About the House

I’m Michael R. Caplan and House of ShAkE is a home-base for my own work: 

• Porch Songs & other down-home music

• Schoenberg's Return, an annual online dramatic reading

• After the Bacchanal, a live/online apartment theatre serial

• Gitte & Lionel, a graphic novel-style telling of my parents' story

• One Full Revolution: Meaning Now, essays about our challenge today

House of ShAkE is also a home-away-from-home for creators with projects in the “House style” – currently:

• A Handbook for Ecstatic Survival, by choreographer & master teacher David Earle – co-founder of Toronto Dance Theatre, founder of Dancetheatre David Earle, Member of the Order of Canada

• The Random Generated Text Project, Lost in Light and Sound Paintings, works in a variety of media by artist & poet Gilles Goyette – whom we very sadly lost to cancer in February

• Prepare for the Truth: Why boxing can tell us more about who we are than any other human activity on the planet, by Bill Coleman, cosmic-comic dancer & choreographer, winner of the Canada Council Jacqueline Lemieux Prize and the Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the  Performing Arts

And House of ShAkE is my life's work. I like to think of it as …

• a common-ground construction project

• an inn at the crossroads

• a place for entertaining ideas and … each other!