Video interview
Danse mutante – Capsule 4
Production
FJPP and MAYDAY - Mélanie DemersConcept and artistic direction
Mélanie DemersChoreography (mutation 1)
Ann Liv Young en collaboration avec les interprètesDancers
Francis Ducharme, Riley SimsRehearsal Direction
Anne-Marie JourdenaisLighting
Alexandre Pilon-GuaySound
David BlouinTechnical Direction
Julien Veronneau
With Francis Ducharme, Riley Sims, Mélanie Demers, Anne-Marie Jourdenais and Ann Liv Young
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
More to discover
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…
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.
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
This tenth capsule is capturing the huge adventure of Danse Mutante that lasted over two years.