Elaine Weryshko

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Elaine Weryshko (she/they) is a physical theatre artist and practitioner of live performance space from Mohkínstsis|Calgary. My medium is the poetic body for a Post-Britney world, that I create for it in a practice based out of extensive training in Lecoq physical theatre and a variety of devising methods based in ensemble/group making and dance/movement. I write, perform, produce, design, craft, and kamikaze live events in alternative spaces all over Alberta. Typical projects are inspired for masses and large gatherings, casting between 6 to 32 people. I am interested in creating work that in unimaginable and unreproducible. My work is a vessel to unleash a wild aesthetic of performance and bold surrealism – to celebrate spectacle and the grotesque. Through this physical lens, I have found my voice as protester, punk and artist; an emotional expression which apart from being anarchistic and slightly chaotic, is essentially visual and poetic.
Elaine is the co-Educational Director at the Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry, creator and coordinator of The WunderBriefs series at the Animated Objects Festival and co-curator of, to the AWE, a once reoccurring risk-based performance series in Calgary, and avid self-producer. In the past I have worked with or presented at: The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Alberta Gallery of Art, Mile Zero Dance, Sage Theatre, Springboard Performance, Alberta Gallery of Art, Swallow A Bicycle, Theatre Junction, the Pacitti Company (UK), The Invisible Dog (NYC), and mentored with immersive theatre giant PunchDrunk in their London production A Drowned Man. I have trained around the world at: The London International School of Performing Arts, Dell’ Arte International School of Physical Theatre, The Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance and with the SITI Company NYC Summer Viewpoints Intensive.