Bio
Comédienne, marionnettiste et metteure en scène, Carolina a un intérêt marqué pour l’interculturalité et la diversité au théâtre. À Montréal, Carolina est marionnettiste au spectacle « Furioso » du Théâtre de l’Œil (mis en scène par Simon Boudreault et texte d’Olivier Kemeid) et a présenté le spectacle solo « Tales from the wind », texte et mise en scène d’Amauri Falseti, au Théâtre Centaur (TD Saturday Morning Children’s Series). Carolina a fait l’assistance à la mise en scène du spectacle in-situ « Fragments d’Ana », mis en scène par Ligia Borges, coproduction du Théâtre de l’Intime et du M.A.I. (Montréal, arts interculturels). En 2020, Carolina cofonde avec Cleo da Fonseca le Théâtre de la flamme, récipiendaire de trois résidences pour le projet de recherche-création « La floraison des souvenirs » – une résidence aux Réseaux Accès Culture, une autre au Cube et la Résidence de recherche-création pour la diversité culturelle en nouvelles pratiques artistiques du CAM en partenariat avec le Théâtre aux Écuries. Pour l’étape de recherche-création, le projet a eu les subventions du CAM et du CAC et pour l’étape de production, les subventions du CAM, du CALQ et CALQ.
Agenda
Furioso – Théâtre de l’Œil
Presentations in April 2023 in St-Hyacinthe, Sorel-Tracy and Richelieu. Presentations in May 2023 in St-Georges-de-Beauce.
Text: Olivier Kemeid
Direction: Simon Boudreault
Scenography and puppets: Richard Lacroix
Music: Michel F. Côté
Light design: Gilles Perron
Actors: Carolina Chmielewski, Juan Arango, Mathieu Aumont et Simone Latour Bellavance.
Poster by « Passerelle bleue »
La floraison des souvenirs – Théâtre de la flamme
- Project in production stage
- Public laboratory to closed audience : July 7th, 2023
- Première : October 15th, 2023
Art direction: Carolina Chmielewski and Cleo da Fonseca
Dramaturgy: Patricia Rivas and Carolina Chmielewski Tanaka
Director: Karine St-Arnaud
Performers and puppeteers: Carolina Chmielewski, Cleo da Fonseca and Simone Latour-Bellavance
Design and construction of the puppets: Jesse Grindler and Cleo da Fonseca
Scenography design: Elisabeth Bosquet
Lighting design: Sara Sabourin
Sound and musical design: Marthe Halvorsen
Dramaturgy adviser: Marie Christine Lê-Huu
Scenography Advisor and Technical Direction: Wanderson Santos
Production Manager: Catherine Alepin
Works
Actor
Furioso
Théâtre de l’Œil
Text: Olivier Kemeid | Direction: Simon Boudreault
Recommended Ages: 8 – 12
2020 – Residence at Théâtre de la Ville (Longueuil, QC – Canada)
Orlando, knight of the North, and Abderam, knight of the South, are both in love with a Chinese princess, Yuhuan. Sequestered by the northern camp, Yuhuan managed to escape. Orlando and Abderam, those reckless men, abandon the war and go in search of her. The king of the South, panicking with the idea of losing his battle general, sends his fighter Malek to bring Abderam back. In the meanwhile in the North, the knight Bradamante, in love with Abderam – her enemy of the South – goes in search of him. In short, everyone runs after everyone for all kinds of reasons, preventing two worlds from tearing apart. A thousand and one twists and turns happen with a hippogriff, a sea killer whale and a magician who HATES princesses.
(Photo: Michel Pinault)
Tales From the Wind (solo)
Cia Paideia
Text and direction : Amauri Falseti
Recommended Ages: 7+
2019 – Centaur Theatre (Montreal, Canada)
In this one-person show, a drifter from a distant land tells the stories she has heard in her travels. The wind has carried these stories from different parts of the world, such as India and Cameroon. These are stories about families, hope, disputes, and overcoming; and stories that bring with them the wisdom carried from one generation to another. Inspired by the epic theatre of Bertolt Brecht and Peter Brook, the play explores the potential of the storyteller and provides a fertile ground for imagination.
(Photo: Ninguém dos Campos)
A Voz do Morro – Un voyage au cœur de la samba
Le Chœur Scénique Brésilien
Text and direction : Taia Goedert and Auro Moura
For all ages
2019 – Salle Sylvain-Lelièvre (Montreal, Canada)
A Voz do Morro tells the story of samba and its trajectory from the first officially recorded samba songs. Through almost fifty songs, the show brings to the public a facet of samba little known outside of Brazil.
(Photo: Denis Martin)
Caso Perdido
Cia Paideia
Text and direction : Amauri Falseti
Recommended Ages: 12+
2017 – Paideia Cultural Association (Brazil)
The play shows a series of scenes where the youth is the protagonist. Their pains and their dreams. Inspired by scenes from Antigone, Shakespeare, Fernando Sabino, Svetlana Alexijevich, others inspired by real stories. The show brings together the actors from Cia. Paideia and the 70 young people from Experience in Theatre Course from Paideia and the stage will be transformed in a tribune.
(Photo: Laura Jorge)
Histórias que o Vento Traz
Cia Paideia
Text and direction : Amauri Falseti
Recommended Ages: 6+
2017 – Paideia Cultural Association (Brazil)
Four drifters from a distant lands tell the stories they had heard in their travels. The wind has carried these stories from different parts of the world, such as India, Cameroon and Ethiopia. These are stories about families, hope, disputes, and overcoming; and stories that bring with them the wisdom carried from one generation to another. Inspired by the epic theatre of Bertolt Brecht and Peter Brook, the play explores the potential of the storyteller and provides a fertile ground for imagination.
