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\nSaturday May 27 maj, 19:00-20:30In Marie Chouinard’s work,\u00a0The Rite of Spring<\/em> occupies a special position. In choosing to reexamine this powerful hymn to life, she has created her first choreography based on a musical score. Igor Stravinsky’s.\u00a0The Rite of Spring\u00a0<\/em>explores a New World and marks the entry of dance into modernity. In this avant-garde work, Marie Chouinard again finds an original pulsation that is essential to her movement. Far from contradicting the rhythm of her dance, the cadence and force of the music inspire, accompany and energize her, forming both the echo and the musical counterpoint of an organic, vigourous and vivid choreography.<\/p>\n
For Marie Chouinard, all forms are the movement through space of a specific vital energy. Unlike previous choreographers working with Stravinsky’s piece, she constructed her Rite<\/em> around solos, seeking to awaken in strong, clear movements the intimate mystery of each dancer.<\/p>\n There is no story in my <\/em>Rite, no development, no cause and effect. Only synchronicity. It is as if I were dealing with the very moment after the instant life first appeared. The performance is the unfolding of that moment. I have the feeling that before that moment there was an extraordinary burst of light, a flash of lightning. <\/em>– Marie Chouinard In 1980, Marie Chouinard discovered the book Mouvements<\/em> by Henri Michaux (1899-1984). In 64 pages of India-ink drawings, a 15-page poem and an afterword, Mouvements<\/em> presents multiform figures that Marie Chouinard took pleasure in reading literally, left to right and page by page, as a choreographic score. She then proceeded to decrypt the great artist\u2019s drawings and set dance to these “movements of multiple inkjets, a celebration of blots, arms moving up and down the scales.\u201d<\/p>\n The book\u2019s transition to dance has been done \u201cword for word\u201d, for even the poem in the middle of the book, as well as its afterword, are included in the choreography.<\/p>\n The drawings are projected in the background, allowing spectators to do a simultaneous personal reading of the Michaux score. Echoing the visual presentation of a white page with black drawings, performers dressed in black dance on a white floor. The Rite of Spring\u00a0<\/em>Photo: Nicolas Ruel \/ Dancers: Carol Prieur, James Viveiros<\/p>\n The Rite of Spring Henri Michaux: Mouvements
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\n<\/strong>Concept, Choreography and Artistic Direction: Marie Chouinard
\nMusic: The Rite of Spring<\/em>, Igor Stravinsky, 1913. By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner, 35 minutes.
\nDancers: Charles Cardin-Bourbeau, S\u00e9bastien Cossette-Masse, Catherine Dagenais-Savard, Valeria Galluccio, Motrya Kozbur, Morgane Le Tiec, Scott McCabe, Sacha Ouellette-Deguire, Carol Prieur, Cl\u00e9mentine Schindler
\nLighting: Marie Chouinard
\nCostumes: Liz Vandal
\nProps: Zaven Par\u00e9
\nMake-up: Jacques Lee Pelletier
\nHairstyles: Daniel \u00c9thier<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Choreography and Artistic Direction: Marie Chouinard
\nOriginal music: Louis Dufort
\nPoem, Post face and projected drawings: Henri Michaux, from the book “Mouvements” (1951), with the permission of the right-holders Henri Michaux and Editions Gallimard
\nDancers: Charles Cardin-Bourbeau, S\u00e9bastien Cossette-Masse, Catherine Dagenais-Savard, Valeria Galluccio, Motrya Kozbur, Morgane Le Tiec, Scott McCabe, Sacha Ouellette-Deguire, Carol Prieur, Cl\u00e9mentine Schindler
\nSound environment: Edward Freedman
\nLighting, Set Design: Marie Chouinard
\nCostumes: Marie Chouinard
\n<\/em>Hairstyle: Marie Chouinard
\nTranslation: Howard Scott
\nVoice: Gerard Reyes