Experiment Group #8
Team Members
Jordi Pérez i Soldevila
After studying acting and telecommunication engineering in Barcelona, Jordi continued developing his crafts with artists such as Christine Adaire, Carol Rosenfeld, Raimon Molins, the Workcenter, amongst others.
As an actor Jordi has been working in theatre, most of the time with cia. Sargantana, but also in cinema and TV with films such as "Barcelona, nit d'estiu", or series such as "Cites”.
Jordi has written more that 20 plays, “No country for old myth” and “Stan & Owsky” were published in 2013, and “42 dies” in 2022. He has also composed some soundtracks since 2013.
As a director, Jordi created cia. Sargantana 19 years ago. He has also directed with other theatre companies in Barcelona and abroad.
As a researcher, in 2009 he created an acting research group, "La Cuina", where they have been developing the “iam system” (impulse-action motion system).
In 2017, Jordi started “the fractal project” a laboratory focused on the use of technology in the performing arts.
As curator, Jordi has been directing La Vilella theatre in Barcelona from 2013 until the closure in 2019. Since 2016 he has curated “cicle Íntims” in Ripoll.
IG: @ciasargantana @jordiperezso
April Siutong Leung 梁筱彤
April (she/her) is an award-winning playwright, performance creator, and actor who grew up in Hong Kong and is now based in Tkaronto (Toronto). She has worked with many celebrated theatre companies including Blyth Festival, Factory Theatre, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, and fu-GEN Theatre among many others. Her current projects examine emergent and surveillant technologies, identity and relationships (per)formed and sustained through food, and the hybrid nature of the Chinese-Canadian community. April is a recipient of the Ellen Ross Stuart Award and a finalist for Touchstone Theatre’s Flying Start. She is the Artistic Associate at Theatre Passe Muraille.
Alexandra Gorlin-Crenshaw
Alexandra is a musician and multidisciplinary artist. She pursued degrees in piano performance, while also honing skills in singing, arranging, composing, visual and puppetry arts, and teaching. Her performance pieces weave together classical piano works and folk songs, self-accompanied lieder and opera arias, original compositions, projections, shadows, recorded sounds and texts, hand-made puppets, theatre books, and crankies.
Alexandra lives in Montreal. When she is not practicing, creating, or teaching, you may currently find her taking long walks in the city, reading graphic novels, or coaxing her quarantine windowsill of plants to stay alive, just a little bit longer.
Roland Chun Shing Au
Roland was born and raised in Hong Kong. Graduating with honours from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2012. In 2015, Roland settled in K’jipuktuk/Halifax, the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq. Come from an acting background, he has started to work across disciplinary bounds with scenography, projection, installations and performance since 2019. His solo and collaborative works have been performed and exhibited in Hong Kong, Macau, Ireland, Canada and the Czech Republic.
In 2016, Roland and his wife formed Theatre du Poulet, a not-for-profit organization and alternative performance theatre with a commitment to using art as an amplifier to illuminate the contemporary issues related to the societal, environmental and multicultural climate of the world.
As the artistic director and co-founder of Theatre du Poulet, Roland’s work with the company received two awards in 2018 for ‘The Best Newcomer Award’ at the Halifax Fringe Festival and ‘The Theatre Centre’s Emerging Artist Award’ at the SummerWorks Festival in Toronto.
FB/IG: theatredupoulet