(Photo: Ninguém dos Campos)
O Sal e o Amor
Cia Paideia
Text and direction : Amauri Falseti
Recommended Ages: 7+
2016-2017 – Paideia Cultural Association (Brazil)
Inspired by a Turkish legend, the play tells the story of Yildiz, the youngest daughter of a powerful Sultan, who decides to ask his three daughters how much love they feel for him. The older daughters manage to please their father by making comparisons with gold and diamonds, but Yildiz, unable to measure her love, fails to please the Sultan, who furiously turns Yildiz’s life into a dangerous challenge.
(Photo: Dani Sandrini)
Círculo de Giz
Cia Paideia
Text: Armin Petras | Direction : Amauri Falseti
Recommended Ages: 10+
2015-2016 – Paideia Cultural Association (Brazil)
2015 – Jungen Schauspielhaus (Düsseldorf, Germany)
2015 – Grips Theater (Berlin, Germany)
The play shows the child’s point of view on the adults’ world. A sick boy decides to stage and direct a play that represents the story of his life. Choose a fable from ancient Chinese times. Within this play, his mother and the other adults will be the actors. This play premiered in Berlin and is the end of the five-year exchange between the Grips Theater from Berlin and Cia. Paideia.
(Photo: Thiago Leite)
O Boi e o Burro
Cia Paideia
Text: Norbert Ebel | Direction : Amauri Falseti
Recommended Ages: 4+
2015-2016 – Paideia Cultural Association (Brazil)
On a cold winter night, in a stable in Bethlehem. An ox, shaking off the cold, returns cheerfully to its warm stable, to eat its well-deserved dinner … when he discovers a foreign body in his manger. What will it be? The donkey arrives and it starts a well-known story with great humor, but from a very different point of view: from the perspective of an ox and a donkey.
(Photo: Yohanna Rodrigues)
A Caixa Encantada
Cia Paideia
Text and direction : Amauri Falseti
Recommended Ages: 5+
2014-2016 – Paideia Cultural Association (Brazil)
This play was also presented in several public schools and libraries.
Aline discovers the school’s abandoned library and there she will come across a small part of humanity’s treasure. As if by accident, as if by an enchantment, she meets characters from legends, stories and fairy tales. In these meetings, she gets to know new worlds, new frontiers and herself. She discovers the power of her imagination and from what comes out of the books.
(Photo: Thiago Leite)
EVOL – Love Backwards
TeArt Theater Group
Text and direction : Sunny Sharankova, Elena Perez and Evangelos Lalos
Recommended Ages: 14+
2011-2012 – Theater Huset (Copenhagen, Denmark)
LOVE… The worst thing about love is that it ends… But what if love would end with the beginning? TeArt Theatre Group this time plays with LOVE in a very unconventional manner: Playing a love story from the end to the beginning. No, correction: Playing ‘the story of love’, because this story is not the typical story about she and he. Different couples using verbal and non verbal theater will take you through the amazing, sad, exciting, passionate, crazy and evol…world of love.
(Photo: New Photography Copenhagen by Aris)
Assistant Director
Fragments d’Ana
Théâtre de L’Intime
Text: Patricia Rivas | Direction : Ligia Borges
Recommended Ages: 12+
2019 – MAI – Montréal, arts interculturels (Montreal, Canada)
Fragments d’Ana is a celebration of life and memory. Falling somewhere between reality and fiction, the show subtly and poetically explores the space of solitude, while appealing to our capacity for connection. We are plunged into the innermost thoughts of Ana, a character who struggles gently against forgetting. The microcosm of her house invites us into a reflection on the passage of time, love, and the inevitability of death. Site-specific theatre.
(Photo: Thibault Carron)
Videos
FURIOSO – Théâtre de l’Œil – Bande annonce/Teaser (français)
FURIOSO – Théâtre de l’Œil – Trailer (English)
Les contes à relais XXI – Ti-Jean et le cheval blanc
Tales From the Wind
O Sal e o Amor
Círculo de Giz
O Boi e o Burro
Press
“We try to provoke and invite critical thinking and reflection. This need comes from an urgency to connect theatre and society, what is crucial in theatre for young people.”
Behind the Curtain: Tales from the Wind with Carolina Chmielewski – February 1, 2019
“On entre dans la maison de quelqu’un pour la première fois un peu comme on entre dans sa vie. (…) De ce partage de l’intime et des petits riens de la vie peuvent émerger des relations fécondes.”
«Fragments d’Ana»: souvenirs morcelés – September 28, 2019
“Amour, nostalgie, solitude, espérance, bienveillance, authenticité et générosité. La performance des artistes est pleine de sensibilité et de délicatesse.”
«Fragments d’Ana»: expérience partagée entre acteurs et spectateurs – September 28, 2019
“The shared experience has become part of our everyday work: we wanted this work to become more international, more intercultural, closer to the children’s needs and to contemporary artistic expressions.”
A field of artistic experiment – Brazil meets Germany: 2011-2016 (about the 5 years partnership between Cia. Paideia and Grips Theater – Show Círculo de Giz) – ASSITEJ Magazine 2017 – pages 46-48.
Contact
Carolina Chmielewski
✉ carolina.chmi@gmail.com