Join us for Theatre Encounter’s 2025 STRANGER presentation: IN THE WINDOWLIGHT created by Jo Dickau-Duguay and Lane Sayer
We spend our days looking through windows. Through these membranes, mirrors and walls, we get an unfettered and momentary glimpse into a stranger’s life – a life that we may witness, but is filtered and separated through layers of glass and perspective.
In the windowlight uses physical theatre and film to explore how self-constructed barriers present themselves in people’s lives over the course of a day. Can these barriers be obscured? Can we regain our connection with the strangers in the windowlight?
IN THE WINDOW LIGHT was presented as part of the New Works Double Bill with Theatre Encounter’s mainstage production of RODE HARD & HELL BENT FOR LEATHER, March 26-29, 2025 at the Abattoir Studio @ cSpace King Edward (Calgary AB)
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Jo Dickau-Duguay is an emerging artist residing and creating in Mohkinstsis. She is a current student in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program in dance at the University of Calgary. As a student she has been in performances including Dance @ Noon, TransFoRM, and most recently MainStage. Recent pre-professional works that she has choreographed and performed in include cor et mentem… alongside Lane Sayer, and an interdisciplinary showcase presented by the One Voice Chorus, Sightlessly Connected as part of the University of Calgary’s Alchemy Festival alongside Siena Yee. Jo works primarily in the medium of physical theatre, but is continuing to expand their range of interdisciplinary knowledge.
Lane Sayer (he/they) is an emerging contemporary dance artist from Mohkinstsis, currently pursuing a BA in English from the University of Calgary with an embedded certificate in creative writing and a minor in dance. Alongside the University of Calgary dance program, he has trained with Corps Bara Dance Theatre’s CBII program (Canada) and ORIANTHEATRE Dance Company (France). As a student, Lane has co-choreographed for and performed in One Voice Choir’s interdisciplinary concert cor et mentem… alongside Jo Dickau-Duguay, performed in DSW’s Quick + Dirty festival with LJProductionsYYC, and performed in Ballet Bodies YYC’s In Motion III.
Poster Art by Talia Boardman
WHAT IS STRANGER?
Theatre Encounter’s STRANGER initiative presents the creations of early-career artists and those working on new performance projects outside of the style of Realism. We invite artists from all performance genres and disciplines into our Abattoir Studio to create and present performances that challenge, surprise and delight audiences that are hungry for non-traditional approaches to performance and story.
We accept proposals for STRANGER presentations throughout the year. If you are an artist with an idea for STRANGER, please contact artistic producer Val Duncan (artisticproducer[at]theatreencounter.com) for more information.
Theatre Encounter gratefully acknowledges the support of our funders and sponsors
