EMMANUEL JOUTHE
DANSE CARPE DIEM
CONTEMPORARY DANCE
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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CORPS DE TEXTE
SYMOPSIS - CORPS DE TEXTE
Creation 2019 / 2 to 6 dancers / 2 X 45 min.
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.