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fa'addebhou li (dresse-le pour moi)

Fa’addebhou li (« Dresse-le pour moi ») is the entreaty of parents whose son is not following what they believe is the right path closely enough – the path of tradition and patriarchal expectations. Choreographer Nancy Naous highlights the unsustainable construction of the male body in Arab society, in the daily lives of families and siblings. She stages two bodies (Nahid Bahsoun, Alexandre Paulikevitch) of men trapped in a straitjacket of inheritance and contradictions. Strong, tough, and idolized, they are moved by capacious desires and hidden insecurity. A dancer and actor of Lebanese origin, and founder of the company 4120.CORPS, Nancy Naous works with gestures from traditional dances and movements anchored in middle-eastern daily lives.

walking at night by myself (cancelled-covid19)

Vancouver based performance trio A Wake of Vultures (Nancy Tam, Daniel O’Shea and Conor Wylie) melds together highfalutin ideas and low-fi aesthetics in their new work, Walking at Night by Myself. They present a world of abstraction, distraction, and overlapping patterns through which we slowly examine the plasticity of human perception and open up to questions of how notions of familiarity, difference, and impressions are constructed. Featuring Nancy Tam and Anjela Magpantay, this work explores connections between movement, sonic, scenographic, and conceptual ideas with hypnotic repetitions, twin-like presentation, afterimage, and moiré to transcend the spectacular to the phenomenological; from seeing to experiencing.

real's fiction\dissonant_pleasures

This dance is a song we sing in order to be together. The song is intentionally simple to open access to even the most musically-timid body. The song needs us to listen to each other, to be sung in search of a semitonal-policality; “how close can we come without consolidating into one-ness?.”

This room is listening to us speak. It captures our whispers and secrets and redistributes them elsewhere and close-by. This floor invites us to lie. This work is almost real. This world we are looking for is not for us.

camille : un rendez-vous au-delà du visuel

Camille : un rendez-vous au-dela du visuel — © Laurence Gagnon Lefebvre

In this immersive work that circumvents our sense of sight, audience members follow the protagonist through a landscape of emotions and memories in which the intimate becomes tangible. This multisensory experience, developed for a visually-impaired audience, is accessible to all; we are invited, directly and delicately, into a space of discovery and encounter. Montreal-based interdisciplinary artist Audrey-Anne Bouchard has used her impairment as inspiration for developing a new artistic form. She brings together a reflection on the sensorial experience of dance, begun during her Master’s (Nice/Brussels), and the development of her practice as dramaturge.

one kind favor

With the world increasingly full of misinformation, as meaningless images of brutality bombard our retinas across all platforms, the courage to be kind is increasingly essential. Choreographed by George Stamos in collaboration with Karla Etienne and Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, ONE KIND FAVOR is an exploration of how kindness can be embodied, sometimes with grace, sometimes failing despite good intentions. ONE KIND FAVOR is an acknowledgment of those who have had the courage to be kind and impacted our lives with their generosity. Supported by The Canada Council for the Arts.

carrion

What does it mean to be human, in an era when our destructive influence over the planet is rapidly redefining the laws of nature? This magnetic solo performance by Justin Shoulder introduces the figure of Carrion: a post-human spectre that has the ability to shapeshift into multiple forms and speak multiple languages. In the throes of forced evolutionary acceleration, wandering an archaeological site, they transform: a ghost of the west, a virus, a trickster, a prehistoric bird. Combining presentational club spectacle with dramaturgy from Victoria Hunt on raw bodily exploration, Carrion draws on queer and bicultural ancestral mythologies.

borderlines

Questions about migrants and borders feed current debates around the world. Conceived for five young dancers from Marrakech, this work examines the notion of checkpoints, those that are visible as well as barriers within the body itself. Enveloped in a sound mix drawn from both traditional and contemporary Moroccan sources, this fervent quintet strives to make the space their own or create one for themselves if given no other choice. In a society with such tight control over individuals, what is left of intimacy?

faith hole

Created through radical trust in the body, Faith hole choreographs itself through the unconsidered movements that rip through the artist. Going relentlessly forward, always embracing its future iteration, dismissing nostalgic lingerings of “self,” yet exposing the splinters of personhood to the public. In this solo work, Yaffe cultivates a non-transactional exchange between performer and audience, offering himself as an open orifice spilling fleshy histories with unguarded emotion. By excavating muscle memories as artifacts from a history of conditioning through classical dance training, internalized hetero-masculine values, and restrained hyperactivity, Yaffe strives to reveal the innately queer vocabulary that lives beneath.

mad | motions and dynamics

MAD | Motions and Dynamics is a Forward Movements’ initiative, aiming to offer a different perspective of urban dance while putting the emphasis on creativity.

Urban Dance Shows
Thursday December 5th & Friday December 6th 2019

Featuring performances by Femmes Phénoménales, Sarah Bidaw, and Ford Mckeown Larose, these evenings are centered around mixity and its multiple attributes.

Inspired by her upbringing and her practice of arabo-berber and house dance styles, Sarah Bidaw presents a solo called “Al Warda.” “AmalGame 2.0” is a choreographic piece created by Ford Mckeown Larose of Compagnie Forward Movements and inspired by what scientists call Chaos Theory (better known as the “butterfly effect”). YONI Cypher, a project of Femmes Phénoménales collective, centres women artists of any medium who are immersed in Hip-Hop culture.

MAD Solo Battle
Saturday December 7th 2019

On the 7th & 8th December features the MAD Solo Battle. Throughout the night, solo dancer will battle it out in a game of creativity. Taking part in countless challenges, the artist deemed “most creative” will have the opportunity to represent his art form during the next edition of Hip Hop Games concept at Lille, in France. Master classes will be offered by the professional artists of the Art-Track dance company. This is followed by a creative battle of different challenges between crews and dance collectives who want to pursue a choreographic career.

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✅ Passports:

1 show + 1 battle

el silencio de las cosas presentes

A performative dance centered around the multi-sensorial sharing of the intimate, El Silencio de las Cosas Presentes reflects on haptic sensation and pain. As personal stories and memories course through their bodies, a displacement of perception and corporeal strangeness modulates the gestures of the performers – Eduardo Ruiz Vergara, Sophie Levasseur and Marie Mougeolle. Backed by an immersive sonic landscape – Nathan Giroux – El Silencio… evokes a polyphonic song that is at once disconcerting and familiar.

Choreographer, performer and teacher, Ruiz Vergara has produced some twenty pieces since 2001. His doctoral project at UQAM is focused on “corporeal poetics and the world of feelings.”