Video interview
Danse mutante – Capsule 1
Production
FJPP and MAYDAY - Mélanie DemersConcept and artistic direction
Mélanie DemersDancers
Francis Ducharme, Riley Sims
Danse Mutante is a duet performed by Francis Ducharme and Riley Sims, destined to know multiple mutations as it passes through the hands of four female choreographers on three different continents.
With :Francis Ducharme, Riley Sims, Mélanie Demers, Alexandre Pilon-Guay, Mykalle Bielinski, Anne-Marie Jourdenais, David Blouin and Julien Veronneau.
Projects
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…
Events
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Publication
(in French) For Ouvrir la boîte, Lise Gagnon invited close to 20 dance practitioners—dancers, choreographers and researchers—to examine the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault’s choreographic toolkits from a meta perspective by opening them, interrogating them and unpacking them, in order to view them from different angles and…
Article
« L’artiste est (…) quelqu’un qui saute tous les jours d’un aéroplane sans parachute, mais avec des ailes dans le cerveau. » Steven Cohen, danseur queer engagé
Video interview
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.
Publication
This fanzine invites you to follow the traces of a ghost-like dance. The dance by Hanako Hoshimi-Caines was performed before a select few, and was not filmed or photographed. Yet its sensory content was methodically captured in this multi-authored work.