Fides Krucker is a founding member of and producer for the interdisciplinary female collective, URGE, which was featured in a one hour television documentary on the CBC's Adrienne Clarkson Presents for their piece She promised she'd bake a pie.... They have just remounted their fourth collectively created show, Trousseau/True Nature, at Factory Theatre. It premiered at Calgary's High Performance Rodeo and the DuMaurier Theatre in Toronto in 2000 and was  nominated for two Dora Awards for the remount in 2002. URGE was invited by Theatre Direct Canada to create a piece on young professional performers for and about grade 7 and 8 girls. And by the way miss… workshopped through the 2003/4 season and premiered November 25^th, 2004, at Harbourfront. It won creation and performance awards and a cash prize for Theatre Direct in the 2005 Dora Ceremonies.

Fides Krucker’s writing on voice/body work has been commissioned and published by the Canadian literary journal Descant and her teaching has been profiled in magazines such as Chatelaine. She has been a speaker at the Subtle Technologies conference at the University of Toronto and was featured on Peter Gzowski’s “Some of the best minds of our time. Krucker currently teaches voice work privately and in groups in Toronto, Regina and for the European Graduate School in Switzerland.

 

In the spring of 2002 she produced, through her company Good Hair Day Productions, The girl with no door on her mouth. This electroacoustic interdisciplinary piece ran for three weeks at Theatre Passe Muraille to sell-out audiences and won two Dora awards.

 

In the fall of 2003, along with pianist Sageev Oore, percussionist Rick Sacks and director Mark Christmann, presented a two week run of A little rain never hurt no one…. This visceral cabaret included music by Schoenberg, Waits, Cohen, Jobim and Prince and was named one of the top ten shows of 2002 by NOW Magazine. The music from the show was recorded in June 2003 for cd release and was nominated for a Dora award. NOW also named Krucker one of the top 10 theatre artists for 2002.

 

Fides was in Rome for seven and a half weeks in the fall of 2003 creating and performing in The Wings of Daedalus – an electroacoustic cyborg opera by composer Maurizio Squillante. It toured France at that time and a second time through Italy in the fall of 2005. She will return in the spring of 2006 to co-create her arias for his upcoming opera Alexander.

 

In January 2004 she wrote, directed and produced CP Salon – an intimate rhythm and blues piece about a man and love and his disability – with performers Kazumi Tsuruoka and Sageev Oore, choreographer Kathleen Rea and designer Laird Macdonald. CP Salon will tour to Regina and Vancouver in May of 2006 along with a diverse abilities workshop.

 

In fall 2005 Fides premiered two new operas in Montreal. The electroacoustic opera L’archange (composer Louis Dufort, librettist Alexis Nouss) was directed by Pauline Vaillancourt for Chants Libres and A Chair in Love (composer John Metcalf, librettist Larry Tremblay) was directed by Keith Turnbull for Le chien qui chante and toured Wales and Ireland.

 

In January 2006, Fides’ current interdisciplinary piece premiered as part of Theatre Passe Muraille’s season. Yours to Break, is about instinct, intimacy and love and uses the language of pop music, boxing, movement and excerpts from Helen Humphreys’ novel Wild Dogs. It features Danny Wild, Fides Krucker, Allen Cole, Rick Sacks and Rob Clutton with the creative assistance of Mark Christmann, Tristan Whiston, Kathleen Rea, Laird Macdonald and Stefano Pirandello. The show has been invited to Wales in the fall of 2006.

 

Fides is currently headed to Rome where she will begin work on the creation of arias for her character, Olympias, in Maurizio Squillante’s new opera “Alexander.” This work will tour in Italy during the fall of 2007.

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