Mandoline Hybride was founded in 2007 by Priscilla Guy. Its mandate is to create artworks in which artistic media overlap and influence each other.
Create to evoke an idea and share it, in order to establish a dialogue with our peers, audiences and ourselves. To offer an image and then let us be influenced in return.
Within Mandoline Hybride, Priscilla is able to gather artists that are experts in their field and to offer a professional and stimulating platform for emerging artists to start/continue their artistic investigations. By combining artists from diverse backgrounds, Mandoline Hybride is a strong incubator that cultivates artists’ interests towards other media and opens them to new opportunities. Numerous collaborations between the Mandoline Hybride’s artists have begun through their inter-disciplinary projects with the company. Mandoline Hybride’s fundamental goal is to nurture the art milieu from the inside out.
Since its creation, Mandoline produced SLINKY (dance, theatre, video and music /2008-2009), MOVING INSTALLATIONS (dance improvisation and installation / 2010-2011), STOP ME IF I RUN (dancefilm / 2010), MANDOLINE HYBRIDE CALENDAR (2008-2011), UNDERNEATH THE ICE; YOU (dancefilm / 2011) and AFTER HUNGER (THE END.).
Priscilla Guy creates singular projects that reflect her desire to blur the boundaries between artistic disciplines and tell stories in a poetic and fluid manner.
Priscilla studied contemporary dance at lʼUniversité du Québec à Montréal and then received her BFA Honours in visual arts from Concordia University (Montréal, QC). Throughout her studies, she experimented with video, theatre, clown and different circus techniques. She also participated in several Contact Improvisation and Instant Composition workshops in Montreal, Vancouver (EDAMDance), Toronto and Massachusetts (USA, Earthdance).
In 2007, Priscilla founded Mandoline Hybride with a particular focus on creating artworks in which artistic medias overlap and influence each other.
Priscilla got her Master in Dance from York University (Toronto), with a thesis project focusing on dancefilm and the hybrid role of the creator. She has been a teaching assistant with the York Dance Ensemble, and is also a guest teacher for LʼÉcole Supérieure de Ballet Contemporain de Montréal, where she teaches video-dance, creative process and improvisation for ballet dancers aged 13 to 20.
Since 2008, Priscilla has been a dancer/improviser for Les Imprudanses. Priscilla has also collaborated with several professional dance artists for numerous events in Toronto: Eroca Nicols (DIMBY 2009-2010, Nuit Blanche 2009), Angela Blumberg (Dance Matters 2010). She danced for film director Claudia Hebert in a video-dance project that is being presented in France and Quebec. In June 2010, she collaborated with Out of the Box Productions as a video designer for the remount of Opera Erotique. Together with Kate Nankervis, she launched Intersection Project in September 2010, a site specific performance project that aims to highlight the artists' presence in urban landscapes.
In June 2011, Priscilla started to collaborate with Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser as a video artist and outside eyes for the creation of their new piece Utopia Parkway. She toured with them in the US (Salt Lake City and Chicago).