Interview

Modes of collaboration

Author
Alida Esmail
Production
Co-production

This first video weaves together excerpts from rehearsals and a conversation between the choreographer and her dramaturgical consultants, Thea Patterson and Julie Tamiko Manning. It offers a rare opportunity to step inside the creative process, as Alida describes why she chose to work with these consultants and why they, in turn, chose to support the project.

Project

Alida Esmail en performance de Les fils de ma grand-mère / My grandmother's threads

My Grandmother’s Threads (work-in-progress)

Diffusion
My Grandmother’s Threads is a multidisciplinary choreographic project by Alida Esmail, a Canadian dance and theatre artist whose work explores the body as a carrier of memory, history, and lived experience. Grounded in her Indo-African ancestry, the project traces a family lineage from Muslim India...

Events

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Entre traces et écritures : Scripts, notations, partitions (excerpt)
Event recording

Entre traces et écritures : Scripts, notations, partitions (excerpt)

«Entre traces et écritures» took place in Hexagram UQAM’s experimentation lab in Montreal from May 15 to 18, 2018. With: Simon Hecquet and Armando Meniccaci.

© FJPP, source: Frédérique Rivest
Video interview

La Chute : Culture is our lifeblood

Documentation on the creative process of La Chute. The creation and documentation of La chute are made possible thanks to the Conseil des arts de Montréal’s DémART-Mtl program

© FJPP, source: Frédérique Rivest
Video interview

La Chute : Culture is our lifeblood (excerpt)

Documentation on the creative process of La Chute. The creation and documentation of La chute are made possible thanks to the Conseil des arts de Montréal’s DémART-Mtl program

Danse mutante - Capsule 5
Video interview

Danse mutante – Capsule 5

Francis Ducharme and Riley Sims in the fifth capsule of Danse Mutante, a bold collective project that explores the mutation of a dance work, as well as ideas around transmission and performers’ authority and creative contribution.