Series of four works by Quebec and Canadian artists living abroad, which evoke the movement, inheritance, exile and integration, and whose starting point is Confessions of a body of Montreal artist Pierre-Paul Savoie (Montreal). Diasporama is a journey through the eyes of choreographers from here and elsewhere.
Commissioning partners: Canada Dance Festival, L’Agora de la danse, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, The Brian Webb Dance Company, National Arts Centre, and The CanDance Network.
Mi-un, ni d'eux (1/2 One Nor Two)
Choreographer: Luc Dunberry
Performers: Pierre-Paul Savoie and Marc Boivin
Sound Design: Peter Göhler
Video Design: Karl Wedemeyer
Camera: Virgis Puodziunas and Karl Wedemeyer
Set Design: Jocelyn Proulx
Light Design: Stéphane Ménigot
Costumes: Margaretha Heller and Julio Mejia
Rehearsal Director: Ginelle Chagnon
Length: 30 minutes
This choreography delves into this inner dialogue between our rational self and our emotional self, between the cerebral and the instinctive, between the learned and the innate. Survival of the fittest. Power struggles. A constantly shifting quest for balance. In a visual environment that suggests the denaturalization of the human animal and the artificiality of the human condition, intelligent creatures with exposed hearts face off, driven by the instinct for survival and the quest for harmony.
…and the air felt like it would burst into flames
Choreography: André Gingras, in collaboration with the dancers Pierre-Paul Savaoie and Vincent Morelle
Dramaturgy and collaboration on Stage Direction: Sue Jane Stoker
Performers: Pierre-Paul Savoie and Lael Stellick
Length: 30 minutes
This piece is inspired by the work of David Wojnarowicz and Willam S. Burroughs whose artistic approach is characterized by his social criticism and his positions in regard to society. This socially engaged work reflects the poetry, humour and rebellion of these artists.
Je suis moche (I am ugly)
Choreography: Mireille Leblanc
Dramaturgy: Lise Vaillancourt
Interpreter: Pierre-Paul Savoie
Sound concept: Åke Parmerud
Lighting and scenography: Jocelyn Proulx
Length: 30 minutes
Based on the novel The Great cloakroom of Romain Gary and theater of the absurd, the piece depicts the physical and mental stripping of an aging man. He fills his loneliness by ruminating on fragments of his past and muttering things about spring and life. Using chaotic language, interweaving past and present, he is gradually revealed, leaving us to discover the layers that form this unusual character.
Bain public (Bathhouse)
After a text by Linda Mancini
Mise en scène: Linda Mancini et Pierre-Paul Savoie
Choreography: Pierre-Paul Savoie
Dramaturgy: Lise Vaillancourt
Music: Alexander MacSween
Lighting: Stéphane Ménigot
Scenography: Jocelyn Proulx
Running time: 30 minutes
Bathhouse immerses us in the throes of love-sickness to probe the depths of human nature.
Confidences d’un corps (The Telling Body)
Choreographer/Performer: Pierre-Paul Savoie
Dramaturge: Lise Vaillancourt
Music: Alexander MacSween
Set Design: Jocelyn Proulx
Light Design: Stéphane Ménigot
Repetitors: Ginelle Chagnon, Éve Lalonde and Louis Pelchat
Length: 27 minutes
Starting point of Diasporama, Confidences d’un corps (The Telling Body) is based on the notion of the body as a carrier for memory and personal history. Pierre-Paul Savoie, in an intimate solo, reveals the physiological places within his own body that hold memories both personal and universal – memories formed by ancestry, childhood, family, education and those that come by way of inheritance, both tangible and intangible.
Commissioning partners: Canada Dance Festival, L’Agora de la danse, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, The Brian Webb Dance Company, National Arts Centre, and The CanDance Network.
Mi-un, ni d'eux (1/2 One Nor Two)
Choreographer: Luc Dunberry
Performers: Pierre-Paul Savoie and Marc Boivin
Sound Design: Peter Göhler
Video Design: Karl Wedemeyer
Camera: Virgis Puodziunas and Karl Wedemeyer
Set Design: Jocelyn Proulx
Light Design: Stéphane Ménigot
Costumes: Margaretha Heller and Julio Mejia
Rehearsal Director: Ginelle Chagnon
Length: 30 minutes
This choreography delves into this inner dialogue between our rational self and our emotional self, between the cerebral and the instinctive, between the learned and the innate. Survival of the fittest. Power struggles. A constantly shifting quest for balance. In a visual environment that suggests the denaturalization of the human animal and the artificiality of the human condition, intelligent creatures with exposed hearts face off, driven by the instinct for survival and the quest for harmony.
…and the air felt like it would burst into flames
Choreography: André Gingras, in collaboration with the dancers Pierre-Paul Savaoie and Vincent Morelle
Dramaturgy and collaboration on Stage Direction: Sue Jane Stoker
Performers: Pierre-Paul Savoie and Lael Stellick
Length: 30 minutes
This piece is inspired by the work of David Wojnarowicz and Willam S. Burroughs whose artistic approach is characterized by his social criticism and his positions in regard to society. This socially engaged work reflects the poetry, humour and rebellion of these artists.
Je suis moche (I am ugly)
Choreography: Mireille Leblanc
Dramaturgy: Lise Vaillancourt
Interpreter: Pierre-Paul Savoie
Sound concept: Åke Parmerud
Lighting and scenography: Jocelyn Proulx
Length: 30 minutes
Based on the novel The Great cloakroom of Romain Gary and theater of the absurd, the piece depicts the physical and mental stripping of an aging man. He fills his loneliness by ruminating on fragments of his past and muttering things about spring and life. Using chaotic language, interweaving past and present, he is gradually revealed, leaving us to discover the layers that form this unusual character.
Bain public (Bathhouse)
After a text by Linda Mancini
Mise en scène: Linda Mancini et Pierre-Paul Savoie
Choreography: Pierre-Paul Savoie
Dramaturgy: Lise Vaillancourt
Music: Alexander MacSween
Lighting: Stéphane Ménigot
Scenography: Jocelyn Proulx
Running time: 30 minutes
Bathhouse immerses us in the throes of love-sickness to probe the depths of human nature.
Confidences d’un corps (The Telling Body)
Choreographer/Performer: Pierre-Paul Savoie
Dramaturge: Lise Vaillancourt
Music: Alexander MacSween
Set Design: Jocelyn Proulx
Light Design: Stéphane Ménigot
Repetitors: Ginelle Chagnon, Éve Lalonde and Louis Pelchat
Length: 27 minutes
Starting point of Diasporama, Confidences d’un corps (The Telling Body) is based on the notion of the body as a carrier for memory and personal history. Pierre-Paul Savoie, in an intimate solo, reveals the physiological places within his own body that hold memories both personal and universal – memories formed by ancestry, childhood, family, education and those that come by way of inheritance, both tangible and intangible.
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