EBNFLŌH
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The Ebnflōh Dance Company, founded in 2015 by Alexandra ‘Spicey’ Landé, offers a unique choreographic language and artistic vision. She promotes creative exploration by broadening the field of research for street dance in Canada while remaining true and faithful to the base of Hip-Hop’s origins. Her artistic signature, her community involvement, and her contribution to the growth and development of dancers and the discipline itself, make the company an acclaimed actor in the dance milieu in Quebec. Inclusive at the core, it equally values the practices of emerging talent along with those of the culturally diverse. The company hopes to make street dance more accessible - its diversified public is a testament to the company’s success.
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LA PROBABILITÉ DU NÉANT
SYNOPSIS - LA PROBABILITÉ DU NÉANT
For La Probabilité du Néant, Alexandra 'Spicey' Landé brings together eight virtuoso street dancers, who magnificently inhabit her choreographic work: Banks, 'Bibiman', 'Jigsaw', 'Kiddi', Kosi, 'Tealeaf', 'Hurricane Tina' and 'Rawss'.
Will indifference to the Other get the better of us? How can we make sense of our actions when we witness extreme situations that drive us to the edge of nothingness? Continuing her exploration of the human psyche, Spicey grounds the genesis of this work in the “bystander effect”. Is the witness an observer or an accomplice? Spicey blurs the lines and perspectives depending on who is watching. Seated on stage, the audience is surrounded by projection screens. Spicey has always been influenced by film and theatre, but this is the first time she has used video in her choreography.
With its incisive dance, La Probabilité du Néant challenges our perceptions, our judgments, and the consequences of our choices. In the strange possibility of our own self-destruction, it also reminds us of our luminous capacity for resistance and resilience.
Creation 2022 | 8 Dancers | 80 min.
MŌNAD
Mōnad ENG | 2 performers | 70 min.
Mōnad (from the ancient Greek monad, meaning 'unit') refers to the idea of a self-sufficient, unicellular organism containing multiple universes. Major player on Québec's hip-hop dance scene, Alexandra 'Spicey' Landé embodies this Mōnad.
Inspired by this primary matter and energised by her symbiotic relationship with dance and hip hop culture, Spicey welcomes materials and sounds that form and deform, adapt and transform as they interact. How can we approach different incarnations of a single life? Mōnad is a vibrant consideration of the relationships in interrelated universes, questioning the notion of eternity.
IN-BEAUTY
SYNOPSIS - IN-BEAUTY
25 minutes / 4 dancers / 2018
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.
IN-WARD
SYNOPSIS - IN-WARD
With raw and sharp physicality, Alexandra subtly combines dramatic tension, and dark humour in dealing with obvious situational absurdities that grapple with the forces of hope. Are we able to perceive and understand the other’s experience without the biases of our own subjective experience? Forced to live together in a limited space, forming perhaps unlikely alliances, these individuals and their bodies must reconcile temptations to be alone with a threat of real conflict.