Les dix commandements: Encounters (1998–2021)

2020 – 2023 (ongoing)
Co-production

In 1998, Harold Rhéaume created his first major work, Les dix commandements, which examines complex issues related to the values and moral codes that hold a society together. His company, Le fils d’Adrien danse, celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2021. To mark the occasion, it revisited this mythical and emblematic work.

To encourage reflection on transmission and memory, and to honour the participation of dancers in the creative process, the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault, in close collaboration with Le fils d’Adrien danse, launched a major project: Les dix commandements: Encounters (1998–2021). The project consists of ten meetings between the original and current dancers, who will talk about the work, its meaning and its score.

Events

Documents

Video interview

Relentlessness — Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day. Suzanne Trépanier meets Misheel Ganbold (excerpt)

Relentlessness — Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day Harold Rhéaume interviews Misheel Ganbold dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Suzanne Trépanier, dancer of the 1998 version. To see the full version: here

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Relentlessness — Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day. Suzanne Trépanier meets Misheel Ganbold

Relentlessness — Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day Harold Rhéaume interviews Misheel Ganbold dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Suzanne Trépanier, dancer of the 1998 version.

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Greed — Thou shalt not steal. Eric Bernier meets Nicholas Bellefleur (excerpt)

Greed — Thou shalt not steal Harold Rhéaume interviews Nicholas Bellefleur dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Eric Bernier, dancer of the 1998 version. To see the full version: here

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Greed — Thou shalt not steal. Eric Bernier meets Nicholas Bellefleur

Greed — Thou shalt not steal Harold Rhéaume interviews Nicholas Bellefleur dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Eric Bernier, dancer of the 1998 version. Each revisiting their roles, the artists discuss the particularities of dance and theatre and today’s clear interdisciplinarity;…

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Destruction — Thou shalt not kill. Jacques Moisan meets Alexandre Carlos (excerpt)

Destruction – That shalt not kill (excerpt) Harold Rhéaume interviews Alexandre Carlos dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Jacques Moisan, dancer of the 1998 version. To see the full version: here

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Destruction — Thou shalt not kill. Jacques Moisan meets Alexandre Carlos

Destruction – That shalt not kill Harold Rhéaume interviews Alexandre Carlos dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Jacques Moisan, dancer of the 1998 version.   For this intense role, the choreographer chose two dancers who could incarnate both the strange and…

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Intrusion — Thou shalt not commit adultery. Maud Simoneau meets Ariane Voineau

Intrusion — Thou shalt not commit adultery Harold Rhéaume interviews Ariane Voineau dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Maud Simoneau, dancer of the 1998 version.   Part of the series of interviews for the piece The Ten Commandments, this video features…

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Intrusion — Thou shalt not commit adultery. Maud Simoneau meets Ariane Voineau (excerpt)

Intrusion — Thou shalt not commit adultery Harold Rhéaume interviews Ariane Voineau dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Maud Simoneau, dancer of the 1998 version. To see the full version: here

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Illusion — Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Patrick Lamothe meets Jean-François Duke (excerpt)

Illusion — Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain Harold Rhéaume interviews Jean-François Duke dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Patrick Lamothe, dancer of the 1998 version. To see the full version: here

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Illusion — Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Patrick Lamothe meets Jean-François Duke

Illusion — Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain Harold Rhéaume interviews Jean-François Duke dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Patrick Lamothe, dancer of the 1998 version.   From the series of interviews with the…

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Shame — Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Sophie Corriveau meets Eve Rousseau-Cyr (excerpt)

Shame — Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour Harold Rhéaume interviews Eve Rousseau-Cyr dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Sophie Corriveau, dancer of the 1998 version. To see the full version: here

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Shame — Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Sophie Corriveau meets Eve Rousseau-Cyr

Shame — Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour Harold Rhéaume interviews Eve Rousseau-Cyr dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Sophie Corriveau, dancer of the 1998 version.   During this encounter, Harold Rhéaume, choreographer and Sophie Corriveau, dancer behind…

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Belonging — Honour thy father and thy mother. Etienne Lambert meets Harold Rhéaume

Belonging — Honour thy father and thy mother Harold Rhéaume interviews Etienne Lambert dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements.   Dancer Etienne Lambert and the choreographer take a look back at the creative process for the commandment Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother. Forging connections…

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Belonging — Honour thy father and thy mother. Etienne Lambert meets Harold Rhéaume (excerpt)

Belonging — Honour thy father and thy mother Harold Rhéaume interviews Etienne Lambert dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements. To see the full version: here

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Distorsion — Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Natalie Plante meets Josiane Bernier

Distorsion — Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image Harold Rhéaume interviews Josiane Bernier dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Natalie Plante, dancer of the 1998 version.   This is the third of ten interviews we discover that for…

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Distorsion — Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Natalie Plante meets Josiane Bernier (excerpt)

Distorsion — Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image Harold Rhéaume interviews Josiane Bernier dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Natalie Plante, dancer of the 1998 version. To see the full version: here

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Interdependence — Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Lucie Boissinot meets Miranda Chan (excerpt)

Interdependence — Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Lucie Boissinot meets Miranda Chan Harold Rhéaume interviews Miranda Chan dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Lucie Boissinot, dancer of the 1998 version. To see the full version: here

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Interdependence — Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Lucie Boissinot meets Miranda Chan

Interdependence — Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Lucie Boissinot meets Miranda Chan Harold Rhéaume interviews Miranda Chan dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Lucie Boissinot, dancer of the 1998 version.

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Usurpation — Thou shalt not covet your neighbour’s goods. Charles-Alexis Desgagnés meets Harold Rhéaume (excerpt)

Usurpation — Thou shalt not covet your neighbour’s goods Harold Rhéaume interviews Charles-Alexis Desgagnés dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements. To see the full version: here

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Usurpation — Thou shalt not covet your neighbour’s goods. Charles-Alexis Desgagnés meets Harold Rhéaume

Usurpation — Thou shalt not covet your neighbour’s goods Harold Rhéaume interviews Charles-Alexis Desgagnés dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements.