2024 edition: Série B is back in force for its 4th edition!
From 11 to 16 November 2024, DLD is bringing you an ambitious programme. Presented in conjunction with the CINARS Biennial, Série B is a meeting place for professionals and the local public, offering opportunities for encounters and discoveries.
This year, Série B is pleased to present 9 works by artists from the worlds of dance, theatre and music. Artists who invite us to connect with and celebrate our vulnerability. Far from being a weakness, our vulnerability is a privileged path to connection, making it a catalyst for change. Alongside DLD’s associate artists, the 2024 edition of Série B welcomes two international projects and two projects by emerging Montreal artists.
SHOWCASING:
All Hell is Breaking Loose, Honey: Frédérick Gravel
Amour, acide et noix: Daniel Léveillé
The Wind Rises: Manuel Roque
GEO: Temporary Collective
The Pretty Things : Catherine Gaudet
Civilization and Its Discontents: Étienne Lepage + Alix Dufresne
bang bang (version for two) : Manuel Roque
La grande mascarade: Étienne Lou + Gabriel-Antoine Roy
Taranto Aleatorio: María Del Mar Suárez « La Chachi » + Lola Dolores
Corps.Route.Ride: Projet Alterdogs (Claire Pearl + Léonie Bélanger)
RESERVATIONS:
CINARS delegates: Via the CINARS Biennial Swapcard application (available soon)
Shuttles:
11 November: Toute se pète la gueule, chérie
6.45pm: Hôtel Bonaventure → Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto
12 November: Amour, acide et noix + GEO
7:15pm: Théâtre Maisonneuve (SLAM!) → Maison de la culture de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Monkland (Amour, acide et noix, 8pm)
9pm: Maison de la culture de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Monkland (Amour, acide et noix) → Théâtre Mainline (GEO, 9:30pm)
November 14: La grande mascarade + Taranto Aleatorio
5:10pm: Wilder Building (PlayDead) → Patro Villeray (La grande mascarade, 6pm)
7pm: Patro Villeray (La grande mascarade) → Mainline Theatre (Taranto Aleatorio, 8pm)
16 November: La grande mascarade + Corps.Route.Ride + The Wind Rises
11:30am: Hôtel Bonaventure → Patro Villeray (La grande mascarade + Corps.Route.Ride, 12:30pm)
2:40pm: Patro Villeray (La grande mascarade + Corps.Route.Ride) → La Chapelle (The Wind Rises, 3:30pm)
Members of the public to attend shows (except for performances reserved for presenters) must book through the links below each show.
Photo : Mirabel White, avec Dany Desjardins
Unconventional male quartet that tackles with great candor the disarray of the North American cis man, his ridicule, his stupidity, his vanity, his excessive violence, but also his vulnerability, his confusion and his aspiration to become better. Irresistible spiral of bodies and music, All Hell is Breaking Loose, Honey is a generous, rallying piece that uncompromisingly embraces our ill-beings.
Date: 11 November | 7.30pm
Location: Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto
Photo : Donatas Alisauskas, avec Scott McCabe, Lauren Semeschuk, James Phillips, Caroline Gravel et Dany Desjardins
[For CINARS delegates only]
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.
Date: 12 November | 12.00pm
Location: Circuit-est : Studio C
1881 Rue Saint-André, Montréal
Photo : Julie Artacho, avec Lou Amsellem, Marco Arzenton, Marco Curci et Jimmy Gonzalez
Four bodies given over to the dance, reveal what has taken refuge behind the strange, opaque skin. Amour, acide et noix speaks of solitude, but also of the infinite tenderness of touch, amid the harshness of life. Daniel Léveillé presents nudity as the only true alternative to the reading of the body, frank and free of false modesty.
Date: 12 November | 8.00pm
Location: Maison de la culture de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Monkland, Salle Iro-Valaskakis-Tembeck
Date: 13 November | 7.30pm
Location: Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal
Photo : Robin Pineda Gould, avec Manuel Roque
A body wanders, twirls, tries to anchor itself to an empty space… An organic piece, The Wind Rises unfolds to the rhythm of repetitive patterns, gradually bringing momentum to life under the crumbling weight of inertia. How does one regain one’s sense of direction in a chaotic context?
Date: 12 + 13 + 15 November | 8.00pm + 16 November | 3.30pm
Location: La Chapelle, Scènes Contemporaines
Shuttle: 16 November
Photo : Vojtěch Brtnický, avec Tereza Ondrová
GEO is a solo by Tereza Ondrová that relates her 21 year history of creating and performing at PONEC theatre in Prague to the geological history of the surrounding landscape and ground below. GEO brings into focus the overlapping archives of her own body, her repertoire, the history of the theatre and the land it stands on.
Date : 12 November | 9.30pm + 13 November | 6.00pm
Location: Théâtre MainLine
Shuttle: 12 November
****As part of the official programming of the CINARS Biennial****
Malaise dans la civilisation (Civilization and Its Discontents) presents four walkers who disembark in a theatre without a care for decorum. Alternatively reserved or expansive, clumsy or careless, the companions explore the space, jostling it and forgetting themselves in the rhythm of small ordinary accidents. Both philosophical and driven, their impulses will leave nothing untouched.
Date: 13 November | 2.00 pm
Location: GESÙ
Photo : Sarah Chelhot, avec Manuel Roque et Nils Levazeux
bang bang is a hardship. Involving a repetition of jumps and athletic patterns counted in 11, it demands exceptional concentration and physical commitment from the performers. A hardship that gradually drips with combativeness and resistance, revealing the human-performer’s flaws. As a pair, the ordeal becomes a sharing of strengths and weaknesses, where continuing to jump becomes at once absurd, poetic and political.
Date: 14 November | 4.00pm
Location: Écomusée du fier monde
Photo : Alexis Boulay, avec Étienne Lou et Gabriel-Antoine Roy
The curtain rises, like a loud cry that tears through the night. Two acrobats in tights arrive on stage, with masks on their faces, and pirouettes and confetti in their arsenal! Are you ready to discover the highs and lows of acting? Will they be able to hold onto the audience’s good will..?
Date: 14 November | 6.00pm + 16 November | 12.30pm (double bill, followed by Corps.Route.Ride)
Location: Patro Villeray
Shuttle: November 14
Shuttle: November 16
Photo : Enekofilmaker. 21 Distritos, avec La Chachi + Lola Dolores
Two women eat sunflower seeds in a park, a doorway or a courtyard. The cante (singing) and baile (dancing) suddenly burst forth, transforming the mundane scene into a magic intimate spectacle. Together, they embark on an intimate take of this palo’s stark rawness, with irreverence and humour.
Location: Mainline Theatre
Date: 14 November | 8.00pm + 15 November | 12.45pm
Shuttle: 14 November
Photo : David Ospina, Avec Claire Pearl et Léonie Bélanger
In a science-fiction world called ALTERMUNDI, an imaginary racetrack remains. As an anti-tribute to automobile culture, Corps. Route Ride. unfolds, step by step, the dehumanisation created by industrial progress. Gradually, the bodies undergo various physical transformations, navigating a continuum between the natural and the artificial.
DOUBLE BILL : PRECEDED BY LA GRANDE MASCARADE
Date: 16 novembre | 2.00pm
Location: Patro Villeray
Shuttle:
Série B would like to thank its partners:
