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Phone: +46 76318180
Citizenship: Canadian, Swedish Languages: French, English, Swedish

Marie Andrée Robitaille

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Current work

Current Work
  • ​2024- 

  • 2011-

Coordinator Baltic Nordic Circus Network  

Founder and artistic leader, CirkusPerspektiv, AB Sweden

Previous positions

Previous positions and periods of appointment

  • 2019-2024

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PhD Candidate in Performative and Mediated Practices with specialisation in Choreography, Circus department at Stockholm University of the Arts SKH, Sweden.

  • 2014-2018

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  • 2009-2014

  • 2007-2009

  • 2006-2007

  • 2003-2005

  • 1998-2003

Assistant professor in circus, head of bachelor of arts in circus at
SKH, Stockholm, Sweden.

Management, administration, Pedagogy, Artistic direction

Assistant Professor in Circus, head of artistic studies, bachelor programme in circus, SKH, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

Talent scout, casting department, Cirque du Soleil, Quebec, Canada.
Sourcing, recruiting and casting for International and large-scale circus production

 

 

Operating agent, Service de police de la ville de Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Administrative positions to support police operations. Data acquisition, messages switching, investigation.

 

Pedagogical and artistic director cirkus gymnasium estetika programmet-ny cirkus, S :T Botvids gymnasium, Cirkus Cirkör, Sweden.
Management.

 

Circus artist, Cirkus Cirkör: SuperCirkör 98, 00 :00, TRIX, touring 26 countries.

Other professionnal activities

  • 2018

  • 2017

  • 2017

  • 2011

  • 2009

Work-shop leader: Human in Circus, Circus Session, femmes du Feu, Harbourg front Theater, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Adviser: gender in circus, Swedish Art Council, Sweden.

 

Adviser: Cirque du Soleil and International Perspective in Circus Art, Swedish Art Council, Sweden.
 

Founder and art director: CirkusPerspektiv, Sweden.

 

Casting Partner: Cirque du Soleil, Canada.

Education & Degrees

Education & Degrees

  • 2017

  • 2017

  • 2015

  • 2012

  • 2007

  • 2006

  • 1995-1998

  • 1992-1998

  • 1992-1998

Research Methods for Curators and Artists, curational studies online, NODE Center, Berlin.

Tri-Council Policy Statement, ethical conduct for research involving humans, course on research ethics

TCPS 2: Core, Canadian panel of Ethics, Canada.

Introduction to research design in Circus ht15, Circus department, Stockholm University of the Arts

SKH, Sweden.

UP2 Pedagogy at University level, Teaching in the disciplines, Stockholm University. Stockholm,

Sweden.

Project Management methodologies, CPM Ingenierie, CDS, Montreal, Canada.

 

Police Service, Montreal, Canadian Certification, Information agent and operator, Montreal, Canada
 

Higher education studies in Circus Arts, National circus school, Montreal, Canada.

Professional studies in modern dance, Ecole de danse de Québec, Québec, Canada.

 

Human Sciences, DEC, CEGEP de Ste-Foy, Quebec, Canada.

Research Projects

Ongoing Research Projects

  • 2019

  • 2017-2019

Circus as Dialogue, PhD project in performative and mediated practices at Stockholm University of the Arts SKH, Sweden.

Hidden Circus, a study on sensation and senses of perception, (Interactive modes of composition in circus arts) Stockholm University of the Arts SKH, Sweden.

Previous Research Projects

  • 2017-2019

  • 2013-2014

  • 2011

  • 2010

  • 2006

Sound of Circus, Mode of sonic interraction in circus arts, SKH, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

The agency of women in circus, feminist strategies in circus composition

Stockholm University of the Arts SKH, Stockholm, Sweden.


Learning the methods of teaching the methods of artistic research, Colloquium on artistic research in

performing arts

 

Theatre academy Helsinki, Finland.


Research on immersive technological environment in circus performance, TOHU, La Cité des Arts du

Cirque and in collaboration with Society for Arts and Technology SAT, Montreal, Canada.

Publications

Publications (Peer-reviewed articles)

  • 2014

  • 2010

Maurizio Goina, Marie Andree Robitaille, Roberto Bresin
Interactive sonification in circus performance at Uniarts and KTH: ongoing research

Proceedings of the sound and music computing Sweden Conference

2014 Ludvig Elblaus, Maurizio Goina, Marie Andree Robitaille, Roberto Bresin

Modes of sonic interaction in circus - Three proofs of concept

Proceedings - 40th International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2014

11th Sound and Music Computing Conference, SMC 2014

Music Technology Meets Philosophy: From Digital Echos to Virtual Ethos | conference-paper.

