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Performance | Partnership Presentation
Daina Ashbee
J’ai pleuré avec les chiens (Time, Creation, Destruction)
The first group piece by the prolific Daina Ashbee, J’ai pleuré avec les chiens (TIME, CREATION, DESTRUCTION 2021) plunges into states of being with both sober and incisive precision. Far from any possible attempts at categorization or binary representation, the naked and gaping bodies pierced by chants attempt to come closer together, pile up in vanishing lines – before breaking apart. Connection then emerges, in poetics of deflagration and trance, while the sounds produced by the bodies generate movements, growls, yelps, cries and calls. True flesh channels, the performers transmit myriads of stories, embodying a web of possibilities where everything can coexist. Because everything is transitory, fleeting, and forges a sensory experience where the sensitive configuration shapes a ritual of cohabitation and decompartmentalization. This work inspired by the density and complexity of human structure, explores its entrails, its thought processes, its energy and its life force.
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This performance takes place in the round and therefore has limited capacity
Artistic Director and Choreographer: Daina Ashbee
Rehearsal Director: Gabriel Nieto
Performers: Audrey Sides, Irene Martinez, Benjamin Kamino, Imara Bosco, Elise Vanderborght, Celia Green
Mentor: Benoît LaChambre
Lighting Designer: TBC
Musical compilation: Sean MacPherson, Daina Ashbee, Gabriel Nieto
Audio text : Louise Hay
Text (Française) : Nayla Naoufal
CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS
KVS Brussels Stadstheater, Festival TransAmériques – FTA, Agora de la danse, Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (FR), BIT Teatergarasjen (NO), National Arts Centre, Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV, EMPAC / Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY
RESIDENCY PARTNERS
KVS Brussels Stadstheater, Harbourfront Centre (TO), Montpellier Danse (FR)
FUNDING PARTNER
Developed with support from the National Art Centre’s National Creation Fund, Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres de Québec
Presented with the Vancouver International Dance Festival
Photo by Stephanie Paillet
Sponsors/Partners
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