OVERVIEW

Ghost River Theatre’s Artists-in-Residence program (GRT AiR) is designed to support, foster, and develop theatre creators within the Calgary performing arts community. It’s an opportunity for Ghost River Theatre to exchange practices and share resources with artists, ad-hoc groups, and independent companies that are exploring and experimenting with new approaches to creating live performance.

GRT Air 2024 - 2025: Robin leveroos

Ghost River Theatre creative collaborator Robin Leveroos (GIANT; STRUCK), currently based in Berlin, joins Ghost River Theatre for the month of February 2025 to engage in a multilayered residency to develop new work and share her unique design practice with our community of artists and audiences.

Robin Leveroos (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and insatiable tinkerer. Her practice focuses on queer use of objects, experimental animation, and playfully questioning how we see and experience the material world around us. In addition to producing Macromatter works, she also collaborates with other artists and companies as a performer and scenographer.

Some presentation highlights include: Schaubude, Berlin, Festival de Casteliers, Montreal, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Vancouver, Macau Puppet and Object Theatre Festival, Macau, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design, Prague, World Stage Design ScenoFest, Taipei, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Originally from Minneapolis, MN, Robin immigrated to Canada in 2005. She graduated from The National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal and holds an MFA in Performance and Design from Simon Fraser University. She served three seasons running the youth programming at The Cultch in East Vancouver, and continues to work with youth and young artists of all ages. Now residing in Berlin, some passions include reading, cycling, farming, sewing, jewelry design, and rave dancing.

GRT AIR 2023 - 2024: LANDON KRENTZ

A world without them

A groundbreaking new Visual Vernacular work exploring extinction, co-created by Landon Krentz and Eric Rose.

GRT AiR 2021 - 2022: Ellipsis Tree CollectivE
The Anthropology of Blackness: a response through movements
produced through Ghost River Theatre’s Artists-in-ResidencE program

ETC, led by Artistic Director Janelle Cooper, was in residence at our home in the West Village Theatre for two weeks in February 2021 to begin the development of this new piece.

From February 24th - 26th, 2022, Ellipsis Tree Collective presented The Anthropology of Blackness: a response through movements, produced through Ghost River Theatre’s Artists-in-Residence program at West Village Theatre. This multi-genre performance piece features Chris Clare, Janelle Cooper, Adora Nwofor, Danielle Simon. Directed by Janelle Cooper, Choreographed by Chris Clare.

GRT AiR offers administrative support, space, training, and mentorship to a select group of artists or companies each season. The artists gain experience in GRT’s collaborative devising and producing models while exploring their unique practice and residency goals. 

Our goals with the AiR Program are:

  • Develop artists’ creative and producing skills 

  • Evolve and expand artistic practice

  • Share resources (administrative, space, technology)

  • Exchange training and methodologies (new / established) for the creation of unique live performance 

Overall, we are committed to expanding the possibilities of live performance and cultivating a community of adventurous artists seeking new forms of expression for the theatre.

ABOUT GHOST RIVER THEATRE

Led by Artistic Director Eric Rose and Executive Director Christy Offer, GRT is an award winning devised theatre company that creates, develops and mounts original productions through a significant investment in imaginative research and development. We make our work in a rigorous, supportive collaborative-creation environment that recognizes and utilizes the unique abilities of all participants, premiering our work in Calgary and then touring it nationally and internationally. Our work embraces a hybrid of high tech visual spectacle with low-fi theatrical magic.