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 Valerie Salez
Valerie Salez eventually fell off her tuffet eating her curds & whey. Then, for some time, she lost her path. Once regaining herself Valerie began to write her own fairy tales & got on the art making train. Salez creates site-specific installation/interventions in both public and secret locales. She also exhibits and screens her studio work in galleries and festivals across Canada and in Europe. Valerie often collaborates with dancers, storytellers, writers and musicians using a combination of photographs, video, and animation. A Toronto Star writer wrote that her work was a “…bizarre and sincere conflation of opposites”. Valerie grew up in the Yukon and currently dwells in Dawson City, YT. She received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 2002.
 Bruce Horak
Bruce spent his formative years in Calgary, Alberta, training at Mount Royal College, Alberta Theatre Projects, and Loose Moose Theatre. Bruce spent seven summers onstage at Shakespeare in the Park, and four winters touring the province’s many elementary schools with Quest Theatre. He has written many plays for Young People, including works produced by Shakespeare in the Park (Calgary), Wagonstage (Calgary), Wide Open Productions (Saskatoon), Theatre SKAM (Victoria), and Monster Theatre (Vancouver/Toronto). His play for Quest Theatre, What You Can’t See, was nominated for a Betty Mitchell Award in 1999 in the category of Outstanding New Play. He is a co-founding member, writer, performer, and composer with Monster Theatre, whose various Fringe Theatre productions have won awards across the country. The Canada Show: The Complete History of Canada in One Hour (Best of Fest: Montreal, Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Vancouver – 2001-2002). The Big Rock Show: The Complete History of the World in One Hour (Best of Fest: Montreal, Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Vancouver – 2003). Fringe Show: A Love Story (Best of Fest: Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton – 2004). He directed Jesus Christ: The Lost Years, and Confessions of a Class Clown. Monster Theatre’s The Canada Show:.. won the Frankie Award in 2002, and was invited to perform at Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival that same year. Monster Theatre most recently created a new work for One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo, entitled The History of the Future. He most recently appeared in An Inconvenient Musical for the Toronto Fringe.
David Bateman
David Bateman is a spoken word artist who has performed his monologues and poetry across the country. His two collections of poetry (published by Frontenac House Press, Calgary) Invisible Foreground (2004) and Impersonating Flowers (2006) have received critical acclaim. He will be presenting a selection of his work at the Nakai Festival, including, He Impersonated Flowers All the Time, The Best Part of You, and Karaoke Monologue. ‘The Best Part of You’ is a humourous and explicit account of the narrator’s erotic fascination with the animated character of Betty Rubble. Bateman received a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Calgary in 2001 and teaches literature and creative writing at a variety of post-secondary institutions. He is currently teaching in the Cultural Studies Department at Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario).
 Ulysses Castellanos
Ulysses Castellanos was born in Latin America in the late sixties, and spent his childhood skipping school and traveling by bus through the streets of San Salvador, which in his opinion was the best art education anybody could ask for. As an artist, Ulysses is interested in investigating the role of mass media and popular culture in defining the way in which people see and identify themselves. His art practice encompasses film, video, music, performance, painting, photography and sculpture-installation, oftentimes combining these elements into elaborate live art performances. The central aim of his art practice is to demystify established cultural constructs by involving the viewer in the humorous debunking of idealized images, concepts and paradigms.
Kazumi Tsuruoka
KAZUMI TSURUOKA is a charismatic performer and speaker who has toured the Toronto school system speaking about disability through his own experience with Cerebral Palsy. In 1999 he became a core member of the Toronto Theatre Alliance's DIS THIS! Artists Group and has since trained in movement, voice and stage performance. He is cocreator of Samson's Hair; performed in E(merge)ncy at SummerWorks 2000; presented at the KickstART Festival of Disability Arts in Vancouver, 2001, and at the Ryerson's Institute of Disability Studies' Culture Cauldrons 2003-05. CP Salon premiered in 2004 in Toronto to enthusiastic response.
 Tanya Marquardt
As a performer, creator and Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre, Tanya has worked creatively with many theatre and dance companies including: radix theatre, MACHiNeNOiSeY, boca del lupo, Chrysalis Theatre, Seventeenth Floor Performance, Theatre Replacement, The Leaky Heaven Circus, the only animal, Mascall Dance, sirenscrossing, Peter Bingham, battery opera, Screaming Weenie Productions and nakai theatre, among others. She has written three plays, Liminal, Nocturne (an incomplete and inaccurate account of the love affair between George Sand & Frederic Chopin) which opened and closed NextFest 2003 in Edmonton Alberta, and Lounge, for which she won the 2007 Sydney J. Risk Award for Outstanding Original Script. She also shared a Jesse Richardson Award for Best Ensemble with The Leaky Heaven Circus on King Llyr. Upcoming is, mal du mer, a new dance piece set for development in New York City with Susan Elliott of Anatomica, a play in development based on Euripides Orestes with Playwright Theatre Centre in Vancouver and how to disappear completely, a new show in collaboration with Itai Erdal and Craig Hall for Rumble Theatre 2008/2009 Season.
Tickets will be available at Arts Underground or the Yukon Arts Centre Box Office January 11th: 667-8574.
Nakai Theatre would like to thank its season partners, Northwestel, The Yukon News, Westmark Whitehorse and Air North. Government support has been received from, the Department of Tourism and Culture, Elaine Taylor, Minister, the Yukon Lottery Commission, The Canada Council for the Arts, and the Department of Canadian Heritage.
CONTACT:
Katelyn Simpson, Nakai Theatre’s Marketing and Fund Development Director, 393-6044 marketing@nakaitheatre.com
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