CONTEMPORARY DANCE | STEPDANCING | IN SITU
LES ARCHIPELS
(I. Yaworski/P. Meunier)
Both dancers and choreographers since 2002, Philippe Meunier and Ian Yaworksi cut their teeth on many solo projects before combining their strengths into this collaboration. Their mutual desire to develop a unique choreographic vocabulary, inspired by traditional québécois jigs and body percussion, is the basis of what has become Les Archipels.
Born out of the traditional dance scene, they have developed a body language and rhythm vocabulary based on their deconstruction and exploration of traditional québécois folklore through the lense of a contemporary esthetic. This approach has permitted them to develop a unique choreographic signature inspired by their previous choreographies Monte-Charlesand Frictions.
Accolades and Misunderstandings
SHOW
Accolades and Misunderstandings is an invitation to plunge into the choreographer’s creative process and allows the audience a behind the scenes perspective of the creation, from the dance studio to the stage, and a detour of videoconferences. Instigated by reflections of belonging, ambivalence, and authenticity, this project is first and foremost about negotiation.Teetering between a dance show and a stage-mounted documentary, this new creation presents a deconstructed contemporary gigue and an alarmist folklore where the audience is invited to travel back-and-forth between the studio and the stage
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HIGHLIGHTS
Accolades and Misunderstandings has been selected for the event “CARTE BLANCHE” of the first « Quadriennale de gigue contemporaine » produced by BIGICO. The four first performances are planned from mars 11 to 14, 2021.
CREDITS
Choreographers and performers
Philippe Meunier and Ian Yaworski
Creation Artists
Jonathan C. Rousseau
Sébastien Chalumeau
Catherine Lafleur
Geneviève Lauzon
Philippe Meunier
Liane Thériault
Antoine Turmine
Ian Yaworski
Playwright
Benjamin Prescott La Rue
Composer
Jérôme Minière
Costumes Designer
Cloé Alain-Gendreau
Lighting Designer and Technical Director
Karine Gauthier
Rehearsal Director
Jessica Serli
Production
Les Archipels
Co-presented by Tangente and Bigico as part of the Carte Blanche evening of the first Quadriennale de gigue contemporaine.
Financial Partners
Canada Council for the Arts
Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec
Conseil des arts de Montréal
Creation and production partners
L’Estruch (Sabadell, Spain)
Carrefour culturel de Notre-Dame-des-Prairies
Tangente
Bigico
Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay
Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
FRICTIONS
available in regular version and COVID PROOF version
SHOW
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.
CRITICS
On nous surprend à chaque fois, soit par la rythmique des séquences gestuelles (qui sont exécutées avec précision et justesse), le changement des formations spatiales et même par les émotions qui ressortent naturellement de chacun des interprètes (Philippe Meunier, Yan Yaworski, Sébastien Chalumeau, Jonathan C. Rousseau et Antoine Turmine), leurs états de corps étant clairs et habités. [...] Une pièce où le rythme, le jeu, le plaisir et la rigueur se font sentir. Ils ont réussi à plonger le public au cœur de l’œuvre et un plaisir partagé s’est fait sentir du début à la fin. Une gigue qui fait du bien au cœur.
Jessica Perry
DFDanse
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CREDITS
Choreographers
Philippe Meunier and Ian Yaworski
Dancers
Jonathan C. Rousseau
Sébastien Chalumeau
Philippe Meunier
Antoine Turmine
Ian Yaworski
Composer
Antoine Berthiaume
Rehearsal Director
Jessica Serli
Producers
Philippe Meunier et Ian Yaworski
Frictions receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec.
