BESIDE
Fake news, building of the truth: how does the body contribute to giving credibility to dominant discourses? Borrowing words and movements from local media, BESIDE’s performers take on the identity of the mass media as a whole. Using radio broadcasts from each city where the piece is performed, a verbal score is created. To this […]
RADIOMATON
Fabricate your own truth for free. Appropriate words and gestures, embody radio news and contribute to the propagation of information without verification. A total sensory and immersive experience, RADIOMATON questions the construction of truth, media contamination, fake news and the role of the body in the perception of information. Installed in a cubicle resembling a […]
Mascarades
Mascarades brings together six female performers in a huis clos inspired by the codes of cinema and painting. The set, a mix of furniture and objects, recreates the fictitious rooms of a mansion. One scene follows another, capturing portraits of women. In a pure movement, imbued with modesty, they depict the beings and dramas whose […]
UNFOLD @ OFF Parcours Danse 2023
As part of OFF Parcours Danse 2023, Le Carré des Lombes will present the piece UNFOLD | 7 perspectives. The body opens, closes, short-circuited. The voice stutters, hiccups, splits. Trembling and unbalanced, this three-part piece features seven top-flight dancers. Together, they seek unity and struggle for identity. While fluidity has long been her signature, […]
Mystic-Informatic @ Parcours Danse 2023
Audrée Juteau, alongside Zoey Gauld, Catherine Lavoie-Marcus, Ellen Furey/Marilyne St-Sauveur, will present an excerpt from her piece Mystic-Informatic as part of the official Parcours Danse 2023 program. Two large metal structures, a 1983 computer and small 3D-printed yellow sculptures: in this setting evoking the ruins of capitalism and the waste produced by the constant […]
Réunion.s (2024) @ OFF Parcours Danse 2023
Presented as part of the OFF Parcours Danse 2023 program. Chanted spirography Sororal folklore Quadriphony of gesture Uchrony of the common Let us come together by quiet strength Let us look to the center to see forward Premiering in spring 2024, Marie Béland’s next creation (provisionally entitled Réunion.s) will focus on creating a junction between […]
Montréal-Marrakech @ Parcours Danse 2023
Presented as part of the official Parcours Danse 2023 program, Montréal-Marrakech is an atypical work, open to otherness, dialogue and exchange, bringing together the universes and visions of choreographers Danièle Desnoyers and Taoufiq Izeddiou. Scrutinizing the penumbra and the in-between, they have co-created a work for four performers (two from Montreal and two from Marrakech), […]
RADIOMATON @ Parcours Danse 2023
Create your own truth for free. Make words and gestures your own, embody radio news in your own image, and help spread information without verification. A truly sensory and immersive experience, RADIOMATON questions the construction of truth, media contamination, “fake news” and the role of the body in the perception of information. Installed in an […]
The Door Opened West
With modesty and sensitivity, Marc Boivin performs an autobiographical solo that sheds light on the mysterious architecture of memory. With his arms and words, he summons vibrant light beams from the darkness, erecting the delicate architecture of his life story. The veteran dancer trades his virtuosity for a humble language of the heart, in a […]
The Door Opened West
With modesty and sensitivity, Marc Boivin performs an autobiographical solo that sheds light on the mysterious architecture of memory. With his arms and words, he summons vibrant light beams from the darkness, erecting the delicate architecture of his life story. The veteran dancer trades his virtuosity for a humble language of the heart, in a […]
