TRANSCENDENT SPACE

Transcendent Space is an intimate tabletop performance that explores themes of isolation, creativity, and identity.

This thought-provoking new work explores themes of isolation, longing, and the boundless power of human ingenuity. Witness the journey of a lone astronaut as she battles monotony, cabin fever, and the lingering ghosts of her past, transforming everyday objects into the mysteries and marvels of a sci-fi odyssey.

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.

TRANSCENDENT SPACE Completed Phase One Development, January 27 - February 9, 2025

Phase One Development Workshop Produced by Ghost River with funding provided by Calgary Arts Development.

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 collectively explored and developed 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.

Photography & videography by 2150 Creative/Matt McKinney.

NEWS & MEDIA

2025 WORKSHOP CREDITS

Created by Robin Leveroos and Eric Rose

Performed by Robin Leveroos

Directed by Eric Rose

Kat Andra Armstrong – Production Assistant

Abby Weeks - Technical Assistant

Jake Rose - Set Builder

Celina Vides - Interim Producer

Photography & videography - 2150 Creative/Matt McKinney.

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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**Celina Vides**

**Interim Producer**
Celina Vides (she/her) is a Salvadoran-Canadian artist and arts administrator based in Mohkinstsis/Calgary with over 10 years of experience in the non-profit sector. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from Mount Royal University and has completed the Rozsa Arts Management Program. Celina is currently the Features Programmer in Residence and Industry Specialist at the Calgary International Film Festival. She also serves as a board member for the Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation, an organization focused on creating and advancing opportunities for immigrant artists and art professionals looking to start careers in the arts sector in Alberta. In addition, she has worked and volunteered for various Calgary festivals and is passionate about promoting diversity and inclusion in the arts.

Abby Weeks

**Technical Assistant**
Abby is a Calgary-born theatre artist, and a graduate of the University of Alberta's BA Drama. Over the last three years she has been developing her technical talents with the likes of Calgary Young People's Theatre, the FLC Seniors Acting Club, West Village Theatre, and more. She recently stage managed Ghost River Theatre’s “The Room Sculpture Experience” and National Devised Theatre Intensive production “Palace of Magpies”. Striving to be a jack of all trades artist, Abby also loves lighting, acting, writing and directing, and is pursuing stage combat.

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.

**Kat Andra Armstrong**

**PRODUCTION ASSISTANT**
Katherine! (she, her, hers) I’m a trans actress and artist working in Guts’ists’i, Wîcîspa, Moh'kinstsis; Colonial Calgary. Wild in constellations, demonic uni-debt I swear I won’t take to the grave (while U of C president Ed McCauley takes $492,275.62 yearly), and thrums of rain. Lately, when not brutalized by cops the uni sics on their student body: been Fringe-ing and dating audiences in DATE NIGHT, live-synthing at BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES, inciting hostage takeovers in TALKING TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT GUNS, crying over students’ writing at ATP, humming-birding in WAGONSTAGE, and video-producing with QUEST.
Recently wrote and illustrated a 56 pg. picture-fable: FREE TIME; about love, Imperial genocidal Canada, family, and doom.
Come be a clown and swim! Tell me scary stories of ghosts, dreams, love, and if you should take estrogen (yes).

Jake Rose

Set Builder

I am a multidisciplinary artist and a graduate of the University of Lethbridge’s dramatic arts program. With over 28 Design credits on productions in Calgary and Lethbridge, I specialize in scenic design and construction. My approach to design is centred around my enjoyment for creation. Most recently I have done scenic design and construction for seven of the Calgary Young People’s Theatre’s productions (2022-2024), facilitated the CYPT Community DreamShop expansion at the West Village Theatre as Project Manager, and self produced my own work. In 2022 I produced, designed, and co-directed The Nordegg Incident— an intertextual “Ted Talk” meets the Blair Witch Project.