Video interview

Usurpation — Thou shalt not covet your neighbour’s goods. Charles-Alexis Desgagnés meets Harold Rhéaume

Date
June 25, 2020
Editor
Emilie Allard
Recording
Emilie Allard
Length
26 min 23
Production
Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault in collaboration with Le fils d'Adrien danse

Usurpation — Thou shalt not covet your neighbour’s goods

Harold Rhéaume interviews Charles-Alexis Desgagnés dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements.

Project

Les dix commandements: Encounters (1998–2021)

Co-production

In 1998, Harold Rhéaume created his first major work, Les dix commandements, which examines complex issues related to the values and moral codes that hold a society together. His company, Le fils d’Adrien danse, celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2021. To mark the occasion, it…

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