
About the House
House of ShAkE is a print & digital publishing house, multimedia production house, and play house for live & online events. Welcome!
I’m Michael R. Caplan and House of ShAkE is a home-base for my own work:
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Porch Songs & other down-home music
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Schoenberg's Return, an annual online dramatic reading
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After the Bacchanal, a live/online apartment theatre serial
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Gitte & Lionel, a graphic novel-style telling of my parents' story
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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:
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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
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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
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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 …
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a common-ground construction project
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an inn at the crossroads
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a place for entertaining ideas and … each other!
