SOLO 2024

Manuel Roque, par Marilène Bastien

SOLO 2024 : SOLO 2024: Manuel Roque’s latest project

Starting from a complex and agitated post-pandemic context, Manuel Roque formulates a series of fundamental questions:

How can we start moving again after a period of inertia? How to move? To what end? To say what? The notions of uncertainty, wandering and fumbling quickly asserted themselves.

How does the body organize itself in a permanent situation of imbalance in order to renew momentum?

This notion of imbalance on a physical level, through the writing of a choreographic score where the absence of perfect verticality predominates, makes the body evolve in a dimension that challenges with the notion of directionality.

To translate this notion of directionality, Manuel Roque draws on the use of repetitive patterns and morphing that previously guided him in bang bang and Sierranevada. These repeated patterns and incremental variations illustrate the idea of a journey that the body traverses and writes in the moment: from a point of departure, interspersed with stages, successive transformations and potential moments of grace, up to the point of arrival.

I've always been interested in the solo format. I find that the main challenge of this format lies in its integrity and singularity, something that revolves around the notion of identity and how this singularity of identity echoes a collective identity. For through the act of actually sharing the performance, it's important to me that the audience can connect (project or identify itself) with what's being conveyed.

Manuel Roque

SOLO 2024 | CREDITS

Choreography: Manuel Roque
Interpretation: Manuel Roque
Doubler/ Apprentice: Nils Levazeux
Lighting design: Karine Gauthier
Costumes: Marilène Bastien
Artistic assistants: Lucie Vigneault and Sophie Corriveau
Outside eye: Sophie Corriveau

Residency: La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines
Executive production: DLD

Shows

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ODE

Ten performers, hand in hand like a chain of paper dolls, form a pop-pagan procession. Their bliss is divine: you want to sink into their idyllic world, bask in the same sunshine …

How can we start moving again after a period of inertia? How to move? To what end? To say what?

Civilization and Its Discontents

Walkers arrive in a theatre without caring about the decorum.

SIERRANEVADA

Navigating between control and letting go, SIERRANEVADA is nothing more or less than an exercise, a laboratory practice where the performer/creator strives to explore the intricacies of their imagination.

Amour, acide et noix

Amour, acide et noix is the first work of a trilogy in which organic life is read on the skin of dancers subjected to impossible physical demands.

Fear and Greed

Frédérick Gravel returns on stage, in a solo for the first time. With his singular dance, his guitar and supported by three musicians, he is ready to make noise, but also silences.