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The Suites
Projects by House creators

David Earle "A Handbook for Ecstatic Survival"

PRINT

2nd printing of A Handbook for Ecstatic Survival

Images and texts by world-renowned Canadian choreographer and teacher, David Earle

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MEDIA

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

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MEDIA

Preview online

A NOW Magazine “Must See” of the Toronto Contact Festival!

Film by Gilles Goyette, with his original score

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PRINT

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

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PERFORMANCE

Suite 13

Stage-A-Page

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

Porch Songs

Michael Caplan’s downhome music – classic country, folk, blues, standards – from the Porch of ShAkE and other porches around town and beyond

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MEDIA

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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

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MEDIA

Coming soon

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

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PERFORMANCE

In development

A serialized apartment-performance by Michael R Caplan using Euripides’ tragedy and original “Unsung Songs,” streamed live

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PERFORMANCE

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

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PERFORMANCE

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” 

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MEDIA

1st four now online

Gilles Goyette paints in sound, as well as in oils. The Dora Mavor Moore Award-nominated composer for contemporary dance

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PERFORMANCE

In development

The first House of ShAkE commission!

An original dance work by David Earle,

to a score by Gilles Goyette

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PRINT/MEDIA

In development

Theorizing and discussing "meaning, now" – by Michael R Caplan, author of numerous papers and an essay for an upcoming book

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