In this immersive experience that involves all of the senses except sight, audience members are guided by the performers at the heart of an installation where smells, textures and sounds evoke an old house. This house becomes the site of an intangible encounter: a young woman who moves in to escape a predetermined life discovers, along with the audience, a piano, books, and the story of a writer who lived there in 1950. The poetic tableaux of the work gradually reveal the emotions and contradictions shared by these two women despite the decades between them: for both, living alone in this house is a way of accessing freedom and breaking free from social obligations. But is being alone truly the same as being free?
A limited number of tickets are reserved for blind and partially sighted audience members.
If the performance you wish to attend is sold out, please don’t hesitate to contact the box office. A ticket may still be available for you. To reserve by phone, call the box office at 514-982-3386.
The café-bar will be open to welcome you before the performance, but no food or drink service will be offered at that time.
The performance team will also be on hand to provide support and accompany you throughout the experience.
Fragments: celle qui m’habitait déjà is an immersive creation designed for a blind audience. Sighted individuals are invited to experience the piece with eyeshades. The small audience of nine spectators per performance allows for a tangible and intimate experience: the performers interact with the audience through touch.
Childcare for sighted children and children with visual impairments
→ Saturday, October 25 at 3 p.m.
Free — Open to children ages 3 to 10, both sighted and visually impaired, whose parents have tickets
Reservation required here.
ABOUT+
Audrey-Anne Bouchard is a performing artist trained in scenography (Concordia University) and then in dance and theatre theory and practice (University of Nice and Free University of Brussels). Since 2008, she has been working as a lighting designer in the dance and theatre communities in Montreal and internationally. Her keen interest in the collective creative process has also led her to develop her own creations. Inspired by her situation as a person living with a visual impairment, in 2016 she began the research project Au-delà du visuel (Beyond the Visual) to explore the possibility of creating and communicating dance and theatre for a blind audience. With her team, she developed the shows Camille: un rendez-vous au-delà du visuel (Camille: A Date Beyond the Visual), presented in 2019 at the MAI, and Camille: le récit / Camille: The Story. For Camille, Audrey-Anne received the Monique Lefebvre Universal Accessibility Award and the META (Montreal English Theatre Award) for Best Direction in 2022. Since 2015, she has also been a mentor in the production and directing programs (English section) at the National Theatre School of Canada. In addition to her work as an artist and educator, Audrey-Anne participates in several projects as an accessibility consultant: among other things, she is a member of the expert committee for the City of Montreal’s 2020-2024 Universal Accessibility Project and a consultant on a project led by Kéroul aimed at improving accessibility practices in Montreal’s cultural centers.
Credits+
Fragments : celle qui m’habitait déjà is a collective creation created by Audrey-Anne Bouchard, Vytautas Bucionis Jr.,Marijoe Foucher, SarahGagné, Laurie-Anne Langis, Marc-André Lapointe, Andréa Marsolais-
Roy and Diana Uribe.
Stage Direction: Audrey-Anne Bouchard
Assistance with stage direction and stage management : Sarah Gagné
Text: Audrey-Anne Bouchard et Marc-André Lapointe
Choreography Design and Development of the Physical Contact Between Performer and Audience: Marijoe Foucher et Laurie-Anne Langis
Interpreters: Marijoe Foucher, Laurie-Anne Langis, Marc-André Lapointe and Vytautas Bucionis Jr. on piano
Acting Director: Marc-André Lapointe
Scenography – set design, costumes and accessories: Diana Uribe
Sound Design and Associate Composition: Andréa Marsolais-Roy
Associated Composition: Vytautas Bucionis Jr.
Technical Direction for Creation: Charlie Loup S. Turcot
Production Direction : Sarah Gagné
Dramaturgy Consultant : Josianne Dulong-Savignac
Technical Director Assistant: Cindy Loup Gagné
Sound Designer: William Sénéchal
Set Construction: Shopdogs Inc.
Dramaturgical Advisor: Josianne Dulong-Savignac
Consultant Specializing in Women’s History: Lucie Piché (PhD in History)
Historical Research: Amilie Chalifoux
Audience reception at performances: Audrey-Anne Bouchard and Laurence Gagnon Lefebvre
Support for artists with visual impairments: Brigitte
Nadeau
Audience development: Denise Beaudry
Artistic mediation and voice: Anne-Sophie Tougas
Audio recordings: Rob Denton
Visuals: Diana Uribe and Carlos Alberto Rátiva GonzálezThis show received support from the following public partners:
Le Conseil des arts du Canada, Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Le Conseil des arts de MontréalThe creation of this show received support from the following partners:
MAI (Montréal arts interculturels)
QUAI 5160, maison de la culture de Verdun
Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay
Maison de la culture Notre-Dame de Grâce
Le Centre des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD)
PostmarginalMerci à Étienne Marra- Hurtubise et Jocelyn CaronSpecial thanks to the Regroupement des aveugles et amblyopes du Montréal métropolitain (RAAMM) and the INCA Foundation, as well as all the blind, visually impaired, and sighted people who participated in the rehearsals for this show.
Fragments: celle qui m’habitait déjà is a production of
Audrey-Anne Bouchard / Au-delà du visuel