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Nicolas Patry and Le corps qui cherche

Date
February 23 2025
Production
Espace Perreault Transmissions chorégraphiques, 2025

How does Nicolas Patry rediscover his process of reactivating bodily memories in Virginie Brunelle‘s work PLOMB?

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.”

Project

Le corps qui cherche

Dissemination
The project Le corps qui cherche is a journey through the layers of dance memories. Using an ecosomatic documentary choreographic approach, Mélissa Raymond explores the remnants of choreographic works from the perspective of the dancers who performed them, by reactivating the movements they remember: a...

Events

Chorégraphier les restes

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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Kimberley de Jong and Le corps qui cherche

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…

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