PAIGE ALLERTON
CURRICULUM VITAE
Owen Sound (Ontario, Canada)
International Artist and Anthropologist
Co-Director of Manifesto Poetico Laboratory
www.manifestopoetico.com / info@manifestopoetico.com
Paige Allerton is an international performing artist and anthropologist born in Canada.
She is Artistic Director of Manifesto Poetico and Editor of the Laboratory’s research. She directs the company’s department of Anthropology and Content Creation, and the project The Poetics of Survival.
She co-directed The Epic Borders Trilogy, a series of TransPoetico Productions, taking place in Mexico, Northern Ireland, and Canada. Together with Carlos García Estévez, she is in charge of the conception and direction of Manifesto Poetico’s Open Laboratories and pedagogic activity. She is a movement teacher and performs with masks internationally. She is currently touring her solo show “Good Boy” which premiered in Cyprus in June 2017.
She has toured with Manifesto Poetico in Asia, Africa, Europe, North and Central America for pedagogic, performance and research activities.
In 2020 she was co-author, together with Giller Prize winning author, Johanna Skibsrud, of the Johns Hopkins University Press publication, “Manifesto Poetico: Toward new theatrical languages”, as part of the ASAP Journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Together with Carlos García Estévez she has written two chapters for Routledge publications, “Mask Performance for a Contemporary Commedia dell’Arte” for The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte and “Auto-cours, Enquetes, Commandes. A theatre practitioner’s perspective'” for The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq, after being invited based on their international experience as theatre practitioners.
She trained at the School of Jacques Lecoq, the Laboratory for the Study of Movement (LEM) in Paris, at the University of Toronto and with Manifesto Poetico. She is also currently associate artist at the Laboratory for the Study of Movement (LEM) at the school of Jacques Lecoq in Paris.
CURRENT POSSITIONS
Artistic Director of Manifesto Poetico (since 2022)
(Co-Director of Manifesto Poetico 2016 - 2022)
FILMS
2020 - Mama’s Ashes (actor) Almeria, Spain [See Trailer]
2014 - Performance (dancer / interviewee) Toronto, Canada [See Trailer]
ACTOR & THEATRE DIRECTOR
Manifesto Poetico Productions
2022 - If I Listened… (co-director / writer / dramaturge) Canada
2021 - In The Name Of Humanity (co-director / dramaturg) Canada
2020 - That’s Life & Miquel Barceló (co-director) Galway, Ireland
2019 - Belfast 1919 (co-director / dramaturg) Belfast, Northern Ireland
2019 - The Gate Of Hope (co-director/dramaturg) Guadalajara, Mexico
2018 - Pulse (assistant director/co-creator) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2018 - Hann: Voices of a Bay (assistant director/co-creator) Dakar, Senegal
2017 - Good Boy (Performer/Creator) (directed by Carlos García Estévez), Cyprus and Paris, France
2017 - Klassiek van de Toekomst (assistant director and co-creator) Philharmonie Haarlem, NL
2016 - CliniClowns (performed clown in hospitals) NL
WITH OTHER COMPANIES
2017 - Chambre Noire (voice actor / voice-off) (directed by Yngvild Aspeli, a Plexus Polaire Production), Paris, France
2015 - Meeting of European Theatre Academies (META) - Lecture demonstration by the School of Jacques Lecoq and LEM. Florence, Italy
- performance demonstration cast member, clown, larval mask, object manipulation, movement analysis, animals and neutral mask
2015 - Je suis toi - Paris, Young Arts Paris PETRICHOR - duo collective creation - inspired by Paris Charlie Hebdo attacks
2014 - You are invited to the cast party after the production formally known as Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - Toronto, Canada
- devised collective creation
- adaptation of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Directed by Banuta Rubess
2013 - Climate Rush - devised solo show. Toronto, Canada
- inspired by Ai Wei Wei’s exhibit: According to What? - participatory and site-specific
2013 - A Clown Show - collective creation. Toronto, Canada
- directed by Leah Churniak (Lecoq Alumna)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2019 - Spatial Dramaturgy & The Four Dimensions, at the School of Jacques Lecoq - Paris, FR
- Manifesto Poetico Open Laboratory
2018 - Spatial Dramaturgy: Three-Dimensional Awareness, at the School of Jacques Lecoq - Paris, FR
- Manifesto Poetico Open Laboratory
2017 - Research exploration at l'École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Val de Seine- Paris, FR
- Manifesto Poetico masterclass on the physical embodiment of 3-Dimensional space for architecture students to give an embodied experience of design in the here an now - to explore how the space shapes the experience lived insid
2017 - Mask 3D - Manifesto Poetico Summer workshop - Lecoq Lees Studio, Paris, FR
- mask performance training for multi-style 3 dimensional theatre.
- mask making training for plastic understanding of 3-dimensionality, abstraction, forces, structure and movement
2017 - CliniClowns App - Amersfoort, NL
- manipulation of elementary forms
- for hospital clown over video-call application
2017 - CliniClowns Annual Company Training - Amersfoort, NL - hospital clown training
- introduction to analysis of movement (movement phrase), gestures and creation
2017 - Contemporary Commedia dell’Arte for actor’s training - ARTEZ Arnhem, NL - university program first years’ training
2016 - Operação Nariz Vermelho - Lisboa and Oporto, PT
- hospital clown training using Contemporary Commedia dell’Arte
2016 - Introduction to Expressive Mask - Upper Canada College, Toronto, CA
2016 - Clown: Theatrical Architecture - Paris
- Assistant of Manifesto Poetico summer workshop
2016 - Contemporary Commedia dell’Arte - Paris - Manifesto Poetico summer workshop
2016 - CliniClowns Annual Company Training - Amersfoort, NL - hospital clown training
- introduction to space, perspective, passions and patterns
2015 - Contemporary Mask Performance - Paris
- Assistant of Manifesto Poetico summer workshop
2007-17 - Ballroom and Latin Dance teacher
PUBLICATIONS
Co-editor of the chapter “Auto-cours, Enquetes, Commandes. A theatre practitioner's perspective” by Carlos García Estévez for “The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq”.
- Ed. Mark Evans and Rick Kemp, Routledge Publishers August 2016
Co-Editor of ASAP Journal “Manifesto Poetico Research on Theatrical Languages: SPATIAL DRAMATURGY” (Number MAY 2020). Written by Johanne Skibsrud
EDUCATION
2011 - 2016 - Manifesto Poetico Apprenticeship and Training
- Contemporary mask performance
- Devised Theatre
- Object manipulation
- Research into Space, Form and Movement - Teacher’s training
2014-16 - École International de Jacques Lecoq, Paris
2014-15 - Laboratoire d’Étude du Mouvement (LEM), Paris
2012-13 - Fujiwara Dance Inventions
- Butoh Voice Intensive (4 weeks)
- with Denise Fujiwara and Gerry Trentham
2011-15 - Linklater Voice Technique Training
2010-14 - University of Toronto
- Honours Bachelor of Arts with High Distinction
- Anthropology
- Theatre
OTHER SKILLS
- 25 years of Ballroom and Latin Dance experience
- Contemporary Dance and Contact Improvisation
- Butoh Dance
- Dance for film
- Linklater Voice technique
- Basic Piano and Drumming
LANGUAGES
English, French and Spanish