PHILIPPE MEUNIER & IAN YAWORSKI + STACEY DÉSILIER

Philippe Meunier & Ian Yaworski
Suspendu au sol

Time to take off our slippers! Two choreographers work with new collaborators. Four contemporary dancers give gigue a try, producing sounds by leaving aside traditional canons. The eyes will see contemporary dance; the ears will recognize gigue. The artists wish to suspend time by studying the relationship between different bodies. These worlds that brush up against one another in the exploration of folklore – without ever giving into the virtuosity of the gigueur – leave no place for censorship.

Onstage: David Campbell, Catherine Lafleur, Geneviève Lauzon, Liane Thériault. Collaborators: Corinne Crane, Cédric Dind-Lavoie, Benjamin Prescott La Rue, Cloé Alain-Gendreau.

A copresentation with Bigico.

Stacey Désilier
Pythagore mon corps

A dark stage, fluorescent costumes. How to triangulate the sense of timing between individuality, musicality, and gravity? Many traditions intermingle, providing the performers with different types of body language. Martial arts, urban dances, boxing – everything is a pretext to resist falling and to delay hitting the ground. The choreography is formed through variations in breadth of movement, in sequence length, and in the number of repetitions. As solos alternate with interactions, the spectator witnesses the eternal balancing of human rationality and animality.

Onstage: Charles Brecard, Justine Chevalier-Martineau, Noémie Dufour-Campeau, Roxanne Dupuis, Maïka Giasson, Alexandre Wilhelm. Collaborators: Mathieu Desjardins, Benoit Larivière, Joël Lavoie, Marie-Pier Proulx.