Between Holding – Bulbe Collective | 12:00 pm | Place des festivals
Description
Between Holding explores the sense of security we feel when we hold on to a precious moment for a while. Because we cannot hang on to this comforting feeling forever, we must learn to let it go and give it up. But what happens in between? Why do we feel scared as we let go? To express this concern through movement, Bulbe Collective drew their inspiration from tornadoes. An unconscious body relaxes, allowing itself to survive despite the violence of the storm.
On the other hand, Between Holdings talks about loneliness and the uncertainty it brings. As infants and toddlers, we are completely dependent on others to learn to walk, eat, dress… we are powerless and always with someone else. Newborns express their needs without question. Ironically, as their relationship to their own needs changes, adults can have difficulty communicating with others around them. In this new creation, Bulbe Collective showcases our needs, the evolution of our relationship with them over time, and the role our community plays in this relationship.
Artists
Claire Campbell
Emma-Lynn Mackay-Ronacher
Sylvia Berman
Florence Hughes
Sophie Qin
Jessica Muszynski
Anja Fanslau
The Royal We – Jake Poloz | 4:00 pm | Bassin-à-Gravier
Description
For this piece, I’m interested in the ways our ambitions become the central story of our lives. Often, the dedicated pursuit of our ambitions forms our worldview, or “purpose”. This purpose leads us to join communities, and to alter our social performance to fit in. What begins as a goal forms our entire way of being. But what happens to our public and private selves if we decide to reject this purpose? Maybe we stop believing in its importance, or maybe we realize that it’s not worth the sacrifices it demands from us to achieve it. What does it look like to embody a purpose-based identity, and what does it look like when that purpose is stripped away?
Artists
Eleanor Van Veen
Jake Poloz
Échos migratoires – Collectif Tondoa | 4:00 pm | Bassin-à-Gravier
Description
Échos migratoires studies migration, comparing the migratory instincts of animals and the economic and sociopolitical influences on population migrations. Throughout the piece, Afro-Columbian dances reminds us of the Tondoa Artistic Organization’s origins. A true inspiration for the choreography, animal movements are used to showcase the migratory and adaptation process to a new environment. Such movements create a hybrid character who is transformed by his choices, experiences, and environment.
For the FQD, Tondoa will perform a 5-minute version of Échos migratoires, a 30-minute original piece currently under development with the support of Montréal Arts Interculturels (MAI) and Festival Quartiers Danses.
Artists
Daniel Felipe Diaz
Juan Sebastian Hoyos Correa
Camila Petro
Nicole Speare
Milena Yanes
De Sève – Anna Lamontagne | 4:00 pm | Bassin-à-Gravier
Description
Creator and performer of this solo piece, Anna Lamontagne uses movement to portray a person’s idea of immediacy within a collective introspection. Touching on the power and presence of knowing and listening to our own body, she wonders how to unite our inner landscape with the outside world that keeps our body upright, and how to learn to trust our instincts. De Sève highlights how important it is to slow down, learn to understand the world within and around us, and put down roots.
“My forests sleep naked,
Waiting for the wind
That will make them stumble
Like drunken beasts
Walking towards their roots”
(Loose translation of an extract from Helène Dorion’s volume of poetry “My Forests”)
Artist
Anna Lamontagne
Production of the promotional video : Vincent Gasparini
Alone in the Living Room – Nicole Jacobs | 4:00 pm | Bassin-à-Gravier
Description
Nicole Jacobs creates and performs the acrobatic contemporary solo Alone in the Living Room. When spending too much time in one place, we start to lose touch with our rational selves. The piece invites us to dive into an imaginary world and play with the frontier between reality and illusion. The broken story is expressed through fluid acrobatics and a dynamic and powerful physicality. The audience becomes the performer’s mirror, inviting her to think about her self-image. We are transported to our ever-changing inner selves, in a journey to meet our inner self through our daily experiences.
Artist
Nicoles Jacobs
Credits
Mentor : Stéphanie Decourteille
Music : Marilou Buron
Lighting : Guillaume Roberts-Cambron
Photographe : David Wong
El kamar bi zaher– Chanel Cheiban | 4:00 pm | Bassin-à-Gravier
Description
El kamar bi zaher is choreographed and performed by Chanel Cheiban. It bridges the various chapters of her life, shaping her quest to find her roots in Lebanon. Meaning “The flowering moon”, El kamar bi zaher symbolizes her inner universe, her sacred feminine side. She wakes up cleansed and freed from her emotional experiences, becoming more mature in the process. Deconstructing taboos and stereotypes about cultural differences, she studies the feeling of powerlessness they bring, especially to Middle-Eastern women. Inspired by Middle Eastern and Arabic culture, El kamar bi zaher criticizes such stereotypes to link them to basic principles. Music, symbols, mysticism, and history all become her way to personify an overwhelming reality.
Artist
Chanel Cheiban
External eyes : Sofia El Iraki , Rameez Karim, Fatima Terhini, Jade Maya Gabriele et Shanyça Elie le Conte
Music : De.Ville – The love we lost
Oudist, guitarist : Nadine Altounji
Darbuka : Anas Jellouf
Singing : Najla Jaffel
Photographe : Étienne de Durocher
Acknowledgment : residence : Circuit-Est / Nyata Nyata / Danses Laurentides /Écotone – Espace d’expérimentation / École de danse contemporaine de Montréal / Espace Ouvert
Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec – vivacité
