The presentation on stage will be accompanied by an exhibition in the Hall of the Teatro Principal with the trajectory of the choreographer and a post-show colloquium.
May 5th / 7pm
Teatro Principal
Louise Lecavalier and her partner, Frédéric Tavernini, risk all in this intense, rough, obsessive, and mysterious work set to Mercan Dede’s rhythmical, visceral music. As quick as thought, the body dictates its laws and transgresses its limits. “I wanted to allow the body to say everything it wants to say or can surprise itself by revealing, without censoring it, so that out of this profusion of spontaneous movements, something true and beyond our control emerges, something that exposes some of the meanderings, states of confusion, excesses, and contradictions we’re made of — both the darkness that inhabits us and the unbearable lightness of being and of the soul.” (Louise Lecavalier)
Louise Lecavalier worked with Édouard Lock and La La La Human Steps from 1981 to 1999, a period of exceptional intensity punctuated by works that have since become mythical along with scintillating collaborations (David Bowie, Frank Zappa)… Her extreme dance, filled with a fiery energy, caught the imagination of a whole generation. Since that time, with her own company, Fou Glorieux, a flexible structure that she founded in 2006, Louise has continued
to pursue, in solo and duet form, research based on virtuosity, the surpassing of limits and risk-taking – a quest for the absolute in which she seeks to unveil the “more-than-human within the human.”
Conceived and choreographed by: Louise Lecavalier
Created and performed by: Louise Lecavalier, Frédéric Tavernini
Assistant Choreographer and Rehearsal Director: France Bruyère
Lighting Design: Alain Lortie
Music: Mercan Dede
Additional Music: Normand-Pierre Bilodeau, Daft Punk, Meiko Kaji
Remixing Producer: Normand-Pierre Bilodeau
Costume Design: Yso
Length: 55 min
Production: Fou glorieux, in co-production with: tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf) ; Théâtre de la Ville (Paris) ; HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts Dresden ; National Arts Centre (Ottawa) ;Festival TransAmériques (Montréal) ; Residency and preview: Szene Salzburg. Louise Lecavalier is supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Montreal Arts Council.
