Video interview
Danse mutante – Capsule 5
Production
MAYDAY and la Fondation Jean-Pierre PerreaultConcept and artistic direction
Mélanie DemersChoreography (mutation 2)
Kettly Noël en collaboration avec les interprètesDancers
Francis Ducharme, Riley SimsRehearsal Direction
Anne-Marie JourdenaisLighting
Alexandre Pilon-GuaySound
David BlouinTechnical Direction
Julien VeronneauSinging
Seyba Kanoute, Lil SidikiKettly Noël interview
Angélique Willkie
Francis Ducharme and Riley Sims in the fifth capsule of Danse Mutante, a bold collective project that explores the mutation of a dance work, as well as ideas around transmission and performers’ authority and creative contribution.
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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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Video interview
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. A slice of life in Rotterdam with dancers Francis Ducharme and Riley Sims, 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
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.