With this piece, Priscilla Guy and Emilie Morin invite the audience to question the codes of stage performance by blurring boundaries. Who is looking at whom? How and through whose eyes?
An unusual choreographic proposition, Peau uses screens, video projections and live editing effects. Four performers propose a continuous mutation of their image. It’s not a question of magnifying or destroying the image, but of mobilizing technology and textiles to create a constant metamorphosis. All these “skins” collide, giving us a sense of what the epidermis absorbs from contact with a daily bombardment of images. In contrast to an often cold and geometric digital universe, technology here is a means of returning to the self and to touch, an incursion that is as close as possible to the skin, or perhaps even… beneath it.
Priscilla Guy is a performer, choreographer, filmmaker and visual arts curator and researcher based in Marsoui in the Gaspé region. She founded Mandoline Hybride in 2007, the banner under which she presents her choreography locally and internationally. Her work focuses on the interaction between dance and image, employing an experimental perspective. She holds a doctorate in feminist cinematography from the University of Lille (France), and is currently working on diverse publication projects with Routledge (UK), Les presses du réel (France) and the Presses de l’Université de Montréal (Canada). She has been a member of the board of directors of Studio 303 since 2021.
Emilie Morin is a dance and new media artist based in Montreal. She has danced onstage and on screen for over 15 years, and since 2015 has been creating her own hybrid works that commingle dance, new media and the visual arts. Her shows Trou (les beaux jours) (2015), Skype Duet (2018), All Voices, Nameless and Singular (2021), and her animated film using motion capture technology Le spectre anime nos os (2023), question the possibility of creating alternative body images using everyday digital devices.
November 22-23-24, 2023 – 7 p.m.
November 25, 2023 – 4 p.m.
Duration : 60 minutes
29$ | 35$
Meet the Artists, November 23 after the performance
Choreography Priscilla Guy & Emilie Morin
Concept Priscilla Guy, Emilie Morin & Elizabeth Millar
Performers and choreographic collaborators Priscilla Guy, Claudia Chan Tak, Harmonie Fortin-Léveillé, Marie Claire Forté
Sound design Elizabeth Millar
Sound design and dramaturgy Michel F Côté
Scenography Julie Vallée-Léger
Light design Jon Cleveland
Video design Priscilla Guy
Artistic Advisor Marie Claire Forté
Technical direction Samuel Thériault
Co-production Agora de la danse
Creative residencies Agora de la danse, CCOV, Brigittines (Belgique), PPS Danse, Centre d’arts Vaste et Vague