007-2008. Selected credits include Romeo and Juliet, All’s Well that Ends Well, Goodnight Desdemona, Good-morning Juliet, The Shakespeare Company; Dear Johnny Deere, One Man Two Guvnors, A Christmas Carol, Theatre Calgary; Waiting for the Parade, The Red Priest, Ash Rizin ,The Penelopiad, ATP; Double Indemnity, In the Heat of the Night, Sweeney Todd, Vertigo; Closer, GZT/H&M; Ring of Fire, Rainbow Stage; A Worthy Opponent, Lunchbox; The Piper, Downstage; Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Essay, Urban Curvz; Twisted, Maria Rasputin Presents, Forte; The Soul Collector, Vigilante, Catalyst/ Persephone/ The Grand, NAC. Allison has three Betty Mitchell Awards…
Camille Betts received her BFA from Alberta College of Art and Design in 2006 studying sculpture, fibre and media arts after switching from industrial design. Pursuit of travel, music and lessons from the school of life enabled the artistic side to show itself over time. In 2009/2010 she completed the Interactive arts and Entertainment residency at the Canadian Film Center in Toronto which culminated in exhibiting an interactive piece at Toronto Nuit Blanche 2010. She has been a member of Burnt Toast Studio since 2008 building large installation sculptures with everything from her recycled handmade paper, to VHS ribbon and old party decorations. In 2016 a new chapter opened for Camille by joining Studio Cartel; with more industrial tools to work with her work expanded…
Peter Moller lives and creates here, in Treaty 7 territory. He has run Egg Press Co., a graphic and sound design establishment, since forever. The recipient of a number of Betty Mitchell and Elizabeth Sterling Haynes awards and nominations for his theatre sound designs, it has been his good fortune to collaborate with many of Calgary’s widely diverse theatre companies. He was even once a member of Theatre Junction’s Resident Company of Artist’s. In the early ‘80s, Peter and Richard McDowell were the bass and drums rhythm-section Calgary punkers The Rip Chords who rehearsed and rocked-out at Richard’s club Ten Foot Henry’s, the alternative-culture hot spot during the downturn. These days he plays drums with his friends Kris Demeanor, Chantal Vitalis &…
Lane Shordee is a multidisciplinary artist living in Calgary, Alberta. Drawing from construction waste and items found by happenstance, he builds elegant sculptures and installations that both challenge and indulge our relationships with our urban and rural ecologies. Shordee’s notable works include THE GREENHOUSE (Kensington, Calgary – Wreck City: An Epilogue for 809) and WATER SPIRAL (A collaborative public work with Michelena Bamford, waterspiral.wordpress.com). What will you show us at The Dream Factory? The ideas are still very much in a dream mode, but what you will find is an installation that looks at two sides of dreaming. One side being the conglomeration of senses coming together to create a dream reality, and another side which reveals the mechanisms…
Chris Dadge is a musician, composer, producer, and live performance organizer. As a drummer, his most visible role, he’s known for his work with artists such as Chad VanGaalen, Samantha Savage Smith, Alvvays, Rae Spoon, Woodpigeon, and Snailhouse; he currently coleads critically acclaimed psych-pop combo Lab Coast, whose latest full-length, Lab Coast, is being released this May on Britain’s Faux Discx Records. Dadge also appeared on dozens of recordings as a session drummer, spent three years as Theatre Junction’s resident composer, and has been been involved in various collaborations for internationally-shown dance pieces. Since 2004, Dadge has also run Bug Incision, a concert series and record label specializing in various fringe musical genres, especially free improvisation. He’s issued just shy of 100 albums of…
Anton De Groot is a freelance designer, creator and theatre maker based in Calgary, and has recently completed an MFA in design and technical theatre. His main interest is in scenography within a devised theatre process; how immediate integration of light, sound and projection can be used in the conceptualization and creation of new plays. He is also a co-producer of The Deep Field Podcast, and you can follow him and all his interesting projects on Twitter. What will you show us at The Dream Factory? Your dreams, my friends’ dreams. The sound of inner space, the sound of outer space. A binaural beat salad. Patterns, correlation and coincidence. A hypnogogic pop’n’lock. If you had a dream for…
MAMMOTH VR is a collective of futurists and explorers that use Virtual Reality to navigate through time and space. Virtual Reality unlocks our limitations and gives us the ability to do anything, be anywhere and at any time, past, present or future. At MVR, we use this technology to tell immersive stories that educate inspire and entertain. Let us take you into a dreamlike experience that you will not soon forget. To learn more about MVR check them out here: www.mammothvr.com. What will you show us at The Dream Factory? We are showing a curated Virtual Experience that inspired us in the early days of the Virtual Reality resurgence back in 2014. You will be sent through a spiritual journey through…