Olivier Forest | Canada
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Who’s that, what’s that?
Born wild and rowdy, jamming on everything around, he hit his way through his teen years with a taste for loud rock. He broadened his horizons by studying classical percussions in Cegep, then became ambidextrous, using both sides of his brains, in University where he studied jazz drums. He then went head-first into a circus and that encounter forever changed his career. In fact, he still has a red-tainted nose, result of that collision with the circus world. Olivier has also made a specialty in creating music and soundscapes with unusual objects that led him to work in various productions with many theater companies.

The next step for him was to establish his own theater company, Théâtre à Tempo. With this company, he made close to 1500 performances of 10 different shows he all created combining his passions (music, unusual percussion, movement, theater, and clown arts). Those creations led to multiple awards (Bernard Bonnier, Rideau-Roseq, International development, Office jeunesse monde and Opus).

Later, he was officially diagnosed with a rare but extremely serious disease: collecting everything that makes noise. From whoopee cushions to rattles and through a complete scale of horns, he has a collection of more than a thousand unusual noisy objects. In order to fix that disease, he started 15 years ago a therapy called body percussion. Even though he relapsed a few times since then, there has been some encouraging results, as proven by his participation in the last 4 editions of the International Body Music Festivals, in Istanbul, San Francisco, Bali and Paris.

In summary:
All-terrain drums and percussion.
Musical altering and manipulation of objects.
Theater, circus and mainly clown arts.
But he always ends up hitting himself.