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Three books for nourishing the dance community!

C’est avec le cœur rempli de joie et d’espoir qu’Espace Perreault invite tout le milieu de la danse et ses publics à prendre part à sa nouvelle campagne de financement afin de soutenir la réalisation de trois publications uniques et inspirantes.

Conversations plurielles avec le vivant sous formes relationnelles, sensibles, végétales ou hors les cadres, ces différents projets touchent à la danse dans ce qu’elle porte de plus intime et de plus singulier.

With our hearts full of joy and hope, Espace Perreault invites the dance community and its audiences to take part in its new fundraising campaign in support of three unique and inspiring publications.

Using relational, sensory, botanical forms or forms that defy categorization, these projects are multifaceted conversations with the living world, touching on what is most intimate and distinctive about dance.

Thanks to your donations, Espace Perreault will lift up new voices and help nourish a dance community that is hungry for the words and thoughts of local artists.

The three projects

Today and Today and Today, by Marie Claire Forté with Peter Boneham and guests

Part articulation of movement principles, part pretext to spend time with one of my favourite avant-garde artists, part experiment on writing about a dance teaching practice, and part conversation on life, this project aims to capture something of Peter Boneham’s sixty-year œuvre as a dance teacher, and our relationship through and beyond dance.

—Marie Claire Forté

Excerpt

MCF How do you inspire people’s thirst, including your own?

PB    The few questions I ask: Why are you here? What do you want to take from this experience? Is there something you want to leave behind? And I remind us: there is no work. This defends the idea that an artist isn’t doing work. We are doing what we are doing because we are compelled to, it answers a need in us… It’s also getting a vibe from people.

Carnet de traces, zine by Sara Hanley

I would like to share a score with four artists – who will each cover one season – so that after our encounters we can create notebooks that trace our explorations and experiences of being present with the living world. These experimental, cobbled-together notebooks will be situated between archive and transmission tool, honouring relationships with the plant world and a sensitive ecology of the gesture.

Excerpt

A few years ago, I started a year-long research project during which I tracked milkweed, a plant indigenous to Quebec. I let myself be guided by tracing its presence in the world around me. I made it my mentor. What happens when a plant becomes my education?

—Sara Hanley

Mouvement de passage, Le Radeau

Through dance, music, and a fully attuned presence, every encounter between a dancer and a resident of a long-term care facility becomes an ephemeral work of art. Featuring photographs, artists’ accounts, residents’ words, and interviews with care staff, the publication will present the world of Mouvement de passage. Let’s put our heads and our hearts together for a dance, a song, or a small gesture, both subtle and grand.

—Mélina Schoenborn, project officer

Excerpt

One day, as I was dancing in the hallway, I glimpsed a woman in her room, sitting by the window. Her head was resting on her arm, and she was lost in thought, staring into the distance. I stepped into the room and placed my hand on hers, and it suddenly felt as though we had been transported to the same place, into her world. We moved our hands together. They rose and danced like curls of smoke. When we were done, the woman said to me, ‘Thank you, I was feeling so lonely.’

—Isabelle Poirier, dancer

Take part in our fundraising campaign!

Support one publication in particular or all the publications. It’s up to you!

You will receive an income tax receipt, no matter the amount of the donation.

On behalf of the authors and the dance community, thank you from the bottom of our hearts!