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Nathalie Claude is a self-described "actress, director, dancer, choreographer, writer, and a sometimes MC,
Nathalie Claude is a self-described "actress, director, dancer, choreographer, writer, and a sometimes MC, Drag King
Drag kings are mostly female performance artists who dress in masculine drag and personify male gender stereotypes as part of an individual or group routine. A typical drag show may incorporate dancing, acting, stand-up comedy and singing, eit ...
, clown, artistic coach and musician" from Montreal. She works in French and in English and sometimes creates bilingual performances.
She created her first five solos for Studio 303
A studio is an artist or worker's workroom. This can be for the purpose of acting, architecture, painting, pottery (ceramics), sculpture, origami, woodworking, scrapbooking, photography, graphic design, filmmaking, animation, industrial design, ...
in Montreal and toured many of them to Toronto (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a Canadian professional theatre company. Based in Toronto, Ontario and founded in 1978 by Matt Walsh, Jerry Ciccoritti, and Sky Gilbert, ''Buddies in Bad Times'' is dedicated to "the promotion of queer theatrical ex ...
), New York ( Performance Mix Festival and Dixon Place
Dixon Place is a theater organization in New York City dedicated to the development of works-in-progress from a broad range of performers and artists. It exists to serve the creative needs of artists—emerging, mid-career and established—who a ...
), Berlin (Ausland), Florence (Teatro della Limonaia) and Ljubljana (City of Women)." One of her most notable works was ''Le Salon Automate/The Salon Automaton,'' in which she shared the stage with three human-sized robots. Created in 2008 at Montreal's Usine C, it then toured Quebec, and was featured in Buddies In Bad Times
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a Canadian professional theatre company. Based in Toronto, Ontario and founded in 1978 by Matt Walsh, Jerry Ciccoritti, and Sky Gilbert, ''Buddies in Bad Times'' is dedicated to "the promotion of queer theatrical ex ...
' 2009 theatre season, all to great critical acclaim. As a member of the theater collective Momentum, she collaborated with such artists as Céline Bonnier
Céline Bonnier (; born August 31, 1965) is a French Canadian actress from Quebec. She has been nominated for four awards including Genie Awards and Gemini Awards.
Filmography
* 1992: ''Tectonic Plates''
* 1994: ''The Wind from Wyoming (Le V ...
and Lin Snelling
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to generate theatre pieces, including: ''Les Filles de Séléné'' (1999-2001), ''La Fête des Morts'' (2002-2004), and ''Limbes/Limbo'' (2004).
She has been a contributor to two Montreal-based annual queer feminist platforms: '' Le Boudoir','' a lesbian cabaret night which existed from 1994–2006, and ''Edgy Women
The Edgy Women Festival (also referred to as Edgy Redux, Femmes Au-delà or Women from the Edge) was an annual festival of "short, highly physical works by women, often characterized by a transdisciplinary approach and politicized content." which ...
'', a platform for feminist experimental performance which incarnated annually from 1993 - 2016. In addition to this, Claude was a frequent feature of Toronto's Hysteria: A Festival of Women directed by Moynan King at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.
She has also appeared on screen in Canadian produced films such as '' Higglety Pigglety Pop! There Must be More to Life'' and ''The Orphan Muses
''The Orphan Muses'' (french: Les Muses orphelines) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Robert Favreau and released in 2000."Oh what tangled webs we weave: One lie changes the lives of four siblings in the film adaptation of Les Muses Orphelines ...
(Les Muses orphelines).'' On TV, she played for 6 years the character of "Tite-Lène" in the Quebec sitcom '' Km/h''.
Nathalie was a co-designer of an exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: ''JW Waterhouse: The Garden of Enchantment.'' It was "the largest-ever retrospective of works by the celebrated pre-Raphaelite British artist John William Waterhouse." The exhibition was named in ''Canadian Art Magazine'' as one of the top ten exhibitions in Canada in 2009.
Most recently, she toured internationally from 2012 - 2015 with the Montreal-based circus company Cirque Du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil (, ; "Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 Ju ...
, playing Jeeves, the male clown in the show Amaluna
''Amaluna'' was a touring show by Cirque du Soleil. It was created and directed by Diane Paulus and is loosely inspired by '' The Tempest'' by William Shakespeare. It opened in Montréal, Quebec, Canada, on April 19, 2012. The cast is 70% female. ...
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