In her process of reactivating bodily memory, Kimberley takes a deep and sensitive look within to find excerpts of Sylvain Émard‘s Fragments. What persists are flashes, movements tied to placement on the stage, as well as a remark from Ginelle Chagnon, then rehearsal director for the piece, about stillness, which has remained with her ever since, both as a dancer and as a rehearsal director herself.
The project Le corps qui cherche is an exploratory phase of doctoral student Mélissa Raymond‘s research-creation project Chorégraphier les restes: approche écosomatique du corps-archive. It is intended as a journey through the layers of dance memories. A way, writes Mélissa, “to affirm the resilience of dance in the bodily memory of dancers and to celebrate the collective aspect of dance through an ecosystemic vision of the creative process.”