On Tuesday, November 1 at 5:30 pm, at the Café bar of the UQAM Département de danse, we are launching the digital platform Sismography in collaboration with Danse K par K.
As Catherine Lavoie-Marcus, creator and project coordinator, writes: “Sismography is a collaborative platform that is home to the stories of dancers. It is a compassionate archive of the subtle tremors and deep shudders that have marked their practice and that often remain taboo: physical and psychological injuries, illness, conditions, and disabilities that can impede, prevent, transform, and divert dance. It also documents the grief that haunts or liberates it.”
Sismography features an audio section to explore the project De la glorieuse fragilité, les balados (glorious fragility: the podcasts) by the company Danse K par K. In these podcasts, choreographer Karine Ledoyen talks to six artists who had to give up dance and celebrate their glorious fragility: Lucie Boissinot, Annie-Claude Coutu-Geoffroy, Judith Lessard-Bérubé, Catherine Martin, Laura Pinsonneault-Craig, and Daniel Soulières. An initiative of the choreographer, this series, coproduced with Catherine-Ève Gadoury, is a celebration of dance, revealed through the grief that inescapably punctuates it.
During the evening, we are selling the unique publication De la glorieuse fragilité, L’abécédaire, which features 26 testimonials from dancers who have left the professional scene. The publication was produced as part of the show De la glorieuse fragilité. Concept and writing: Katya Montaignac; publisher: Danse K par K.
Launch of Sismography: Tuesday, November 1, at 5:30 p.m.
UQAM Département de danse
Café bar
840 Cherrier, 2nd floor, Montréal
Free
Sismography was produced by Espace Perreault Choreographic Transmissions in partnership with Danse K par K.
Concept and coordination of Sismography: Catherine Lavoie-Marcus
Graphic designer: Émilie Allard
Web programmer: Cyrus Lognonné
Director: Lise Gagnon
Research and directorial assistant: Ariane Dessaulles
Coordination assistant: Victoria Côté
Consulting: Josée Plamondon
External review: Catherine Viau, Yvon Soglo, Corinne Crane, Claire Pearl
De la glorieuse fragilité, les balados is a coproduction of Danse K par K and Espace Perreault Choreographic Transmissions.
Creation and coproduction: Karine Ledoyen
Coproduction: Catherine-Eve Gadoury
Acknowledgements
Enormous thanks to the artists who brought the platform to life by sharing their intimate stories, as well as the artists who contributed to the podcasts.
Sincere thanks to the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, which supported the project as part of the Exploration and Digital Deployment measure.
Finally, warm thanks to the UQAM Département de danse for its invaluable partnership for the launch.
I look forward to celebrating this new collaborative digital project with you!
