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EMMANUEL JOUTHE
DANSE CARPE DIEM

CONTEMPORARY DANCE
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Territory: World

Beyond creating, producing and performing choreographic works, DCD/EJ contributes significantly to developing audiences in contemporary dance, with a strong focus on educational and cultural mediation activities. DCD/EJ’s mission is to foster exploration and experimentation within an ongoing research process. In this way, the company contributes to the growth and development of the contemporary dance milieu.

 

The company has premiered and performed over fifteen original works, several of which have been presented throughout Canada and in Europe. 

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MIRAGES

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LE SILENCE NE RETIENT PAS LA BRUME

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VEGA

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LISTEN TO SEE

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CORPS DE TEXTE

SHOW 1

MIRAGES

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SYMOPSIS - MIRAGES

Creation 2022  / 6 dancers  (from vidéo)

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Installation composite pour l’espace public conçue par Emmanuel Jouthe, MIRAGES est une proposition intimiste qui invente une mise en abîme du vivant. Il s’agit d’une forme modulable de solos chorégraphiques créés en étroite collaboration avec les interprètes et le vidéaste Xavier Curnillon. Les solos sont accompagnés de l’univers musical du compositeur Antoine Berthiaume et disposés grâce à un module de projection numérique pensé en partenariat avec HUB Studio. MIRAGES nous rapproche, plus près, encore plus près de la danse et permet de capter cette dimension où les corps sont touchés dans une nouvelle proximité, témoignage de leur force, de leur beauté et de leur diversité.

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Questionnant la notion d’intimité, MIRAGES, en élaboration depuis 2016, repense le rapport à l’autre par le biais de plans macro projeté dans les mains et grâce aux nouveaux lieux qu’offre le regard de la caméra et l’intégration numérique. L’œuvre prend son sens à travers son interraction avec le spectateur, qui dans un geste d’acceuil, cueille la danse dans le creux du module de projection. Dans son plein déploiement, les six modules inspirés dans leur conception par la nature et les arbres, seront disposés en sous-bois invitant à s’y aventurer pour découvrir les différents morceaux dansés de « l’album » du corps, qu’il soit osseux, tégumentaire, digestif, musculaire, respirant ou encore nerveux. L’oeuvre participe à redéfinir la notion de l’intime dans une rencontre entre le numérique et l’organique.

SHOW 2

LE SILENCE NE RETIENT PAS LA BRUME

SHOW 3

SYNOPSIS - LE SILENCE NE RETIENT PAS LA BRUME

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2023 / 60 min. / 3 dancers

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LE SILENCE NE RETTIENT PAS LA BRUME, is an exhibition of body and matter that suggests a contemplative and meditative space inviting to put down the weight and to calm our certainties.  This proposal is the result of an incongruous cohabitation between the inert and the living.  This territory leaves room for the notion of mutation, dissolution, even disappearance.  This project is offered in a spatial context in deployment, on a long duration, taking the form of a nomadic relay between soloists.

VEGA

SYNOPSIS - VEGA

Creation 2021  / 4 dancers / 50 min.

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Embarking on a trajectory in the vanishing space of a cosmology without apparent grounds; navigating between convolution and cohabitation. These are the parameters around which the four artists on stage create and re-create the space. Every moment of VEGA contains the attempt to seize a site never encountered. Returning becomes an act of abandonment.

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With VEGA, Emmanuel Jouthe embraces a dramaturgy quite different from his recent works while maintaining the human poetry that carries his choreography. 

In this creation, he invites proximity with the audience through space. The choreographer has challenged himself to palpably render the elusive nature of imagination.

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LISTEN TO SEE

SYNOPSIS - LISTEN TO SEE   |   page 1 of 2

Creation 2019  / 2 to 6 dancers / 2 X 45 min.

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ÉCOUTE POUR VOIR is made up of various solos dispersed throughout the space and danced simultaneously. Dancers and spectators wear headphones connected to an iPod and share in a choreography for the duration of a piece of music. 

 

Participants can experience different versions and a variety of dances by moving from one performer to another, but they can also enjoy the totality of a shifting and dynamic ensemble from a distance. Participants are thus free to come into the dance according to their impulses or as they please.

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The purpose of this piece is to create privileged moments between two individuals and to discover such proximal connections. ÉCOUTE POUR VOIR, with its intimate choreographies, offers a new experience of the body’s movement as associated with different melodies, featuring two people in tune with one other, wrapped up in a shared world of sound.

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CORPS DE TEXTE

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SYMOPSIS - CORPS DE TEXTE

Creation 2019  / 2 to 6 dancers / 2 X 45 min.

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CORPS DE TEXTE is a series of solos unfolding in a world where literature and poetry occupy the foreground. The concept is an outgrowth of the ÉCOUTE POUR VOIR project, and gives movement to words, excerpts from novels, poems and other literary works, in the space of 3 to 4-minute solos. Again, emanating from the theme of proximity in which the choreographer is deeply invested, the dancers’ bodies take on the shape of the text within intimate individual encounters, or tête-à-têtes. While hearing the power in the meaning of the words, the physical language expressed becomes a meeting and sharing medium, both delicate and invigorating. Using several languages in the recording of texts (Arabic, Spanish, English, French, Japanese, etc.), the piece reinitializes the spectator’s imagination, both provoking and facilitating openness to the other.

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