Excerpt from work

Le Collier de Sélène, by Louise Bédard

Director
Mario Côté
Production
Louise Bédard Danse
Extraits de textes
André Breton, Marie Claire Forté, Nadine MonFils, Octavio Paz, Yasmina Reza
Sound mixing
Keith McMullen
Calibration and coloring
Richard Boudrias

Le Collier de Sélène 2021, video num, 12 min 28 s

Le Collier de Sélène is a solo created by choreographer Louise Bédard in complicity with dancer Marie Claire Forté. This solo (2014) has been danced too few times, hence the importance of giving it a new life through this video recording.

 

A word from the choreographer

Simple black necklaces bought in a bazaar inspired me to create this solo for the dancer. The necklaces around her neck and the thimbles in the pockets of her suit, encourage us to be on the lookout for sounds in addition to the timbre of her voice from which we get fragments of texts that she almost whispers in our ears. Sometimes they are hers and at other times those of the poets André Breton, Nadine MonFils, Octavio Paz, Yasmina Reza. The score of a story that belongs to her is delivered to us by this great woman whose small and large gestures bewitch and fascinate us.

 

Credits:
Choreographer : Louise Bédard
Performer : Marie Claire Forté
Music : Maurice Ravel, Le Gibet, piano Louis Lortie
Costumes and accessories : Valeska G.

 

Project

Marie Claire Forté dans FLOOD c. David Wong

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Re-creation and creation of solos by Louise Bédard Danse compagny In the fall of 2020, five solos were reassembled for the camera in order to enhance the visual archives of Louise Bédard Danse. During this disruptive period when the situation of artists was undermined, the…

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