Uriel Barthélémi - Entissar Al Hamdany - Dana Michel - Julie Perrin - Alexandre St-Onge
Free admission, ticket required
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6:00 pm
Souls’ Landscapes
Uriel Barthélémi and Entissar Al Hamdany
Souls’ Landscape is a performance that features hip-hop dancer Entissar Al Hamday and musician-composer Uriel Barthélémi. The duo recounts fragments from life that are beyond words. The site of their encounter—the stage—allows them to embody a moment that can only be expressed between, and beyond, the two of them.
Entissar Al Hamdany is a hip-hop dancer. He has performed in numerous dance festivals internationally.
Uriel Barthélémi is a drummer, composer, and electro-acoustic musician. He regularly collaborates with a variety of artists, including Kazuyuki Kishino (KK NULL), Tarek Atoui, Tim Etchells, Nikhil Chopra, Hassan Khan, and Taro Shinoda.
7:00 pm
DON’T PICK THAT UP
Dana Michel
DON’T PICK THAT UP is a continuation of
LIFT THAT UP, a work presented in 2016 at Toronto’s Progress Festival and curated by Dancemakers in an attempt to challenge the choreographer to stray from solo projects and create a group piece that would reflect on what togetherness could mean in that place and time. This lead to thoughts about workforce, potentially never ending labour and its antithesis: leisure. Ideas that were set against Michel’s continuing interest in what she calls “skins” as well as the relationship between body, memory, materials and co-presence.
Dana Michel is a choreographer and live artist. She counts among her recent accomplishments and recognitions: the ImPulsTanz Award (Vienna, 2014); the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale (2017); first ever dance artist in residence at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa (2018) and the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art (2019). Based in Montréal, she is an associate artist with Par B.L.eux.
7:30 pm
Workshop
Chantal Pontbriand
Prelude 4: “Feels good, Looks good, Sounds good, Feels good too (Uh-huh that’s right).”
Julie Perrin
Vers une approche chorégraphique des situations
How does one exist in a contemporary world, that is, to be here, in relation to others and to non-human entities, in a way that brings forth situations worth experiencing? This universal question is also the driving force of many contemporary choreographers. Their activity consists perhaps less in producing dance pieces to look at than inventing moments of encounter –whether public or not – where knowledge is summoned in different ways. The goal is to create a relationship to time, space, and experience; of giving shape to various ways of being together, starting with what and who is present.
Julie Perrin (Paris) is a research professor in the Department of Dance at the Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis, and member of the Institut universitaire de France. Her research and numerous publications examine contemporary dance in the United States and France since 1945, more specifically, spatiality and site-specific choreography. See, among others,
Histoire(s) et lectures: Trisha Brown/Emmanuelle Huynh, co-edited with D. Luccioni (2012).
Alexandre St-Onge
Être ce n’est pas nécessairement être perçu
In this performance-lecture, the performative body’s transformation through its aural, textual, and visual mediation is the core from which stems the question of the heuristic potential of a relationship that is hospitable to the emergence of independent beings constituting the basis of artistic process. Considering that causes and ideas are often elusive or mysterious, an understanding of the actual relationship between things is essential to discovering conceptual entities that exceed all primary intentions. Focusing on relationships rather than on essence involves a transformative process that guarantees future hospitality, since the loss of the source encourages mental emancipation.
Alexandre St-Onge (Québec) is an interdisciplinary artist who is very active on the Canadian and international art scene. His work explores how the performative body transforms itself through sound, textual and visual mediations. He holds a PhD in Études et pratiques des arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal, and teaches at the École d’art de l’Université Laval. The notion of creativity as a pragmatic approach to the ungraspable is at the core of his research.
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