La Pire Espèce is a brotherhood of merry demiurges, artisans of the extraordinary who are firm believers in hybrids and interminglings. Inspired by the art of clowns, by fairground barkers and puppeteers, its theatre combines raw materials with unbridled imagination, baroque plenitude with surgical precision.
Since 1999, La Pire Espèce has been borrowing techniques from different disciplines such as puppetry, theatre of objects, clowning, cabaret and street theatre. By exploring the creative process, it explores stage conventions and the rules of dramatic narration, and seeks to establish a close complicity with the audience.
La Pire Espèce is also 26 original works, 1 exhibition, 2 street theatre pieces, 7 cabarets and more than 2000 performances. Half of that number was performed abroad during recurrent tours in Europe and around the world. Its work include also 5 Spanish translations, 9 English translations, 1 Korean and Portuguese translatiosn and a bold adaptation for both the deaf and the non-hearing impaired, 7 co-productions in Quebec and in Europe and several professional workshops for theatre artists and teachers.
La Pire Espèce is also a troupe committed to its milieu being both the driving force behind the largest independent theatre ticket subscription network in Canada between 2004 and 2015 – Carte Premières – and a founding member of a creative and performance space for up-and-coming theatre companies – Aux Écuries.
Bio from pire-espece.com , via So Many Bands · ↗
