FANTASTIC CREATURES

Strange new extra-human worlds to experience, filled with avatars and soulful objects


Les Strange Strangers
Audrée Juteau
45 minutes
Audrée invites us to a singular, intuitive meeting between dance and animism. Objects inhabited by souls fill the stage. They are apt to affect our senses even as we interact with them, making strange the familiarity of our environment. Onstage together with dancer Nathan Yaffe and composer Michel F. Côté, she explores through self-hypnosis and with characteristic wit, the experience of strangeness and the possibilities of altering the senses. Les Strange strangers draws from Lewis Carroll’s tale, Alice in Wonderland and is deeply rooted in the philosophy of perception. Movements make visible the subtleties of somatic awareness. This performance allows us, along with the performers, to reverse our sensitive relationship to our environment and to feel the matter around us becoming animate.


Ché pas kess tu c (Dunno Wat U Kno)
Nathan Yaffe
40 minutes
In a space filled with inflatables and fantastically deformed dancers, Nathan investigates the body in the alternative reality of cyberspace. Enveloped in this virtual world, he sets us down in the company of avatar-performers, with heads pitched forward and physical contours distorted, winding their way through a bouncy obstacle course. At the heart of this dance composition, at once droll and strange, there lies a physical exploration of metaphysical questions: What are the limits of knowledge and bodily intelligence? What is our relationship to virtual environments? This is a perfect occasion for you to experiment with an “out-of-body” experience through the proxy of avatars.