Michael Caplan’s House of ShAkE
Featuring the work of
David Earle, Gilles Goyette, Bill Coleman,
Donald Brackett, Michael R. Caplan
Welcome to Michael Caplan’s House of ShAkE
House of ShAkE is …
A production house in various media, a publishing house dedicated to print and books, and a playhouse for performances, events, discussions, and more
A home-away-from-home for creators working in the “House style,” characterized by vital content and crossover appeal
My own home-base – I’m Michael R. Caplan, “Renaissance Man of the House”: director, performer, designer, writer, singer of down-home Porch Songs – and your host!
House of ShAkE is a company, a website, and a brand – an inn at the crossroads, a hot-house for incubation, a safe space for danger, an “ark for real” in a sea of unreal...
Welcome!
“The HouseWarming Fund”
Help us get the House off the ground!
As thanks for every donation of $100 or more, we'll send you the 2nd edition of David Earle's A Handbook for Ecstatic Survival, an “unusual and utterly engaging book” (The Dance Current)
— Click here to learn more about our fundraising —
The Suites
(House projects)
MEDIA
Suite 1
2nd printing of A Handbook for Ecstatic Survival
Images and texts by world-renowned Canadian choreographer and teacher, David Earle
MEDIA
Suite 4
1st Monologue now online
A series of portraits in sound by Gilles Goyette, taken from unscripted monologues recorded in the intimacy of a noise-insulated bathroom
MEDIA
Suite 7
Preview online
A NOW Magazine “Must See” of the Toronto Contact Festival!
Film by Gilles Goyette, with his original score
Suite 10
In development
Subtitled Why Boxing Can Tell Us More About Who We Are Than Any Other Human Activity on the Planet – by celebrated dancer Bill Coleman
PERFORMANCE
Suite 13
In development
A theatre-in-education and literacy resource exploring works by “zooming in” on single pages, devised by House of ShAkE
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MUSIC
Suite 2
Michael Caplan’s downhome music – classic country, folk, blues, standards – from the Porch of ShAkE and other porches around town and beyond
MEDIA
Suite 5
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Four galleries of original works by Gilles Goyette: The Conceptual Works, My Life in 23 Paintings, Journal Pages and Notebooks, and Paintings
MEDIA
Suite 8
Coming in August
A series of downloadable Short Books for Busy Times on art, music, film and literature by Donald Brackett, author of Yoko Ono: An Artful Life
PERFORMANCE
Suite 11
In development
A serialized apartment-performance by Michael R Caplan using Euripides’ tragedy and original “Unsung Songs,” streamed live
PERFORMANCE
Suite 14
In development
A “Tempest” in a Box, with Instructions – out of which the performance is “unpacked” live by small, gently-rehearsed groups – devised by House of ShAkE
PERFORMANCE
Suite 3
July 24: 2nd annual event
Livestreamed dramatic reading by Michael R Caplan, an annual commemoration of the composer’s 1933 “Re-entry into the Community of Israel”
MEDIA
Suite 6
1st four now online
Gilles Goyette paints in sound, as well as in oils. The Dora Mavor Moore Award-nominated composer for contemporary dance
PERFORMANCE
Suite 9
In development
The first House of ShAkE commission!
An original dance work by David Earle,
to a score by Gilles Goyette
PRINT/MEDIA
Suite 12
In development
Theorizing and discussing "meaning, now" – by Michael R Caplan, author of numerous papers and an essay for an upcoming book
CLIENT SERVICES
OFFICE
Client-contracted design, editing, publishing and production services in print and various media, by House of ShAkE creators and consultants