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TANGENTE: IN MIXED COMPANY // DENSITÉ D’UN MOMENT

TANGENTE: IN MIXED COMPANY // DENSITÉ D’UN MOMENT

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September 18, 2014 to September 21, 2014

In search of the New Absurd: playwright Ionesco meets novelist Kundera. This ven- turesome quartet is propelled into a surreal, illogical reality through an assortment of disciplines. Forging a fragmented dramaturgy on desire and dissonance, how will they find each other?

In Mixed Company is a highly physical and audacious contemporary dance piece that investigates the tension felt by individuals as they oscillate between the search for meaningful relationships and the pressure exerted by society to conform to its norms. Though radically modern and unprecedentedly connected, our world can still baffle our attempts to be heard, understood and loved, leaving us stranded, alone. In spite of this, we try tirelessly to overcome our isolation and to find the deeply intimate connections that bind us together. Inspired by the works of Theatre of the Absurd playwright Eugene Ionesco and novelist Milan Kundera, this quartet work explores the dissonance that arises within us when social codes hinder our search.

Densité d'un moment

A moment can be a dense thing. Some emotions speed time up. Others slow it down. One event experienced by two individuals can feel completely different for each depending on their individual history and hopes. What if we could freeze time and dissect a dense, complex moment shared by a group of individuals? Through their complex amalgam of contemporary and urban dance forms, Floor Rider & Tonik lead a group of 6 dance artists to express the dynamics at play when we dissect a moment, change our perspective, hold it up to the light and rotate it. Sculptural lighting and tailored sound define space and time, oscillating between both mathematical and organic expressions of patterns on the rhythmic and visual planes.