 

2010 Damkjaer, Robitaille (2010) Learning the Method of Teaching the Methods of Artistic Research p.135

Artistic Research in action: proceedings of CARPA 2- colloquium on artistic research in performing arts

Arlander, Teatterikorkeakoulu / Teaterhögskolan / Theatre Academy Helsinki, 2010.

Showings/Expositions

Showings/Expositions

  • 2019

  • 2019

  • 2018

  • 2018

  • 2017

  • 2016

  • 2015

  • 2015

  • 2014

  • 2014

  • 2014

  • 2014

  • 2013

  • 2013

  • 2013

Eco-Circus_Music and Circus in Dialogue_Festival Total Stage, School of Bauhaus, Germany.

 

Eco-Circus_Music and Circus in Dialogue_Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden.


Hidden Circus_Alliances and Commonalities Conference, Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden.

Eco-Circus_Human in Circus_ Circus Sessions, femmes du feu, Toronto Harbourg Front Theater,

Toronto, Canada.


Hidden Circus_ Science faction, a study on sensations and senses of perception in circus arts

SKH, Sound and Music Computing group at the Department of Media technology and interaction design, KTH Royal Institute of technology, Dômes of Vision, Nordic Innovativ Juggling, Stockholm, Sweden.
Sound Fiction: https://vimeo.com/233954455

 

Gynoïdes-Circus Female Intelligentsia, (Summary project: representation of women in circus + sound of circus, sonic modes of compositions in circus arts) Riksteatern, Cirkör LAB, Orionteatern, Uniarts, Stockholm, Sweden.
Full lenght performance: https://vimeo.com/157478949 (Password: Androides)

Press, documentation

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xx3mw03gklnlkak/AADqh7D40DpMrCkWln8mblj4a?dl=0 Acoustic Acrobatics: https://vimeo.com/240357172

 

Gynoïdes project, Bêta Test XI, SKH, Stockholm, AHA Festival at the Department of Architecture Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden.

http://ahafestival.se/

Gynoïdes Project VIII, SKH, UNIARTS, Stockholm, Subtopia, Botkyrka, Sweden. Visual art work https://vimeo.com/124519427

Gynoïdes Project, Sonic interaction in circus , Tacit or Loud Symposium and Festival : where is the knowledge in art? Symposium and festival for artistic research in the section "Whose knowledge? A critical perspective on knowledge production in the arts ».

http://www.teatrweimar.se/tacitorloud/

Gynoïdes Project , project summary, Seminar Concept and composition, Uniarts, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

Gynoïdes Project -Bêta Test VII, Sound of Circus, live composition, sonic interaction at Women in

Circus Consortium 2nd edition, SKH, Stockholm, Sweden.
 

Gynoïdes project, The 40th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) joint with the 11th

Sound & Music Computing conference (SMC). "Music Technology meets Philosophy: From Digital Echos to Virtual Ethos ». Athens, Greece.
Visual Art work https://vimeo.com/124212306

 

Bêta Test VI, Modes of Sonic Interaction in Circus, Women in Circus Consortium 1st edition, SKH, Cirkör LAB Botkyrka, Sound and Music Computing Group at KTH, KTH R1 Experimental Performance Space & Presence Laboratory , Stockholm, Sweden.

Sonified Wheel Cyborg Acrobat Cyborg Lights

https://vimeo.com/87856666 https://vimeo.com/88395101 https://vimeo.com/87856667

 

Gynoïdes Project BêtaTest V , SKH, Festival Pisteurs D’étoiles, Obernai, France. HulaHoop enhanced / sonified http://vimeo.com/89199084
Aerial Hoop Sonified http://vimeo.com/89203380

 

Gynoïdes Project Bêta Test IV , Accoustic capture of the sound, sound embodiement, SKH Stockholm, Sweden.

Acoustic capture of the movement https://vimeo.com/54896070

  • 2012

  • 2012

  • 2011

  • 2010

  • 2010

Gynoïdes Project Bêta Test III Feminin public space, Gynoïdes circularity, SKH, Kulturfestivalen Stockholm, Sweden.

Extract performance http://vimeo.com/51896098#at=0


Closing Acts, circus composition, graduation show, Bachelor of Art in Circus SKH, Sweden.

Visual Art Work https://vimeo.com/59894641


Gynoïdes Project Bêta Test II, Feminist strategies in circus choreographies, circus apparatus as corporal extension, Festival Elles en rient encore, Theatre International de quartier, le Prato, Lille, France.

 

Gynoïdes Project Bêta Test I, Representation of women in circus, toward feminine choreographies

and spaces, Festival La Piste aux Espoirs, Tournai, Belgique.


Closing Acts, circus composition, graduation show, Bachelor of Art in Circus SKH, Sweden.

Production

Production/Curation work

  • 2019

  • 2019

  • 2018

  • 2017

  • 2017-2019

  • 2014

  • 2013

  • 2010, 12, 14, 16

Women in Circus Consortium_5th edition, CircusInfo Helsinki, Finland.


