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The LeAb Iteration Lab is a creative partnership that Leah Souffrant and I began in 2023 to explore the places where our creative practices overlap, particularly a shared commitment to the processual — iterating, risk-taking, mistake-making, repetition, rehearsal, revision. We’ve come to think of our collaboration as performance research, a practice focused on understanding what performance does and
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The world feels heavy right now, especially if you’re living in the United States — the weight of violence, fear, and uncertainty as the systems that are supposed to hold things together seem to be cracking in some places and falling away in others. I feel it every day in waves, as though we’re on
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This weekend Burlington welcomed its first-ever Poutinefest. This celebration of gravy, curds, and fries and Franco-American culture has been going strong in Merrimack, New Hampshire for years. Portland, Maine joined the roster a few years ago, and now it’s finally Vermont’s turn! Our inaugural festival featured nine poutine vendors, maple creemees, hundreds of attendees, and
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Sincere thanks to Seven Days and the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus for their warm reviews of the first weekend of Lost Nation Theater’s production of The Revolutionists. Both reviews note the strength of our amazing ensemble cast, and the wild ride we’re able to take you on thanks to the skilled work of our director, designers,
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It’s a privilege to be working on a play like Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists right now. This fast-paced comedy tells the story of four women trying to survive the French Revolution, and the unique forms of courage with which each of them faces the uncertainty and violence surrounding them. Gunderson’s work often focuses on powerful female
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Please join me on Thursday, May 15 in Montpelier! We’ll be celebrating the release of two Vermont books with theatrical roots: my new book Piecework and the new, revised edition of David Budbill’s Judevine. Written in the 1970s, Judevine is a collection of poems that narrate the life of a northern Vermont town and its
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Meet me at the Haskell Free Library and Opera House this weekend! I’ll be doing a special borderland book launch event to celebrate Piecework and the cross-border ties that brought the book into being. This special afternoon event will include performances, music, conversation, and celebration in English and French. J’espère vous voir! Rejoignez-moi à la
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It’s a tricky time to be a person with their feet in two cultures. If you’re someone who crosses borders frequently, you understand that borders are places of friction, where identity shifts or slips, where we are made vulnerable. This is what is beautiful about borderlands — and also what makes them sites of conflict.
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I had an unforgettable few days in Orono this weekend, celebrating the launch of my new book at an annual gathering of Franco American artists known as the rassemblement. It’s a fascinating feeling to hold my work in my hands in its new (and beautiful!) form, and it was deeply meaningful to celebrate with friends,
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I have the great good fortune of heading to Orono, Maine this weekend for the rassemblement, a gathering of Franco American artists, writers, and culture-workers hosted by the Franco American Center of the University of Maine. This annual event provides an invaluable space for us to cultivate Franco culture by sharing our work with one
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