Company
Artistic Approach
DynamO Théâtre has been part of Quebec’s young people’s theatre landscape for over 40 years.
With its 25 original productions performed all over the world for more than 1.5 million spectators, the company undeniably contributes to renewing the practice in theatre for young audiences. Its unique approach challenges, reflects and defines the art of acrobatic movement and clowning in theatre by carrying on its work with the same fieriness and passion it had when it began in 1981.
Its work method is based on in-rehearsal playwriting.
It searches, explores and creates using bodies in space, in the same way a playwright does with words on a blank page. Its playwriting is therefore carried out on a stage and collaborators are invited throughout the creative process. This type of theatre involves risk-taking. Over the years, the company developed a unique physical vocabulary, method and language, all of which have fashioned the company’s signature style. It deals with rhythms, speeds, scale, fixed points, momentum, freeze and acrobatics … We speak movement! Yet, the company keeps highlighting dramaturgy, that of bodies as well as that of words. In rehearsal, the ever-evolving scriptwriting is enhanced and each new production demonstrates it.
The company wants to offer daring theatre to wide-ranging audiences -children, teenagers and families- and tell stories that will thrill them both physically and emotionally by considering the world through a whole range of movements, images and text. The playground is large and wide and the company’s greater ambition is to touch the hearts of humans, young and old.
Artistic Directors
Andréanne Joubert
Artistic Director
Andréanne Joubert is a passionate multifaceted artist. Working as an actor and acrobat since 2003, she travels the world with different companies (DynamO théâtre, La Tête de pioche, Nuages en pantalon, Satellite Théâtre, Cirque du Soleil, and Ex Machina.)
In 2013, she wrote and directed her first play, Noyade(S), with Jean-François Guilbault at Samsara théâtre. Published by Lansman Éditeur, the text won the 2014 Louise-Lahaye Prize and the first ever Marcel-Dubé Prize in 2017. Her second children’s play, La forêt des possibles, written after winning the Prix pour l’écriture pour les jeunes publics et la relève théâtrale, is published by the same publisher.
At DynamO Théâtre, she was part of the second cast of Moi…moi…moi! and then of Il était trois fois. She then worked on Nous sommes mille en équilibre fragile, Devant moi le ciel and Ceux qui n’existent pas as a creator/performer. After 18 years of work with DynamO as an actress, a new challenge is now open to her: in the fall of 2021, she will take the helm as co-artistic director of the company alongside Yves Simard.
Andréanne is interested in youth audiences as well as the adults who accompany them. She wishes to offer, to both, a reality inhabited by more poetry, magic and audacity.
Yves Simard
Artistic Director
Yves Simard is an actor, scriptwriter and director. He has performed in many productions with companies such as Carbone 14, Les Deux Mondes and Dulcinée et cie. He also worked as a dramaturg for the Cirque du Soleil Wintuk production in New York City. For 23 years, he worked as a director, cowriter and puppeteer with the Théâtre de la Dame de Cœur company. As DynamO Théâtre’s coartistic director since 2008, he has performed in The Challenge, Echoes of the River, Misstart, a production for stage clowns, Ghosts and ladders, The big bad wolf and Inner Migrant. He wrote and directed I on the sky, The Nonexistent and Life-Cycle. He also co-wrote and performed in Patrice Balbina’s Chance encounter with the end of the world, a creative project stemming from the Documents of Poverty and Hope project. He leads major theatre-mediation projects in the Montreal-area schools as well as with the Marphy’s Play House in Chengdu, China.
For Yves, the young audience is one to whom you do not lie. He wants to share his passion for theatre research and development with them while appealing to their imagination.