Bio

Ève.

The name my parents gave me feels quite charged. One day I shall write a book, or a play, which takes Eve beyond Good and Evil, and beyond the fear and guilt she contracted when she tasted the forbidden fruit of consciousness.

Now for a bit of Chronology:
I grew up in Québec city.. (Uh.. How detailed do we want this whole thing, really?) and.. well, my childhood is filled with blessed memories of family and friends, going through all the events in a young girl's life. I fell in love deeply, from a young age, and in retrospect I can see that I've always had a very strong yearning for the other.

At thirteen I was completely in love with soccer. Soon it became the life-stream, which would then carry me for an entire decade. My friends and I used to say: "eat, sleep, play soccer". In high school I attended a Sport-Études, where we had classes in the mornings and trained every afternoon. Countless hours of playing with that spherical object. I think I loved soccer for three reasons: simplicity, universality, and the experience of team spirit. I would spend hours juggling in my backyard, telling myself that the sphere represented endless potential and that I could achieve anything with just enough practice and discipline.



I got a scholarship to play for Virginia Commonwealth University, so I left the home of my parents at 18 years old, to go live in Richmond, VA. 
Classes started a couple of weeks before the events of September 11. Looking back I realize how fateful it was for me to step into the belly of the American beast at that very moment. What happened that day colored an entire decade of world politics, which I happened to delve into with a passion.
In 2005 I received my B.A. in International Politics, with a minor in Philosophy, from the University of Maine in Orono. By that time I was beginning to fall out of love with soccer. It had become a job, I had given my everything. Now I wanted to explore other aspects of myself.

In the Honors program I got very stimulated intellectually. I spent most of my time reading and thinking about existentialism, political and environmental philosophy. I made good friends with the river and the trees. I took a lot of photos. In the end I wrote my honors thesis as a utopian fiction piece, entitled 'Antitheses'. I'd spent two and a half years musing over a lot of utopian and anarchist theory (Bakunin, Kropotkin, Proudhon, the Spanish Revolution, the Zapatistas, and so on.) and wanted to set forth a vision, in the form of a imaginative synthesis, rather than write a traditional argumentative essay which defends some specific position as supposedly superior to another. That was part of my point: it's all good. (I'd also encountered the Tao te Ching.)

Summer 2005. Roadtrip across the USA, destination L.A. for a couple of weeks with friends before moving to San Francisco for the summer. I had obtained an internship with Global Exchange, and rapidly found a job as a barista as well as an apartment... so my two months turned into six months... which turned into six years. I'm not too sure what happened there; I just stepped in the river and it took me for a ride. When people ask me why I came to SF in the first place, I tell them that the short answer is Janis Joplin. I was pulled by the energy of the 60s, that revolutionary spirit, that gold rush of sorts. I wanted to dwell at the end of the New World, to ingest the wisdom bubbling there at the edge. Events unfolded and led me to enroll at the California Institute for Integral Studies to get my M.A. in some esoteric program called 'Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness' (I had fallen in love and felt bold enough to take up that loan). I had found about the program through the internet, searching for ''East + West + philosophy''. I wanted to study the connections between Eastern thinking and the philosophy of Nietzsche. I also hoped I would find an environment where I could do philosophy with my heart. I would not be disappointed.
CIIS is a wonderful academic institution, as well as a powerful alembic for transformation. My time there (and the fact that I was in a very, let's say, dynamic relationship at the same time) allowed for a lot of new psychological and spiritual grounds to emerge. I only wrote a couple of papers on Nietzsche: 'Krishna meets Zarathustra', and 'The Meaning of the World'. I did not so much become an specialist as I broadened even more my system of thought. The Integral Ecology concentration allowed me to delve deeper into the field of Eco-psychology and helped me to understand the psychological roots of the environmental crisis. I also discovered archetypal astrology, à la Rick Tarnas, and found inspiration and grace in working within a holistic mindset. I found a tribe of like-hearted folks. 

For my Integrative seminar I decided to explore the presence and unfolding of the trickster archetype throughout my life. I had just taken a first step with theater and clowning. I graduated (2009) concluding that I would push further the exploration down from the head into the heart, integrating physical theater and clowning as embodied practices to effect subtle emotional changes in the world.

I thus entered the SF Circus Center's Clown Conservatory in the Fall of 2010. I was finally taking the steps to acknowledge and express myself as an artist. Lots of growth here again. The process culminated in a project called 'HE: a genderstrange clown duo', which Harvey Rabbit and I took to Berlin in the Fall of 2011.

I had decided to come back to my roots, back to Québec (the province, not the the city)... via a slight detour through Europe. I had been going through that process for years: healing my relationship with myself so I could heal my relationship with my homeland.
Upon return I set out to settle... I decided I would become a teacher and enrolled in school again. I finished my degree in Dec. 2013 and ... got hired to teach Political Science at the Cégep of Gaspé, the following January!