Excerpt from work
Kimberley de Jong and Le corps qui cherche
Date
February 23 2025Production
Espace Perreault Transmissions chorégraphiques, 2025
How does Kimberley de Jong reconnect with the process of reviving the embodied memories of Martin Messier’s Corps mort? Step by step, in silence, moving through the space and seeking to recover the sensation of being onstage, Kimberley de Jong dances while asking herself: What emerges here, in this very moment? What remains? What memories lie buried within the body’s cells?
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Dissemination
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Espace Perreault is pleased to support the presentation of Mélissa Raymond’s doctoral research and creation project entitled Chorégraphier les restes, with dancers Kimberley de Jong and Nicolas Patry, in which they recall their memories of past choreographies danced.Chorégraphier les restes looks at the memories of dance as…
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