In L’affadissement du merveilleux, Catherine Gaudet operates a depuration of her language, until now rather theatrical, via a system of choreographic cycles created out of the circle’s universal structure.
On an empty white stage, five dancers move in unison, a few inches away from one another and in repetitive motifs, in lines or in circles, or else individualising themselves in seductive poses or challenging solos. Raw, precise physicality mingles with dramatic tension and grotesqueness.
The exactitude and sensuality of L’affadissement du merveilleux are driven by hypnotic rhythms that punctuate the dancers’ constant pauses, from serenity to a scream, from violence to catharsis, in an intense, ritualised meditation on the human condition.
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Credits
Choreography Catherine Gaudet
Performers Dany Desjardins, Francis Ducharme, Caroline Gravel, Leïla Mailly, James Phillips
Music Antoine Berthiaume
Dramaturgy assistance & rehearsal director Sophie Michaud
Lighting design Alexandre Pilon‑Guay
Costumes Max‑Otto Fauteau
Intern Marie-Philippe Santerre
Produced by Lorganisme
Executive produced by DLD – Daniel Léveillé Danse
Co‑produced by Agora de la danse, Montréal, Centre Chorégraphique national de Tours (CCNT)
Creative residencies Agora de la danse (Montreal), Centre chorégraphique national de Tours (CCNT), Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV (Montreal), Compagnie Marie Chouinard (Montreal), Danse à la carte (Montreal), École de danse Louise Lapierre (Montreal), Maison de la culture Frontenac (Montreal) With the support of Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts de Montréal
Catherine Gaudet is a member of Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique (Montreal)
