FINALLY ! Critically acclaimed in 2021 in front of an ultra-small audience, here’s your chance to catch Face-à-face !
Face-à-face is a concerto for eight hands, a rambling about the quest for beauty and the absolute, about the mysteries of stage creation shared by dance and theatre. Jérémie Niel, Catherine Gaudet, Louise Bédard, Félix-Antoine Boutin, mirror each other; two choreographers and two directors who have mastered the art of probing the strings and fissures of each of their disciplines. A few steps on the stage, the choreography of languages, sounds and breaths; from words to abstractions, the two performers, Louise Bédard and Félix-Antoine Boutin, squat in the space, contaminating each other, seeking each other out with irony, and finding a direction all at once. The magic and fragility of each are all the more revealed when we are propelled, jostled into the other’s posture and world. And yet not that far away.
Jérémie Niel is a stage director who often flirts with dance. In 2005 he founded the company Pétrus and since then has staged more than fifteen 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.
January 31 2024 – 7 PM
February 1 + 2 2024 – 7 PM
February 3 2024 – 4 PM
Duration : 85 minutes
29$ | 35$
Meet the Artists, February 1 after the performance
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Creation and direction Jérémie Niel
Choreography Catherine Gaudet
Direction assistant Ariane Lamarre
Performance and creation support Louise Bédard et Félix-Antoine Boutin
Lights Cédric Delorme-Bouchard
Costumes Léonie Blanchet
Sound Jérôme Guilleaume
Sound design Jean-Sébastien Côté et Ariane Lamarre
Technical director Rébecca Brouillard
Control Anne Sara Gendron
Production manager Kevin Bergeron
Coproduction Danse-Cité
Pétrus
