IN SITU
Dance
ÊTRES DE BOIS | Fleuve | Espace Danse
Les bois de grèves arrivent par les grandes marées d’automne et du printemps, sur les berges du Saint-Laurent, gorgés d’eau. Pour la chorégraphe, ils deviennent tout de suite une grande source d’inspiration. Difficiles à manipuler puisque lourds et encombrants, elle y voit rapidement une allusion aux bois des caribous qui ont parfois de la difficulté à faire leur chemin à travers les arbres de la forêt.
L’accessoire offre également beaucoup de possibilités et de sens. Ils représentent la force et l’enracinement, tout comme le cervidé qui porte fièrement ses précieux bois. C’est donc à partir de cette image et de la gestuelle en lien avec la forte masse du caribou que s’est dirigée l’exploration chorégraphique.
Dans la chorégraphie, on peut sentir un grand enracinement des interprètes au centre du corps, beaucoup de mouvements de bassin, de jeux de pieds, grands-pliés, des allégories à la reproduction, aux attaques, des mouvements en cercle faisant référence aux déplacements en meutes et l’utilisation des bois comme symbole de beauté, de puissance et de préciosité.
ON / OFF | Grand Poney
ON / OFF is a dance work designed for teenagers
and adults where a quintet of dancers performs on
an unusual and wondrous machine: an oversized
treadmill.
On this rolling and confining surface, physical
movement is both restrained and ecstatic, exhilarated
and acrobatic. Together and alone, the performers
address themes such as identity, self fulfillment,
determination, coexistence, freedom, exhaustion and
the unending feelings and sensations that makeup
the complexity of life. The treadmill is a meeting place
where the characters seek to understand their place
in the world. Sometimes at the mercy, sometimes
in control of this intriguing, unpredictable and
mobilizing machine, they play with time and suspend
actions in space in order to dig out the details of
gestures, questions and interactions. The forever
forward moving device becomes a metaphor for the
passage from childhood to adulthood. It is the path
that we choose to travel and the life that we learn
to tame.
Territoire: Monde
SHARED BREATH
Sinha Danse
SUMMARY - SHARED BREATH
2023 | 40 min. | 4 dancers
Shared Breath is a moving reminder of our essential need to touch. Originally inspired by experiences of the global pandemic, the piece explores the internal states resulting from the isolation and absence of and the resulting renewed ability to transcend solitude and reconnect in new and unexpected ways.
Four dancers wear square skirt-like structures strapped to their waists, symbolizing the socially defined mould of their personal space. The figures twirl tirelessly within their constructions, like modern-day whirling dervishes, all the while adding dynamic, fluid curves to the straight, rigid lines. Defying distance and the absence of touch, striving to make contact contact, the characters finally free themselves, all with a common breath.
Created by an extraordinary artistic team, Shared Breath features the bold choreographic language of Roger Sinha and the original music composed and performed by Of Sound, Mind and Body, featuring Tim
Brady on electric guitar, Helmut Lipsky on violin, and Shawn Mativetsky on Indian tabla and percussion.
Territoire: Monde
FRICTIONS | Les Archipels
Frictions is an In Situ parading performance that travels with the audience through a mesmerizing story of our social phobias through the language of percussive dance and jigs. Frictions is an emotional and touching contemporary jig evoking the relationships between dancers in relation to themselves and to the spectators.
Often funny, often cynical. Always epic.
IN-BEAUTY | Ebnflōh
In-Beauty questions the parameters of feminine gender through its choreographic language, anchored in Hip Hop. How do societal codes influence the image of women? What happens when these rules no longer apply, when we are motivated by an inner strength that overcomes the clichés attached to gender? With an urban furniture as a starting point, the 4 performers push their physical abilities and revisit the codes of street dance. Nourished by the different venues, the choreographer creates a space where the spectator is invited, in the proximity of the bodies, to experience the energy of street dance.
LA MARÉE NOIRE (Summer version)
Fleuve | Espace Danse
Inspired by the issues caused by an oil spill in the seas and on marine ecosystems, Chantal Caron revisits textures, forms and oppositions in this 30-minute show. The performance puts in symbiosis two marine goddesses captives of the Grande Marée Noire.
"A duo of dancers appears as part of nature: curious earthly doubles in original aqua-medusas. Undulatory movements, hands-fin waving, pulses and contractions of the bodies, sound breaths act like the inspiration of a breath or a wave. Participants are welcomed as a collective tribute to the surrounding nature in the expression of energetic movements.
MATCH D’IMPRO DE GIGUE
Jonathan C. Rousseau/BIGICO
RÉSUMÉ - MATCH D’IMPRO DE GIGUE
Création 2021 | 8 interprètes | 75 min.
Créé à Montréal par BIGICO et basé sur un concept du chorégraphe Jonathan C. Rousseau, le match d’improvisation giguée rassemble des gigueurs et gigueuses professionnel-les à pied-d’oeuvre pour en mettre plein la vue. La prise de risque et la complexité rythmique seront au rendez-vous afin de rendre le spectacle survolté. Le succès de ce match repose sur la diversité des improvisations, la convivialité et la virtuosité de ses artistes.
Accompagnées d'un musicien traditionnel, deux équipes s’affrontent durant de courtes improvisations lors de deux périodes de trente-cinq minutes. Et le public vote pour les meilleures performances ! Un événement qui peut autant se dérouler en salle qu’en extérieur lors d’un festival !
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2023 | Festival Mémoire et Racines
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2023 | Tournée dans l’Est-du-Québec + Val d'Or
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2023 | Festival Mémoire et Racines
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2021 | Festival Trad Montréal
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2020 | Festival Mémoire et Racines
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2018 | 2e match aux Bains Mathieu
Territoire: Monde
LISTEN TO SEE
Emmanuel Jouthe | Danse Carpe Diem
Trailer
human-playground.com
Territoire: Monde
PARKING_L’OUBLIÉ
Human Playground
SUMMARY - PARKING_L'OUBLIÉ
Creation 2017 / A stroll through the city / 40min
4 Dancers
On the bangs of the urban frenzy, this deambulatory show invites the audience to follow a series of events that turn the lives of 4 individuals upside down.
Guided by a mobile sound system, the audience is led through a succession of 5 locations, each of which contains a chapter in this intimate drama.
Parking engages the spectator as witness, arousing emotion and provoking reflection on loss and our relationship with the present. At night, light panels illuminate the scenes.