Video interview
Danse Mutante – Video 9
Place
2020Director
Xavier CurnillonLength
3 min 45Production
MAYDAY and the Fondation Jean-Pierre PerreaultConcept and artistic direction
Mélanie DemersChoreography
Mélanie Demers, Ann Liv Young, Kettly Noël, Ann Van den Broek, in collaboration with the dancersDancers
Francis Ducharme, Riley SimsDramaturgy
Angélique WillkieRehearsal Direction
Anne-Marie JourdenaisAssistant to the choreographer
Nik Rajšek (M3)Lighting
Alexandre Pilon-Guay (V0+M1+M2+M3), Ann Van den Broek (M3)Technical Direction
Julien VeronneauSound
David BlouinOriginal Music
Mykalle Bielinski (V0)Soundscape
David Blouin (V0), Olivier Girouard (V0)Singer-songwriter
Tom Barman Live for the song Everybody's weird (M3)Sound Counselor
Nicolas Rambouts (M3)Costumes
Mélanie Demers, Ann Liv Young, Kettly Noël, Ann Van den Broek, Max-Otto FauteuxCreative residencies
Centre de Création O Vertigo (V0), Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique (V0+M1+M2), Donko Seko (M2), cultuurcentrum Berchem (M3), Theater Rotterdam (M3), Agora de la danse (V0+M1+M2+M3)
While Mélanie was working on assembling all the mutations into a final work, she met with Marie-Louise Arsenault from the Radio-Canada program Plus on est de fous, plus on lit. Here she reads a text from Cantique, the work she originally created for Danse Mutante.
Project
Co-production
Danse mutante is a bold collective project that explores the mutation of a dance work, as well as ideas around transmission and performers’ authority and creative contribution. In the words of the project creator Mélanie Demers: “Danse Mutante is a duet performed by Francis Ducharme…
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For more information visit the French version of this article: https://espaceperreault.ca/fr/collection/la-voix-du-corps-danse/
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