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.

Current opportunities

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. 

The program is specifically for local, emerging and early-career artists and small, independent theatre companies or ensembles. Each artist or group will be supported and integrated into the company’s activities through conversation with GRT’s senior staff. 

Our goals with the AiR Program are:

  • Develop Calgary-based 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.

GRT AIR 2023 - 2024: LANDON KRENTZ

A VISUAL VERNACULAR PRODUCTION in development

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.

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.