Some Hope for the Bastards - DLD | Direction artistique Frédérick Gravel

A melancholic party, a dark celebration. A poetic hymn dedicated to the feeling of helplessness and apathy. When you don’t know where to go, you just wait. We are all waiting for something, but this has a cost, the waiting is eating up our interiors. Conditioned as we are, no room as ever been left for any patience.

Once more accompanied by his “GAnG” of dancers and musicians, Frédérick Gravel presents a choreographic concert filled with a frankly corrosive energy.

This blend of choreography and music, with its narcotic, pounding pop beats and grotesquely unhinged limbs, is something everyone should have seen.

– Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich, Germany)

Some Hope for the Bastards, de Frédérick Gravel. © Stéphane Najman : with Dany Desjardins, Alexia Martel, Frédéric Tavernini, Alanna Kraaijeveld, Frédérick Gravel, Francis Ducharme, David Albert-Toth

Some hope for the bastards, de Frédérick Gravel © Laurent Philippe_avec Alanna Kraaijeveld, S-X.Lefebvre, N.Dufour-Campeau, J-B.Labrecque, Dany Desjardins, Philippe Brault, J.Major,, Frédérick Gravel

Some hope for the bastards, de Frédérick Gravel. © Stéphane Najman : Kimberley de Jong, David Albert-Toth, Jamie Wright, Lucie Vigneault, Francis Ducharme, Frederic Tavernini

Created in 2017

CREDITS

Concept and artistic direction Frédérick Gravel
Choreography Frédérick Gravel in collaboration with the dancers
Performers at creations David Albert-Toth + Dany Desjardins + Kimberley De Jong + Francis Ducharme + Louise Michel Jackson + Alanna Kraaijeveld + Alexia Martel + Frédéric Tavernini + Jamie Wright
Also engaged in the creation Lucie Vigneault + Hanako Hoshimi-Caine
Musicians Philippe Brault + José Major + Frédérick Gravel
Music Direction Philippe Brault
Composition Philippe Brault in collaboration with Frédérick Gravel and José Major
Rehearsal Director Lucie Vigneault
Light design Alexandre Pilon-Guay
Technical Direction David-Alexandre Chabot and Alexandre Pilon-Guay
Sound design Louis Carpentier
Costumes design Catherine Théroux
External Eye Angélique Wilkie

PRODUCTION

Production Frédérick Gravel + DLD – Daniel Léveillé Danse
Co-production CanDance Network Creation Fund + Festival TransAmériques (Montréal) + Centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie + Muffatwerk (Munich) + The National Arts Centre (Ottawa) + The Banff Centre + PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (Vancouver) + Usine C (Montréal)
With the support of Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec + Canada Council for the Arts

Frédérick Gravel is a member of Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique.

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 …

SOLO 2024

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.