2M - Sinha Danse - Emmanuelle Martin

Crédit photo: Damian Siqueiros

2M - SinhaDanse - Amelia Lamanque

Crédit photo: Damian Siqueiros

SUNYA

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2M - Sinha Danse - Emmanuelle Martin

Crédit photo: Damian Siqueiros

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INTERCULTURAL CONTEMPORARY DANCE

SINHA DANSE

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Sinha Danse is a professional contemporary dance company based in Montreal and founded by Roger Sinha over 25 years ago. Creating, producing, and presenting contemporary dance are the center of the company’s mandates, choreographing with a level of excellence inspired by the Indian cultural heritage of its founder.

Promotion of contemporary dance is of major importance to Sinha Danse, as the richness that can be brought to this discipline using intercultural and multidisciplinary approaches. Music and new technologies are also greatly valued and present in many of its works.

Rich with history, the company has presented in front of multiple audiences. Its works across Quebec, Canada, and internationally. Renowned choreographer and dance specialist, Roger Sinha is a regular guest teacher for professional dance training institutions and events across the country.

Emphasizing the importance of his work, he was awarded the 2016 Prize for Cultural Diversity in Dance, presented by the Conseil des arts de Montréal, from PRIX DE LA DANSE DE MONTRÉAL

AWARDS

Arts & Culture Lys Trophy 2017 given at the Grands Prix Mosaïque's gala for his work MoW! Promoting inclusion and outreach of diversity in all its forms.
Cultural Diversity Prize in dance 2016: presented by the Conseil des arts de Montréal, for Prix de la danse de Montréal 2016.
Kathryn Ash Choreographic Commission 2011, offered to a sélecte choreographer by the School of Toronto Dance Theater to create a production with students.
Prix du public canadien at the Racines de Radio-Canada International 2010 contest for videodance, Haters n’ Baiters: The culture collision.
Roger Sinha is chosen by the Canadian Dance Assembly (CDA) as ambassador for International Dance Day 2017.
Sinha Danse has been sélecte five times for the Conseil des arts de Montréal en tournée for Loha/Thok, Apricot Trees Exist, Zeros & Ones/Thread, Sunya (2014-2015), Tope là, Tope ci, Wifi Takka Takka Dhim (2015-2016).

2M

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2M is a choreographic work born out of its creator’s desire to find his bearings through dance in a social universe transformed by the obligation of social distancing. At the origin of the piece, a vision of the performers dressed in long skirts, in square shape - 2 m long on each side. The spatial restrictions that we have been asked to respect since the start of the pandemic have become raw material and inspiration for the choreographer. Four dancers and three musicians translate into music and movement an unprecedented relational and spatial upheaval, deeply touching the intimate interior of beings, transforming the architecture of their living spaces. An unresolved conflict arises between the inner need for closeness and this new type of danger that others represent socially. The music is performed live on stage, by Tim Brady (electric guitar), Helmut Lipsky (violin) and Shawn Metevisky (tabla and percussion).

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Choreographer

Roger Sinha

Original Music

Tim Brady

Dancers

Citlali Germé-Trevino

Olivia Jaén Flores

Emmanuelle Martin

Amélia Lamanque

Rehearsal Director

Marie-Ève Lafontaine

Musicians

Tim Brady (electric guitar)

Helmut Lipsky (violin)

Shawn Metevisky (tabla and percussion).

Costumes

Emily Rose Léger

Lighting

Stéphane Ménigot

Technical Direction

Jacques Pilon

OUT OF BARK AND BONE

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Out of Bark and Bone goes back to the essential vital forces that define our humanity and give shape to who we are fundamentally, beyond divisions, affiliations, ethnic groups and cultural identities. Voice, breath and rhythm constitute the canvas of the piece. The constant fleeting interactions between humans, locked up in themselves, bouncing within the limits of their own breath, encircled by others, trying to escape, are driven by the essential need to continually outgrow and emancipate from what was there before, individually or as a group.

Two musicians accompany six dancers on stage in this piece, created by the choreographer Roger Sinha in collaboration with the dancers and composer Katia Makdissi-Warren. The perpetual inner rhythms of the bodies resonate with the deep sound of the didgeridoo and the steady beat of the drums in an effort to strip out the inessential. Humans and instruments communicate, sustained by the breath. Almost otherworldly throat sounds, coming from the depths of bodies, heavy with ancestry, get intertwined with the rhythmic projection of the human speech, fused within in the constant circular tones of the didgeridoo.

CRITICS

D’os et d’écorce est une pièce réussie, qui, souvent, émeut et galvanise. Elle est accessible et pourrait faire une bonne introduction à la danse contemporaine, tout en étant sophistiquée. [...] Ce qui nous a le plus transportés dans la dernière création de Roger Sinha est, en fait, la présence du chorégraphe lui-même. Formidable corporéité que la sienne, arrimée à son didgeridoo, traversant la scène tel un guide, accompagnant les sonorités de son instrument par des cris et des incantations, par ses mains et toute sa physicalité qui se déploient. Fait d’os et d’écorce, on pourrait le regarder pendant des heures."

Nayla Naoufal

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