TRANSCENDENT SPACE
Transcendent Space is an intimate tabletop puppetry show that explores themes of isolation, creativity, and identity.
The first trans astronaut crash lands on a strange and mostly empty planet…With little chance of rescue and no companionship, they resort to putting on small performances using objects salvaged from their spaceship to stave off boredom and loneliness.
This show not only highlights the astronaut's struggle for human contact and companionship but also reflects on the concept of legacy. It encapsulates the monumental and mundane aspects of human existence and the desire for something of oneself to remain after they are gone.
CREDITS
Created by Robin Leveroos and Eric Rose
Set and Properties Design by Robin Leveroos
Performed by Robin Leveroos
Directed by Eric Rose
In Phase One Development January 27 - February 9, 2025
Phase One Development Workshop Produced by Ghost River Theatre.
GRT supports the development of new work through a significant investment in creative research, often bringing together teams of devising collaborators for multiple development phases. During this first phase, the artists will collectively explore and develop the theatrical language and aesthetics that will form the foundation of TRANSCENDENT SPACE. We invite our community to follow the journey of TRANSCENDENT SPACE’s development over the next few seasons.
STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS ON THE WORK-IN-PROGRESS SHARING IN FEBRUARY 2025!
CREATIVE TEAM
Robin Leveroos
Co-Creator, Designer, and Performer
GRT Artist-in-Residence, 2024-25
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.
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Eric Rose
Co-Creator and Director
GRT Artistic Director
Eric Rose is an award winning multi-disciplinary director and creator of live performance and the Artistic Director of Calgary’s acclaimed Ghost River Theatre. His passion for the creative process has inspired the diversity of his multidisciplinary experience spanning: large scale contemporary and classical theatre, site- specific performance, devising theatre, new play development, physical performance and dance. Eric’s work embraces a hybrid of high tech visual spectacle with low-fi theatrical magic and is developed through a significant investment in imaginative research and development.