OFFTA
Celia Green
ÉDIFICE WILDER | ESPACE VERT
MAY 26, 2025 - 7PM
MAY 27, 2025 - 8PM
Discussion with the artists on May 27
Annual artistic event created on the edge of the Festival TransAmériques (FTA), OFFTA is a festival dedicated to emerging avant-garde creation in live arts. Since 2007, it scans the local artistic landscape in order to highlight creators whose projects trace new avenues in theatre, dance, and performance. The OFFTA grounds its identity on an artistic direction that favors solid and singular approaches, emerging practices, and experimentation.
CONTENT WARNING: nudity, sexual themes, dead fish
Celia Green
Jason
Jason is a solo performance work that tackles themes of transformation, shame, and embodiment from a trans-masculine experience. Using a custom fucked-up men’s suit created by Malcolm Leblanc, a series of objects, and a number of physical tasks, the performer attempts to reach a state of pleasure and freedom.
Choreography and performance Celia Green
Collaboration and dramaturgy Augusto Bitter
Costume designer Malcolm Leblanc
Creation residency The National Ballet of Canada’s Open Space Programme, Toronto Dance Theatre, Toronto Dance Community Love-In, The Rhubarb Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
With the support of Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council
Special thanks to Leslie Green, Lucie Green, Bilal Baig, Celeste Midori, Merlin Simard, Kalale Dalton-Lutale, Ishan Davé, Factory Theatre, Masha Granich, Why Not Theatre, Sara Melvin, Katie Clarke
Celia Green’s practice spans creation, choreography, writing, performance, and care work. He is interested in investigating mundane experiences of the human condition that are messy and challenging, pulling apart these feelings and isolating them through performance. His focus is on creating work that brings people into a clearly articulated universe, no matter how small or large it may be.
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