Sacrer – where street dance takes over the iconic Rite of Spring, revamping the music and celebrating it in the atmosphere of a cypher.
Katya Montaignac serves as the catalyst for a rich collaboration, working with the dancers to create a rejuvenated realm for this classic piece. Street dance and Stravinsky’s score have something in common. Both are surprising and uncompromising. Drawing from their lives and sharing personal experiences with the audience in this intimate work, the performers use their own vernacular to ask compelling questions. What do we do together? What do we view as “sacred”? The audience surrounds the performance space as an arena takes shape and an ad hoc community embarks on an adventurous ritual.
Katya Montaignac creates “unidentified dancing objects”. Her artistic approach favours invitation and dialogue that lead to unexpected encounters. Be they participatory shows, site-specific works, performative games or in(ter)disciplinary seminars, her work is anchored in a resolutely collective process (ODNi, La 2me Porte à Gauche, La Pieuvre…). Her projects question representation by engaging a wide diversity of bodies and voices: Pluton and ATTABLER with La 2e Porte à Gauche, Spoon with Nicolas Cantin, MashOFF with Axelle Munezero and Martine Bruneau, Nous (ne) sommes (pas) tous des danseurs with Sophie Corriveau.
Espace orange
May 11, 12, 13, 2022 – 7 p.m.
May 14, 2022 – 4 p.m.
Duration : 90 minutes
29$ | 35$
Midi-Coulisses, May 4, 2022 | Facebook Live. Voir événement
Meet the artists, May 12, 2022 after the performance
Concept & staging Katya Montaignac
Co-creators / performers Anaïs Chloé Gilles, Alizé Desrosiers, Shanyça Elie- Leconte, Walid Hammani, Mecdy Jean-Pierre, Victoria Mackenzie, Achraf Terrab
Guests Gem.In.I Movement
With the participation of Théo Durieux and Laurier Pételle
Coordinator Benoît Fareau-Gabourg aka Gem.In.I.
Artistic mentor and rehearsal director Gérard Reyes
Artistic consultant Enora Rivière
Musical collaborator Don Barbarino
Documentation (photos and video) Do Phan Hoi
Musical research and teaser Thomas Sauvé-Lafrance
Research collaborators Nindy Banks, Eloïse Caza, Junior Dorsaint, Solène Fillion, Jessica Gauthier, Jeff, Alexandra Spicey Landé, Maude Laurin-Beaulieu, Axelle Munezero, Pax, Sovann Rochon-Prom Tep, Elie-Anne Ross, Stephen Quilan, Thomas Sauvé-Lafrance and Helen Simard
Production manager Anaïs Chloé Gilles
Coproduction Agora de la danse
Creative residencies CCOV, Salle de diffusion Parc-Extension, UQAM Dance Department
