Don’t Ask, Just ‘Connect-the-dots’ Yourself

Connect-the-dots will be held at the Theatre Ste-Catherine on March 12th and March 13th, with one day dedicated to performing arts and another for a mix of sound and music. 

I’ve known Caitlyn Milot, the brainchild behind Connect-the-dots, since our backyards were connected by a small picket fence and a creaky wooden door. Since I’ve known her she’s been working hard towards a promising career in the performing arts. So what happened when I met up with her this past week and learned that she had given up on a solo career in acting? It turns out she hadn’t so much given up on her dreams as she had begun investing in those of others.

Milot, whose hoping to lead a theatre workshop at Concordia sometime soon, decided there weren’t enough performing arts pieces in Art Matters, so she’s devoted March 12th at Theatre Ste-Catherine purely to the spectacle of live performance.

Michaela Dicesare and Jorge Zavagno will team up to do a performance piece based on the tragic life and death of Marilyn Monroe, while Chantria Tram will be putting on a solo performance entitled Gratitude.

In preparation for their first full length production, Lara Kramer and Maria Simone will be burning off a little anxiety by performing at Art Matters, while Sonya Stefan will explore the “absurd irregularities” and clashing egos at a fictional wedding ceremony.

Angèle Lafontaine has no plans to jump ship before performing a dance called Sinking Ship, but don’t hope for a happy ending. While March 12th is dedicated to the performance arts, March 13th will be devoted entirely to sound and spoken word. There’ll be everything from a fusion of Jazz and 20th century classical oriental music to The Portrait Project, a musical vignette about the power of Portraiture.   Meanwhile, Caitlyn Milot hopes to one day combine community development and theatre in her future career plans, and hasn’t given up on resuming her own solo acting career.