pounds per square inch performance | 30th Anniversary Season
Gerry Trentham, Artistic Director
NEWS & UPCOMING
Elements of Presence
April 11 & 12 and May 16 & 17, 2026
Mornings 10 am - 1 pm // Afternoons 2 pm - 6 pm
Centre for Indigenous Theatre // 180 Shaw Street, 2nd Floor, Toronto
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Elements of Presence is a four session series containing structured and unstructured practices in movement and voice which serve to cultivate and encourage the participants' relationship with their present and prospective creative work.
Gerry Trentham and Cat Montgomery are seasoned creators and facilitators in the sectors of dance, music, performance, voice, film and devised theatre. They employ the maxim KIND RIGOUR in both their respective artistic practices and their approach as facilitators in a studio setting; the studio space is governed with the keen intention to: Support. Erupt. Engage. Conceive.
Photo by Lorraine Parow courtesy of the Moving Voice Institute
New Dates!
El Armando Centro, Argentina & lbs/sq'" performance, Canada
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International Voice Intensives
Buenos Aires (BAVI)
Now is the Time | El Momento es Ahora!​
​Limited Enrollment
Movement | Voice | Speech
June 1 - 6, 2026: One Week
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Breath | Body | Voice
January 9 - 23, 2027: Two Weeks
Join groundbreaking International Voice intensives in Argentina, where internationally acclaimed teaching artists explore the moving body, voice and text as inseparable and fundamental to the performance of spoken language. Drawing on a diverse range of pedagogical lineages — from Shakespearean verse to clown, from somatic movement to resonant breath — this workshop offers a rare opportunity to study with a consortium of leading practitioners from Canada, the U.S., and Argentina.
​June 8 - 16, 2026
The Lunatic Project
Armando Centre, Buenos Aires
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​Initial research began in a residency at the Armando Centre in Buenos Aires in January 2025 and returns this June 8th - 16th to begin a second round of residences. Following the threads of the work in residency last august at Middlebrook Arts Research + Residency Center in the Catskills of NY and last fall in Tkaronto choreographer Gerry Trentham and sculptor Kaersten Colvin-Woodruff prepared for a recent two weeks residency from March 16 - 26 Clarion University in Pennsylvania. During the two weeks in Clarion the two long time collaborators had a chance to really "smash" their art forms together finding deeper and more essential interactive content between sculpture, text and dance in a section of the work inspired by one of four "traveler" archetypes - The Alchemist.
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​As a seminal project in Trentham’s fifth decade as a queer performer and artist, The Lunatic draws inspiration from the third and final stage of life described by Jungian psychologist and art critic Graham Jackson as the evolution of the “youthful golden messenger” into the “lunatic” whose air-like invisibility is difficult to hear or see.
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Next we head to residencies in Argentina in June, the Catskills in August and to Toronto in the fall where Gerry will refine performance material with his coach and dance dramaturge Denise Fujiwara. Stay tuned - we will invite you see the work in development ...soon.
The New Fulcrum Project (NFP) 2025/2026
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The New Fulcrum Project, or NFP, is a research project aimed at examining how solo-driven artists/art companies can create networks of connection that can be sustained through the creation of artistic work. As part of the lbs/sq" 30th Anniversary Season, the audience engagement event was a tangible practice of cooperation encouraging co-conscious collaboration determined based on the cohort’s research findings- a creative experiment utilizing the cohort’s shared values and unique visions.
This research is generously supported by the Metcalf Foundation.
With Producer/Lead Researcher Shivani Joshi and Assistant Producer/Researcher Clarke Blair under the guiding energy of our Artistic Director Gerry Trentham.​
Thank you for joining the artists June 19, 2025, Summer Solstice Weekend - when light lingers, as they introduced their work as part of the New Fulcrum Project with Natasha Ama Eck, Lucy Rupert, Mutya Macatumpag, Cat Montgomery, Trevor Copp, Tiffany Thomas, Miriam Cummings,​
Nasiv Kaur Sall and Lauren Runions.