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Home » Projects » Improviser-in-Residence Program » Improviser-in-Residence Project

Improviser-in-Residence Project

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Each year, IICSI (with support from Musagetes) invites an improvising performer to spend time in Guelph-Kitchener-Waterloo as the Improviser-in-Residence to develop an improvisational community project.

Past Improvisers-in-Residence

Marilyn Crispell (2025)
Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon (2024)
Marianne Trudel (2019-2020)
Jen Reimer & Max Stein (2018) 
Kade L. Twist (2017)
Kid Koala (2016)
Douglas R. Ewart (2015)
Dong-Won Kim (2014)
Rich Marsella (2013)
Miya Masaoka (2012)
Scott Thomson and Susanna Hood (2012)
Jane Bunnett (2011)

Research Library

  • Jesse Stewart & Dong-Won Kim performance (GJFC 2014)
  • Other Stories: Sounding the Future (GJFC 2014)
  • The Art Of Risk: Negotiating Unfamiliar Territory in Large-group Improvisation
  • When Rivers Meet, performance and interviews
  • Crepuscule in Guelph 2016, Douglas R. Ewart & Community Orchestra Inventions
  • Douglas R. Ewart – Guelph Jazz Festival 2015
  • Improviser-in-Residence 2015-16 Douglas R. Ewart, Feedback and Reflections
  • Postcommodity performance (GJFC 2014)
  • Sharing Stories with Kid Koala – Improviser-in-Residence 2016 Promo
  • Sounding the City – Guelph 2018
  • The Share Publication
  • “The Share” Video

Research Partners

  • Carleton University Carleton University
  • The University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia
  • University of Guelph University of Guelph
  • 17, Institute of Critical Studies 17, Institute of Critical Studies
  • Musagetes Musagetes
  • Queen's University Belfast Queen's University Belfast
  • Memorial University Memorial University
  • University of Regina University of Regina
  • McGill University McGill University
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