The artist is inviting the public to walk through the urban landscape blindfolded. Guides will take each participant individually, assuring their safety and steering their experience. Actors and musicians will mix with the crowd in order to create a surprising adventure, sometimes comforting, sometimes exhilarating, sometimes meditative, bringing the public not only into the city’s chaos and also inside their own interior world. COLLABORATORS : Camille Badaoui, Rachel Billet, Marie-Pier Labbé, Manuel Shink + invités.
BIO / JÉRÉMIE CHÉTRIT Jeremie Chetrit is a choreographer, dancer and bodyworker. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College (USA), and has studied movement with Sara Shelton Mann, Frey Faust, Karl Frost, Kirstie Simpson, Simone Forti, Danny Lepkoff, Hiroko Tamano et Diego Piñon, among others. In 2008, he performed in San Francisco with Keith Hennessy’s company, Circo Zero, and in 2010, went on his first Canadian tour with The Duck Wife. Since 2004, he has been teaching contact improvisation ; since 2006, aerial silks. He is interested in transforming public and shared spaces, as well as inner space--from perception to sensation to our relationship to other bodies. Since 2007, his practice of cranio-sacral therapy (which he studies with the Milne Institute) and of the Axis Syllabus technique have reshaped the way he looks at dance. Since opening his eyes to the world, he seeks to make art that shakes and confronts, that flaps its tiny wings so hard it will one day create a tornado. BIO / MARIE-PIER LABBÉ Trained in creative writing and theatre (Université Laval) and dance (Butoh, Contact Improvisation dance), Marie-Pier Labbé has lately been working on her song-writing project that culminated in a self-produced EP, “Chansons pour les nuques”. She is currently collaborating with Les ViVaces, a Montreal-based theatre group focused on environment awareness and sustainable living. Street theatre and animation in schools are the shapes it often takes. Marie-Pier is now dreaming of going out into the street and performing her songs there. BIO / MANUEL SHINK Manuel Shink grew up surrounded by strawberry and corn fields. Thinking to become either a dentist or a sailor, his path bifurcated into the world of artistic creation, where he used sounds, images, and performance to break from the everyday. Approaching dance as an expressive work-out which benefits both his spiritual and relational growth, he has, to date, completed his dance training at Ladmmi and worked with Le Fils D’Adrien Danse (Harold Rhéaume), Code Universel (Daniel Bélanger), Human Playground (Milan Gervais), Lucie Grégoire Danse, and Andrew Turner. A seasoned improviser, he has been dancing with the Imprudanses league for the past four years. This summer, Manuel is working on bringing his butoh dance and clowning practices together to make shows that touch people. BIO / RACHEL BILLET Invested in the contemporary dance milieu as an improviser, devoted spectator, producer and administrator, Rachel Billet loves exploring diverse ways of keeping herself aware of innovations that can push her interests beyond movement and towards other arts. When she was just a child, she discovered the Rouge Malice Company where she developed her voice, and later, dance improvisation and spontaneous composition. She has been proactive, since 2009, in Montreal-based Association for Contact Improvisation (ACI) and has participated in most of their events and jams. In 2010, she obtained a master in Arts and Culture Professions at Lyon 2 University in France and has since joined La 2e Porte à Gauche company. She has also collaborated with Hallet Eghayan company, Käfig Company, the Biennale de la danse (Lyon), Tangente, Human Playground and Mama Dances (Montréal). |
