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CONTEMPORARY DANCE & THEATER
Keep creating, especially when everything is collapsing.
Both in form and content, the works of Marilyn Daoust and Gabriel Léger-Savard draw on the collective experience inherent in the performing arts and take pleasure in playing with the visceral, spatial, and allegorical power of bodies and words to question the many imbalances of our time. Far from losing themselves in one another, this fusion of dance and theater allows them to rediscover each other, giving rise to multifaceted dramaturgy through this uncompromising blend. Their works are characterized by a strong artistic signature and themes that touch the very core of our humanity.
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ENTRE NOUS SOMMES PRIS
ENTRE NOUS
SYNOPSIS - ENTRE NOUS SOMMES PRIS ENTRE NOUS
Creation 2024 / 7 performers / 75 min.
These two women might never have met, yet they have become indispensable to each other. Decades have passed, and today, they contemplate the void together. While one fills it with her soliloquies, the other drives her four-wheeled walker along the borders of her memory. Together, they find themselves at the heart of a spiraling movement, where a chorus of six women summons their memories, their ancestors, their aspirations, their disappointments, and their hopes for the future.
Both humorous and touching, Entre nous sommes pris entre nous is a true ode to friendship—a human fresco that puts into perspective the cycles of life and generations, old age, and mutual support.
MAKE IT RAIN
SYNOPSIS - MAKE IT RAIN
Creation 2027 / 1 Dancer / 70 min.
There, a Garden of Eden soothes us or sends a chill down our spines;
There, an intensive monoculture or an open-pit mine, where the human desire to possess, exploit, and reshape clings too closely to us;
There, the vast emptiness of space and a blank canvas after a journey of initiation, where we can settle in with clarity and exaltation.
MAKE IT RAIN is a demanding, radical, and sensitive solo piece rooted in our relationship with spaces—both those we inhabit and those that take shape within us. A woman alone on stage uses a huge piece of fabric to create a play on scale, where skin, florals, and synthetics are poured into different power dynamics. Simplicity and polysemy coexist here through natural, manufactured, and obscure landscapes, in subtle transformations. Marilyn Daoust, with her disarming performance, keeps us spellbound in this hypnotic tale that weaves between mythology and performance. This play reflects the urgency of our century and explores, among other things, the imbalances in class relations, the boundlessness of human aspirations, and the impact of systemic dogmas on women’s bodies. A powerful, unifying work.