Programme
Tue, 9/3/2010
Concept: Dave St-Pierre in collaboration with: Eugénie Beaudry, Enrica Boucher, Geneviève Bélanger, Julie Carrier, Karina Champoux, Francis Ducharme, Sarah Lefebvre, Véronique Lavallée, Camille Loiselle-D’Aragon, Ève Pressault-Chalifoux, Julie Perron, Marie-Ève Quilicot, Emmanuel Schwartz, Patrick Simard in turn with: Emmanuelle Beaudoin-Bourassa, Luc Boissonneault, Alexis Lefebvre, Renaud Lacelle-Bourdon, Gaëtan Viau, Anne Thériault, Michael Watts, Frédéric Tavernini, Katia Lévesque, Dany Desjardins technical direction, lighting design: Alexandre Pilon-Guay stage manager, acoustic engineering: Benoit Bisaillon rehearsal management: Daniel Villeneuve manager: George Skalkogiannis administration: Suzanne Benoit
La Pornographie des âmes (2004) is a choreographic essay on everyday people and their minor dramas which ultimately nevertheless affect us – enlarged out of all proportion or explored in microscopic detail. Full of spontaneity and self-irony, Dave St-Pierre relates what we are and what the world is trying to make of us. His dancers are naked – provocation and irritation, fragility and contact at the same time. Resonating with a range of texts, the performed and truth overlap, naturalness and artificiality blur, static and extremely dynamic stage situations push into one another with real and exaggerated emotions.
With the support of: Conseil des Arts du Canada, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, L’Agora de la danse, Tangente, Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec and Ministère des Relations Internationales.
We recommend that performance visitors over 18.
INTERNATIONAL GUEST PERFORMANCE
DAVE ST-PIERRE (CAN)
With two works (La Pornographie des âmes and Un peu de Tendresse bordel de Merde!), Dave St-Pierre, who is considered an enfant terrible of the contemporary Canadian dance scene, is a guest performer in the Tanzquartier Wien in March. The two choreographies are part of an artistic trilogy about present-day utopias, about "humanity, love, life and death". He drives the bodies and his themes to the extreme, gives space to the here and now and to the immediacy of the bodies and – between harmony and stage spectacle, with desire and the knowledge of its failure – describes love as a utopia and tenderness in its impossibility.
Introductions to La Pornographie des âmes
Tue. 9 March + Wed. 10 March 19.45 TQW / Studios (admission free)
Tickets: Regular price 18 €
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