CAI GLOVER
Co-artistic director & co-choreographer of 9.2
Co-creator for the company’s new production, ÊTRE.
A long-time collaborator as a performer in several of the company’s creations, Cai has also held various roles within Cas Public, including dancer representative, artistic assistant, and choreographer for certain sections of Love me Tender (2020). After more than a decade with Cas Public, he left the company in 2021.
An unconventional artist in a world of hearing individuals, he now actively pursues work as a choreographer while still occasionally performing. Through the projects of his company, A FICHU TURNING, he has developed a personal style that eloquently and poetically explores questions of language, identity, and inclusion, particularly focusing on a cause close to his heart: Deaf culture. In 2024, he returns to Cas Public to work alongside Hélène as co-artistic director and performer in the choreographic work 9.2. Building on this new experience, Cai Glover will also take on the role of co-creator for the company’s new production, ÊTRE.
Cai Glover about 9.2
The work itself was born from a desire to represent certain realities of a hard-of-hearing existence, captured alongside the music of a composer who lost his hearing. Since the company stopped touring the piece, and as my interactions with Deaf and hard-of-hearing communities have grown, I’ve come to realize just how significant this work is. Despite its creation in 2016, it feels even more relevant today. I trust in the conversations that will inevitably arise from bringing 9 back to the stage as 9.2, and I have confidence in my shared role in steering its renewal.
Cas Public receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts de Montréal.
Suites ténébreuses / The Monsters is a creation of Cas Public in co-production with Lucie Bazzo et l'Agora de la danse de Montréal. This production has benefited of a creation residency at l’Agora de la danse de Montréal.
Not Quite Midnight is a creation of Cas Public in co-production with l'Agora de la danse, Alma SPECTACLES and Theatro Cucinelli of Solomeo. It received a creative residency at Agora de la danse, Maison de la culture Frontenac, Maison de la culture Mercier, University of Kent and Teatro Cucinelli of Solomeo.
9 is a creation of Cas Public, in co-production with Kopergietery, Spect'Art Rimouski and Place des Arts in Montreal. This creation has benefited from a creative residency at Place des Arts (Montreal), Maison de la culture Frontenac (Montreal), Kopergietery (Ghent), Le Tarmac - la scène internationale francophone (Paris) and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
Suites curieuses is a creation of Cas Public, in co-production with Places des Arts of Montreal. This creation has benefited from a creative residency at Place des Arts of Montreal, La Maison de la culture Rosemont - La Petite Patrie and La Maison de la culture Mercier.
Symphonie dramatique is a creation of Cas Public, in co-production with the Méli'Môme Festival, Opéra de Reims, Théâtre du Bic, Opéra de Sains-Etienne and the Maison des Arts de Créteil. This creation has benefited from creative residencies at l'Agora de la danse, Maison de la culture Frontenac and TOHU.