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Urge

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The company of 2000's Trousseau - True Nature
(photo: Gariné Torossian)

All-female collective fusionist/ performance art company based in Toronto, Ontario . It was founded in 1993 by Fides Krucker.

Ms Krucker wished to create music theatre performances in a collective of equals; she invited several women from different disciplines to a workshop and the first project was born. The company's name is based on their first production, I Had An Urge to Write You (1993). The pieces are a fusion of sound, voice, text and movement and include their latest work, Trousseau - True Nature, presented in 2000 at Toronto's duMaurier Theatre Centre and at One Yellow Rabbit 's/OYR High Performance Rodeo, She Promised She'd Bake a Pie (1999, also performed at OYR).

The creative process allows performers to work outside of their own disciplines. The productions are based in improvisation and there are no scripts - the performances can be different from night to night. The works treat the concerns of modern womanhood; for instance Trousseau addresses the issues surrounding marriage.

Performers have included Katherine Duncanson, Gabrielle Epstein, and Ms Krucker herself as well of the work of composer Linda Catlin Smith and choreographer Marie-Josée Chartier.

(Additional information provided by Natalie Rewa, Shannon Hengen and Daphne Bain)

Last updated 2009-09-15