Alaine Hutton is a performer and deviser. Alaine received training at the University of Toronto’s drama program, École International de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France. There she was also able to study design and mise en scène with Pascale Lecoq in the Laboratoire d’Etude de Mouvement (LEM). Alaine continues to train in Toronto with Fides Krucker ‘emotionally integrated voice’ and with Denise Fujiwara in butoh based embodiment. With Lester Trips she creates devised theatre with rigorous dramaturgy featuring a bouffonesque approach to character and intense physicality and vocalization stemming from our training in butoh dance and extended range vocal practice.

Alaine is also a company member of Open Heart Surgery Theatre, who will be touring, This Is Why We Live, which has been performed in Toronto at the Theatre Centre in 2017, and in Paris, France in 2015. Now they are traveling to Poland as part of the Czeslaw Milosz Festival in Krakow June 2018, and then to LAMA Experimental Theatre in New York City in 2019.

Selected Credits Dancer in Moving Parts (Fujiwara Dance Inventions, choreo. Denise Fujiwara); Performer in This is Why We Live (Open Heart Surgery, dir. Coleen MacPherson); Aunt Em, Idiot, Golem, Tree lady, Fawn in Intangible Trappings (Lester Trips (Theatre), dir. ted witzel), Martha in The Misunderstanding (Lester Trips (Theatre), dir. Lauren Gillis); Brigade in FIREraisers (the red light district, dir. Lauren Gillis)