Women in Circus Consortium_4th edition, Dynamo Festival, Odense, Danemark.


Pre-Study Circus Perspectives Innovation Center commissionned by The City of Stockholm, Sweden. 2018 Women in Circus Consortium, third edition, in collaboration with Cirkus Cirkör SWE


Nordic Innovative Juggling, CirkusPerspektiv, Nordic Regions.


Women in Circus Network, CirkusPerspektiv, Nordic Regions.


Women in Circus Consortium, second edition, DOCH, Uniarts, KTH R1, Stockholm, Sweden.


Women in Circus Consortium, first edition, Cirkör LAB, DOCH, Stockholm, Sweden.


Closing Acts, graduation show, Bachelor of Art in Circus DOCH, Sweden.

Artistic work

Public artistic work (selected performing work)

  • 2004

  • 2000-2002

  • 1999-2000

  • 1998

  • 1998

  • 1995

Danses Circassiennes, PPS Danse, Montreal, Canada. Melodie Festival, Umeå, Sweden.

Les Choix de Sophie, le spécial Odyssée du Livre, Québec, Canada.

 

Trix, Cirkus Cirkör and Orionteatern, Sweden, World tour.

Europe MTV Awards, Cikör Event, Sweden.

Telia, Cirkör Event, Sweden.


00:00, Cirkus Cirkör, Scandinavia and European tour.


SuperCirkör98, Cirkus Cirkör, Sweden.


General Motor Show, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Canada. 1997 Cirque du Monde, Montreal, Canada.


Fascination, Alain Choquette and ENC, Forum, Montreal, Canada.

Stunt

Professional Stunt (selected works)

  • 2003

  • 2001

  • 1997

Tosca, Norrlandsoperan, Umea, Sweden.


Sylphyden, Oestregasveark teatern, Danemark.

 

Karmina, Luxfilm, Montreal, Canada.

Lectures

Popular lectures

  • 2019

  • 2017

  • 2018

  • 2014

  • 2013

  • 2012

Representation and agency  of Women in Circus _Book Fair, Forskartorget Bokmässan Göteborg, Sweden

Representation and agency of Women in Circus_ Circus and it’s others conference, Prague, Tchèque Republic

Pedagogy and Circus Aesthetics, Festival Génération cirque, Théatre Cirque Elbeuf, France.

 

The Re-presentation of Women in Circus, Women in Circus Consortium, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

Tribute to Phia Menard, Women in Swedish Performing Arts, Sweden.

Social

Memberships, Merits & Social Engagement

  • 2019

  • 2019

  • 2018

  • 2016-2017

  • 2014-2015

  • 2013-2014

  • 2013-2014

  • 2012-2013

  • 2011-2015

  • 2011

  • 2010-2011

  • 2010

  • 2007

  • 2006

  • 2003

  • 2004-2005

  • 2002

  • 1988-1993

Member of Manegen board, Sweden, Manegen promotes the professionnal circus artists in Sweden.

Member of the organisational Board, CARP, Circus Art Research Platform


Member of the Circus and it’s Others Research Group, Brock University Ontario, Canada

 

Awarded grant by Stockholm County Council, the City of Stockholm, Swedish Art Grant Committee,

Swedish Art Council, Nordic Culture Point, Nordic Kulturfund for ECO-CIRCUS project


Awarded grant by the City of Stockholm, Swedish Art Grant Committee, Swedish Art Council, Cana-

dian Council for the Arts, Canadian Council for the Art for Gynoïdes Project


Member FEDEC, Focus group applied research initiatives in teaching, education, creation in circus

 

Curator, Women in circus consortium, Stockholm, Sweden.


Awarded grant by the City of Stockholm, Swedish Art council, Stockholm County Council. Swedish Art

Grant Committe.


 Member of Manegen board, Sweden, Manegen promotes the professionnal circus artists in

Sweden.


Jury member, 27th edition of Golden circus festival, Rome, Italy, International circus competition

 

Member of KUFU Board, University of dance and circus, Stockholm, Sweden.

Kufu-Board initiates, operates and provides support for artistic development


Member the artistic board, Vice-Chancellor’s reference group on artistic vision, DOCH, Stockholm,

Sweden.


Jury member, 28th edition of Cegep en spectacle, Montréal, Canada, Canada.

 

Awarded grant by Le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Québec, Canada.

 

Member of En piste, regroupement national des arts du cirque, Montréal, Canada.

 

Education board member of Cirkus Cirkör, Stockholm, Sweden.


Jury member of Stockholm street, sports and arts championship, Sweden.

 

Multiple national and regional champion titles in tracks and field and cross-country

Club Triaste, university Laval, Quebec, Canada

Press

Press (Selected Press)

  • 2016

  • 2014

  • 2013

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