Crimson Coast Dance is honoured to open our 2025/26 season with Confession Publique.

This thought-provoking show will grip your sensibilities — weaving together music, theatre, spoken word and dance in a powerful reflection on humanity’s yearning for validation and the complex interplay of power and vulnerability that evokes.

Ideated, directed, and choreographed by Mélanie Demers (Montreal) and brought to life on stage by Angélique Willkie with the participation of Anne-Marie Jourdenais and an original score by Frannie Holder, the essence of the show is in its process. The trust that emerges from the profound encounter between the artists allows for a total unveiling, a courageous laying bare of the inner paradoxes we all face daily.

Confession Publique immerses the audience in a duel between intimacy and publicity. It’s through this push and pull that we can observe our shortcomings, nurse our scars, and contemplate our faults. It’s through our flaws, our fractures, and our fissures that we find our authenticity. The visceral experience of these concepts, expressed in this work of performance art, offers to glue these fragments of ourselves back together.