Five bodies move to the rhythm of a metronome. Their mechanical gestures are endlessly reprised, the machine runs wild and demands their absolute compliance. With her ripened artistic language, choreographer Catherine Gaudet seeks a space within bodies where desires can be reborn despite the burden of constriction.
This seemingly harmless collective score, with its orderly routes, gives off a scent of cheap veneer that will soon end up cracking. Attuned to the conflicting throbbing of her era, Gaudet surrounds herself with her loyal collaborators to explore the false pretenses of the show business apparatus. After a while, repetition reveals itself to be the troublemaker among the dancers-turned-instrumentalists. It pushes open the whistling valve to release the excess vapour of salted bodies. Indeed, de-pressure is the flip side of grandiosity. Here, the risk of tastelessness is all too real, but necessary in order to maintain balance.
Created in 2022
CREDITS
A creation by Catherine Gaudet
Performers at creation Caroline Gravel, Francis Ducharme, James Phillips, Scott McCabe, Leïla Mailly
Music Antoine Berthiaume
Assistant dramaturge and rehearsal director Sophie Michaud
Lighting Hugo Dalphond
Costumes Marilène Bastien
Substitute performer for first broadcast: Lauren Semeschuck
PRODUCTION
Production Compagnie Catherine Gaudet
Co-production Festival TransAmériques + Agora de la danse + Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen + Réseau CanDance (Toronto) + Centre national des Arts (Ottawa) + Harbourfront Center (Toronto) + DLD
Creative residencies DLD + Agora de la danse
Development DLD + Marie-Andrée Gougeon
Catherine Gaudet is a member of Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique (Montréal)
