Dance Works

Hélène Blackburn / Cas Public – Allegro Barbaro

This encounter is a dive into the choreography of Hélène Blackburn and her company Cas Public. It’s a great opportunity to be in close proximity to a group of ten performers as you dance onstage with them. Allegro Barbaro, freely inspired by the theory of the four types of temperament (sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic), which describes how our moods control human behavior, propels the spectator into a high-flying experience. A thrilling dance experience, the piece unfolds at a breathless pace, punctuated by dazzling performers driven to surpass their limits as they relish the sheer joy of dancing.

Credits

Choreography and artistic direction Hélène Blackburn

Rehearsal director Jérémy Galdeano

Performers Cai Glover, Alexander Ellison, Laura Vande Zande, Adrian Maxwell, Campagna, Élodie Scholtes Labrecque, Aicha Ben Chaaboune, Mateo Picone, Raphael Bouchard, Florence Hughes, Anja Fanslau

Music Martin Tétreault

Lighting design Emmanuel Landry in collaboration with Hélène Blackburn

Costumes Michael Slack

Margie Gillis – The Complex Simplicity of Love

Dance with the great doyenne of dance Margie Gillis and two accomplices, Geneviève Boulet and Susan Paulson. Through the use of motion sensors, 3D animation allows spectators to see in real time their movements trace patterns of texture, colour and light in the space as they accompany the three dancers during the presentation. In a privileged face-to-face relationship with the artists, the spectator is introduced to the choreography by means of natural, circular movements employed in a short dance sequence. First presented 20 years ago, The Complex Simplicity of Love was driven by a desire to dance with someone who was not there, to explore the presence of absence.

Credits

Choreography and Artistic Direction Margie Gillis

Performers Margie Gillis, Geneviève Boulet, Susan Paulson

Lighting Design Pierre Lavoie

Music G.F. Häendel (Singers Quartom, Kerry Bursey,

Benoit Le Blanc, Philippe Martel, Julien Patenaude)

Costumes Denis Gagnon, Sonya Bayer

Coordinator Anita Czeski

Andrea Peña – 6.58 Manifesto

In this close encounter with eight dancers and a soprano, spectators find themselves in a raw, unfiltered realm of sensation and physicality. A rising young choreographer, Andrea is renowned for her multidisciplinary alternate worlds, her abstract yet politically charged works and the visceral experiences she creates for the audience.In this excerpt from 6.58 Manifesto, Andrea Peña & Artists address, in a critical and artistic manifesto, our relationship with the systems and external forces with which every human being must constantly compose.

Credits

Andrea Peña & Artists Company

Artistic Director Andrea Peña

Choreography Andrea Peña in co-creation with the artists

Performers Nicholas Bellefleur, Gabby Kachan, Jean-Benoît Labrecque, Jontae

McCrory, Erin O’loughlin, Francois Richard, Frédérique Rodier, Laura Toma

Soprano Erin Lindsay

Sound Designer Marc Bartissol alias dull

Set Design Andrea Peña, Alexis Gosselin

Set Design Jonathan Saucier

Artistic Advisor Hélène Simard

Lighting Designer Hugo Dalphond

Costumes Polina Boltova, Rodolfo Moraga

VR Production Assistant Bobby Leon