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Nicolas Patry and Le corps qui cherche
Date
February 23 2025Production
Espace Perreault Transmissions chorégraphiques, 2025
How does Nicolas Patry rediscover his process of reactivating bodily memories in Paula de Vasconcelos‘s work Humanity Project?
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.”
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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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Lucy M. May takes a slow, deep dive into Fake (2009) by Mélissa Raymond. Drawing on memories of sensations and emotions, the dancer recalls excerpts from the piece. “It’s like a particular bodily state is required to receive the language,” she says. At the same time, she explains that…
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Heir to Linda Rabin’s pedagogical and creative legacy, which he continues to teach through the Creative Research course at the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal, Nicolas Patry talks to Lucie Boissinot about his mentor’s influence on his pedagogical and artistic development.
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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…
