Jérémie
Niel

Face-à-face-2022

26 - 29 Jan 2022

Pétrus

[CANCELED] Critically acclaimed in 2021 when presented to a limited audience, here is your chance to see or re-see Face-à-face.

Four characters engage in a conversation about the quest for beauty and the absolute, about the mysteries of creating dance and theatre. Featuring Jérémie Niel, Catherine Gaudet, Louise Bédard and Félix-Antoine Boutin. Mirroring each other, two choreographers and two directors manipulate art, examining the strings and cracks of their disciplines. Danced movement onstage adds to a choreography of words, sounds and breaths that send various trajectories, landscapes and critical thoughts spinning into orbit. From words to abstraction, the two performers (Louise Bédard and Félix-Antoine Boutin) inhabit the space, contaminating each other, adopting an ironic tone as they seek to reach out, to comprehend. They plunge into a mutual questioning of each other’s creative approach. The magic and fragility of each are revealed all the more when jolted and propelled into the other’s position and worldview. A journey toward something near to hand.

Concept and staging

Jérémie Niel is a stage director who often flirts with dance. In 2005 he founded the company Pétrus and since then has staged a dozen works that were presented at La Chapelle, Festival TransAmériques, Usine C, the National Arts Centre and Théâtre national de Chaillot in Paris. By sculpting shadows and half-light and creating striking soundscapes pierced by silence, he makes each piece a hypnotic universe imbued with a gentle strangeness, freely borrowing from theatre, dance, music and the visual arts. A poet of skewed reality who works with collaborators from diverse disciplines, in probing the hidden aspects of words and gestures he endeavours to reveal certain ambiguities of the human psyche.

Jérémie
Niel

Canceled

January 26-27-28, 2022 – 7 p.m.
January 29, 2022 – 4 p.m.

Duration : 85 minutes

29$-35$


The piece contains a fair amount of French dialogue.

Meet the artists January 27, 2022 after the performance

Credits

Company Pétrus
Concept and staging Jérémie Niel
Choreography Catherine Gaudet
Stage manager and Assistant director Ariane Lamarre
Performers / collaborators Louise Bédard and Félix-Antoine Boutin
Lighting design Cédric Delorme-Bouchard
Costumes Léonie Blanchet
Sound design Jean-Sébastien Côté, Ariane Lamarre
Sound and technical director Jérôme Guilleaume
Production manager Kevin Bergeron

Coproduction :  Pétrus, Danse-Cité
Creative residency Agora de la danse

Jérémie
Niel

Face-à-face-2022

26 - 29 Jan 2022

Pétrus