
NEW CREATION:
aSH, a piece by Aurélien Bory for Shantala Shivalingappa
AUDREY-ANNE
BOUCHARD

« This project was born from a desire to create a show that would be accessible to both audiences who have their sense of vision and to people who live with a visual impairment. »
- Audrey-Anne Bouchard
© David Ward
AUDREY-ANNE BOUCHARD
Project instigator, author and director
Audrey-Anne Bouchard is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and teacher. A graduate of Concordia University’s Design for the Theatre program, she first established her career in the arts as a Lighting Designer for Dance and Theatre. In parallel, her versatility and curiosity for the collative creation process encourage her to develop and direct her own creations. Inspired by her visual disability, Audrey-Anne imitates the Au-delà du visuel (Beyond sight) research project that seeks to explore how to create and communicate a dance-theatre experience that does not involve sight and that would therefore be accessible to an audience living with vision loss. With a team of dedicated collaborators including dancers-choreographers, set and sound designers, actor and playwright, they develop the Beyond sight creative method and create a new immersive artistic form that engages the spectator’s every senses but sight. The outcome of three years of research, the interdisciplinary performance Camille was presented with great success at the MAI last September 2019. With her team, Audrey-Anne now pursues her research and begins the creation of a Fragments (working title), a new piece beyond sight... In addition, she is active in the development of inclusion in the arts and participates in various activities: She is a member of the city of Montreal’s Chantier for Universal accessibility and a member of the Montreal Arts Council accessibility consultation committee. Since 2015, she has acted as Production coach for the students at the National Theatre School of Canada.
**Accessible to people living with a visual impairment
**Camille’s website is currently available in French only.

Photo: Diana Uribe Graphism Carlos Alberto Rátiva Gonzá

Credit: David Wong

Credit: Laurence Gagnon-Lefebvre

Photo: Diana Uribe Graphism Carlos Alberto Rátiva Gonzá
Camille: The story - 2021
IMMERSIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCE
AN IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE
PRODUCED BY Audrey-Anne Bouchard
CONCEIVED BY Audrey-Anne Bouchard IN COLLABORATION WITH Joseph Browne, Marijoe Foucher, Laurence Gagnon Lefebvre,
Laurie-Anne Langis & Marc-André Lapointe
DIRECTION Audrey-Anne Bouchard
CHOREOGRAPHY Laurie-Anne Langis and Marijoe Foucher
TEXT Audrey-Anne Bouchard & Marc-André Lapointe
PERFORMERS Marijoe Foucher, Laurie-Anne Langis, Marc-André Lapointe, Sarah Leblanc-Gosselin, Olivier Rousseau
& Guenièvre Sandré
SET & COSTUME DESIGN Laurence Gagnon Lefebvre
in collaboration with Diana Uribe
SOUND DESIGN & MUSIC Joseph Browne in collaboration
with Rob Denton
This piece features excerpts of : Dream 1 (Before the wind blows it all away) by Max Richter
TECHNICAL DIRECTION Étienne Mongrain-Vaillancourt
MEDIATION Anne-Sophie Tougas
DURATION 90 minutes (including audience preparation
and artistic mediation)
CREW 6 performers/guides + 2 stage managers
+ 1 art mediator/moderator
SET-UP 12 hours
STAGE DIMENSIONS
Width 13m / Depth 10.7m / Height 3.5m
Width 42ft / Depth 30ft / Height 12ft
AUDIENCE SIZE 6 spectators per show
OUTREACH
- Awareness workshops for the general public
- Beyond the visual creative method for artists
VIEW TECHNICAL RIDER (FRENCH)
Camille: The Story is an immersive performance designed to engage all of your senses—except sight. In this revised version of the show Camille: un rendez-vous au-delà du visuel, audience members are invited to enter the performance space, to sit at the centre of the set, as the story unfolds.
After his close friend Camille’s departure, Pierre navigates her absence and revisits memories that take shape through movement, smell and sound. Grounded both in the real and the surreal, the story sheds light on Pierre’s emotional journey as he faces the loss of a meaningful friendship and tries to create ties with new people.
Camille offers a sensory experience that is accessible to all audience members, whether blind, partially sighted, or sighted.
For this incredible piece, Audrey-Anne Bouchard received the "OUTSTANDING DIRECTION" award at the Annual METAs Ceremony 2022!
“An experience that is out of the ordinary.’’
- Jessie Archambault, AMI télé
VISUAL TRAILER ( FR ONLY )

photo Francis Nadeau Lussier

MAI - credit Paul Litherland

MAI - credit Paul Litherland

photo Francis Nadeau Lussier
FRAGMENTS - 2024
IMMERSIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCE
IN CREATION
DIRECTOR AND CO-AUTHOR: Audrey-Anne Bouchard
CO-AUTHOR AND ACTOR: Marc-André Lapointe
CHOREOGRAPHERS AND PERFORMERS: Marijoe Foucher and Laurie-Anne Langis
ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGNER AND COMPOSER: Joseph Browne
PIANIST AND ASSOCIATE COMPOSER: Vytautas Bucionis Jr. SCENOGRAPHY: Josée Bergeron-Proulx
DURATION between 45 and 75 minutes
AUDIENCE SIZE from 12 to 24 spectators
OUTREACH
- Awareness workshops for the general public are available. Workshops to teach the method of creation “beyond the visual” available to artists and performing professionals (ideal for performing arts students).
RESIDENCE FOOTAGE ( FR ONLY )
Fragments (working title) is a brand new research-creation project that explores the theme of memory through the construction of a fragmented interdisciplinary narrative. As part of a first phase of work, the team explores memory as a scenographic place. How can the viewer be made to travel within the memory of a character? What is the sound and texture of this place? The artists are currently developing different techniques and qualities of stage presences to transmit dance and theater to a blind audience exploring among other things the sound of the gesture of writing, the amplification and spatialization of sounds and the superposition of narrative frames. Visually impaired pianist and composer Vytautas Bucionis Jr joins the process and brings a new sensitivity to the team’s inclusive approach. The final work will be accessible to blind people as well as partially sighted and sighted people invited to live the experience blindfolded. Artist Audrey-Anne Bouchard is supported by MAI in the creation of this work.
“How can we make the motionless spectator travel by transforming the scenography around him?"
- Audrey-Anne Bouchard