Member Directory / Individual
Marie-Claude Labrecque
Occupation:
Puppet designer, Artistic director, Puppet maker, Manipulator, Puppeteer, Stage director, Sculptor
Services Offered:
Conception & fabrication, Teaching, Interprétation & manipulation, Cultural mediation, Stage direction, Restauration & réparation, Set design
Specialty, Field of Activity:
Set design and construction, Puppet design and construction, Mechanism construction, Ambulatory, Événementiel & animation, Play and interpretation, Handheld puppet , Mouth puppet, Rod puppet, Habitable puppet, Tabletop puppet, Giant puppet, Bunraku puppet, Television/film puppet, Cultural mediation, Scenography, Sculpture, Street theatre, Shadow theatre, Pop-up theatre
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© Photo de Sylvie-Ann Paré
Description
Marie-Claude graduated in set design from the École Supérieure de Théâtre in 2004. She has developed her career as a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on puppetry. As a puppeteer, creator, director, and designer-builder, she has contributed to numerous Quebec productions, including collaborations with , Théâtre en l’Air, La Dame de Cœur, Cirque du Soleil, Ex Machina and Théâtre Motus.
She has also worked on various street theater projects ( such as with Les Toxiques Trottoir, Nomades Urbains, Les Vivaces), as well as on television productions, including Slaxx. She was the artistic director of the puppet scenes in the Quebec documentary It’s All Right Michel. For both film productions she also worked as a puppet designer and performer.
Her first puppet show, Bijoux, premiered in 2017 at the Castelier Festival in Montreal. For over 15 years, she has been developing and leading puppet and shadow theater workshops throughout Quebec, reaching increasingly diverse audiences, including children and teens with special needs, as well as seniors.
Marie-Claude is a creative artist who celebrates the beauty of the world by playfully philosophizing with imagery and cultivating worlds with clever mechanisms and uncertain boundaries.
