Neil Cadger, B.A., M.F.A.
Head, Associate Professor, Performance Program
Department of Creative Studies
Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
Office: FIN 153
Tel: 250-807-9349
Email: neil.cadger@ubc.ca
Education:
Master of Fine Arts (Theatre Directing), 1997, University of British Columbia
Diploma, 1984, l’école Jacques Lecoq, Paris, France
Bachelor of Arts (English), 1986, University of British Columbia
Neil Cadger is a performer, director and teacher who graduated from l'école Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France. He founded Wissel Theatre in Gent, Belgium in 1984 and created theatre performances which toured extensively in Europe. He recently co-founded Inner Fish Performance Company with Denise Kenney in order to provide an infrastructure for producing and touring devised performances.
Neil teaches an interdisciplinary, physical approach to performance.
Recent work DIRECTING/PERFORMING/DEVISING
The House at the end of the Road, co-creator/performer; Magnetic North Theatre Festival, Kitchener, 2010 (pitch sessions); Vancouver East Cultural Centre Culture Lab, June 2010
Inner Fish, co-creator/performer, Kelowna 2009
Just Looking, deviser/director, UBC Okanagan 2008
Ground Rules, co-creator/performer, work-in-progress performance Kelowna 2008
This Neck of the Woods, deviser/director, UBC Okanagan 2007
The Cloaker and the Cabinet, with Ramshackle Theatre, co-deviser, Whitehorse and Toronto, August 2007
365 Days/365 Plays, by Suzan-Lori Parks, co-directed with Virginie Magnat, UBC Okanagan, April 2007
machinic phylum, a roaming soundcan orchestra, deviser/performer, Life and Arts Festival, Kelowna, May 2006
stonescansandplants, a sound inhabitation, deviser/performer UBC Okanagan, April 2006
Inbetween Machine, with Masayuki Yasuhara, Yoshihisa Nakano and Jose Gates, deviser/performer Kelowna, 2006
Story, by John Cage performer with Bernard Eylenbosch, Kelowna 2006
No Limits, (National Arts Program) mentor/director, Regina, 2005
Sound Can Fly, performer/deviser with Steve Heimbecker, Sound Travels festival Toronto 2005
Generations, performer with Co. Mossoux-Bonte, France, Belgium 2004-07
24/7, director/deviser, Greystone Theatre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon SK 2004
Biped Dream 2, performer/creator with Michele Sereda, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina SK 2004
Spectacle! Spectacle!, collaborator/instructor, Speeltheatre, Gent, Belgium 2004
The Bacchae, Euripides, director, Greystone Theatre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon SK 2004
Biped Dream 1, performer/deviser with Michele Sereda, Neutral Ground, Regina SK 2003
Spring Awakening/Summer of Love, co-created with Michele Sereda, U of S February 2003
metAmorfine, deviser/director, Greystone Theatre, U of S, February 2002
The Company of Wolves, by Angela Carter. An adaptation of the radio play, deviser/director, Greystone Theatre, U of S, March 2001
The Soldier’s Tale by Stravinsky, Narrator, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, November 2001
Negatovas (dance theatre) by Karine Ponties, deviser/performer Charleroi, Belgium 1999 toured Europe in 2000-01
Last reviewed 
9/16/2011 1:11:50 PM
Click below to view
an excerpt from
Windowind performance.
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Real Media - 1mb
Quicktime Media - 6.9mb
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a 4:44 excerpt from
Inbetween Machine
performance.
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Real Media - 8mb
Windows Media (HiQ) - 74mb
Click below to view a 5:24
excerpt from Soundcan
performance at the Kelowna
Life and Arts Festival,
May 2006.
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Real Media - 9mb
Windows Media (HiQ) - 84mb
Inner Fish
Live Performance 2009
(42mb m4v iPod version)
