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Les Choses dernières press kit

Work
Les Choses dernières
Years
1994-2017

This document gathers all the press articles surrounding the work Les Choses dernières (1994) by Lucie Grégoire (some articles in English).

Project

Les Choses dernières Choreographic Toolkit

Production
Created in 1994 and loosely based on Paul Auster’s novel, In the Country of Last Things, this solo piece is the culmination of Lucie Grégoire’s tireless quest to understand identity. In 2016, Grégoire transmitted the work to Isabelle Poirier, another dancer renowned for her intensity,...

Events

Launch of the choreographic toolkits Bagne and Les Choses dernières

On November 21, 2017, the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault launched the choreographic toolkits Bagne, by Jeff Hall and Pierre-Paul Savoie, and Les Choses dernières, by Lucie Grégoire.    Digital collection of choreographic toolkits The toolkits, based on an original idea by Ginelle Chagnon, are a collection…

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Video interview

Destruction — Thou shalt not kill. Jacques Moisan meets Alexandre Carlos (excerpt)

Destruction – That shalt not kill (excerpt) Harold Rhéaume interviews Alexandre Carlos dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Jacques Moisan, dancer of the 1998 version. To see the full version: here

Video interview

En aparté with Natalia Pieczuro

Interview with Natalia Pieczuro about her career and approach to teaching contemporary dance in an international context.

Video interview

Destruction — Thou shalt not kill. Jacques Moisan meets Alexandre Carlos

Destruction – That shalt not kill Harold Rhéaume interviews Alexandre Carlos dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Jacques Moisan, dancer of the 1998 version.   For this intense role, the choreographer chose two dancers who could incarnate both the strange and…

Article

Territoires Partagés – article by Emmanuelle Bourassa Beaudoin and Natalie Zoey Gauld

Conversation sur un projet d’analyse/réflexion/passation/documentation en lien avec l’œuvre pédagogique d’Angélique Willkie By Emmanuelle Bourassa Beaudoin and Natalie Zoey Gauld Article written for Territoires Partagés – January 2019   Comment est né ce projet? How did this project come to be? In April 2017, in…