RADIOMATON – Maison de la culture de Pointe-aux-Trembles
Installed in an individual photo booth type booth, and equipped with headphones broadcasting local opinion radio, each RADIOMATON user must repeat aloud all the words he/she hears. Simultaneously, he/she imitates a gestural score displayed on the screen, interpreted by performers Rachel Harris, Sylvain Lafortune or Bernard Martin, and constructed from these gestures that we make […]
Marie Béland presents the pitch for “Beside” at Spotlight Canada in Edinburgh
Marie Béland is one of the Canadian artists invited to pitch her piece “Beside” during Spotlight Canada, an event that is happening as a part of the Fringe Festival, n Monday, 22 August, at 10am. If you’re at Edinburgh, come to listen!!!
RADIOMATON / PRÉ-PREMIÈRE (OFF-FTA Circuit-Est)
Installed in an individual photo booth type booth, and equipped with headphones broadcasting local opinion radio, each RADIOMATON user must repeat aloud all the words he/she hears. Simultaneously, he/she imitates a gestural score displayed on the screen, interpreted by performers Rachel Harris, Sylvain Lafortune or Bernard Martin, and constructed from these gestures that we make […]
Conference-demonstration BESIDE (OFF-FTA Circuit-Est)
BESIDE is the third work in a trilogy led by Montreal choreographer Marie Béland, which explores how we relate to others. Using real-time fake news, BESIDE relies entirely on the radio stations of each city in which the play is performed. Performers can only repeat what they hear on the radio into their headphones, they […]
Showcase All in All – BOREAL CASTLES
Oscillating between lightness, complicity and introspection, the performers of Boreal castles create bodily architectures articulated around eighty large pink hoops manipulated in multiple ways: erected in fragile spheres, intertwined like a nest or scattered on the ground, these architectures form devices where rites and rhythms intertwine. Boreal Castles directs the gaze and reflection on femininity, […]
UNFOLD| 7 PERSPECTIVES (OFF-FTA Circuit-Est)
Vibrating to the often harsh sounds and music of composer Ben Shemie, UNFOLD | 7 perspectives combines an apocalyptic atmosphere with moments of delicate softness and sensuality, The surprise scenographic structure allows Desnoyers to test the body’s resistance and the limits of balance. A magnetic, powerful, yet harmonic duel between the forces in play, the […]
INVISIBLE (OFFTA official program)
For 72 uninterrupted hours, Invisible activates a shared celebration space inviting the public, 9 dancers and a dog to play, exchange and connect. In a joyful complicity, the spectators are called upon to live and follow the continuum of time, as well as to contribute to the transformation of the piece through various interventions. In […]
DDA #5 – Present and Places : finding voice through connections, solidarities and reciprocities
Dialogue Danse Actuelle (DDA) is an online cultural mediation project created by Art Circulation where artists and experts from other professional spheres are invited to discuss current topics and contemporary issues. Conversation between Kim-Sanh Châu and Kevin Ah-Sen.