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L’Inconsistance is a dance duet by Nasim Lootij and Kiasa Nazeran from the Vâtchik Danse collective that delves into the inner workings of the human mind. The work explores how humanity prefers to submit to empty rhetoric and content itself with passive solidarity towards countries affected by serious political conflicts. It presents an image of loopholes that, once opened in our minds, prevent us from recovering our integrity and consistency. Incorporating paper, a material as soft as our intellectual amorphism, L’Inconsistance is inspired by German Expressionism as an aesthetic revealing the nightmare that Lootij and Nazeran experienced in their native Iran.
Talkback with the artists on Friday April 19th after the performance hosted by Marco Pronovost.
Post-show discussion translated in LSQ and ASL.
LSQ and ASL interpreters will also be present before and after the show.
Content Warning: Smoke + A few minutes of the soundtrack feature violent words from Hitler (in German) and Stalin (in Russian).
We warmly invite the audience to join the artistic team for a little celebration with Iranian music and appetizers after the last performance on April 20!
Collective: Vâtchik Danse Partners and creative residencies :
credits
Concept: Kiasa Nazeran and Nasim Lootij
Choreography and Dramaturgy: Nasim Lootij and Kiasa Nazeran with the assistance of Sophie Michaud and Michel f. Côté
Performers: Kiasa Nazeran and Nasim Lootij
Artistic Advisor: Sophie Michaud
Sound Design: Michel F. Côté
Lighting Design and Technical Direction: Benoit Larivière
Costume Design: Amélie Charbonneau
Outside Eye During The First Phase of the Process: José Navas, Kathy Casey
Costume Design: Atelier-M-Costume
Video: Alejandro Jiménez
Canada Council for the Arts
Conseil des arts de Montréal
MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels)
José Navas/Compagnie Flak
Montréal Danse
Danse-Cité
Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont Royal
Maison de la culture de Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie
Circuit-est centre chorégraphique
LA SERRE – arts vivants – Festival Offta
Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV
Vue sur la Relève – Studio Bizz
Biennale Parcours Danse
Biennale Cinars
Our heartfelt thanks go to the MAI team, Camille, Nicole, Thiago, Marie, Jaëlle, Marguerite, Camille, Philip and David, for having supported and accompanied us with great patience, understanding and generosity during the four years it took to create this piece. Our heartfelt thanks go to all our partners and collaborators who have supported us with great generosity, availability and understanding during the four years of creating this piece. Special thanks go to our artistic advisor, Sophie Michaud, with whom we have had the great privilege of collaborating for several years, and from whom we have learned a great deal; our sound designer, Michel F. Côté, who has shared his great expertise and artistic knowledge with us; our lighting designer, Benoit Larivière, our longest-standing collaborator; our costume designer, Amélie Charbonneau, our newest collaborator; and our great and longest-standing partners José Navas, Compagnie Flak and Adrien Bussy, for their generous support in so many ways from our first creation seven years ago to the present day.acknowledgements
We would also like to thank each and every one of these individuals who have so generously helped us at different moments in the process of creating this project: Sophie Corriveau, Ellen Furey, Dena Davida, Roger Sinha, Parisa Rajabiyan, Arezoo Farahani, Michael Toppings, Nayla Naoufal, Evelyne Arsenault, Janie Boucher, Youssef Shoufan, Francine Gagné, Claudel Doucet, Hoor Malas, Morteza Tabatabai, Elahé Moonesi, Mélanie Charbonneau, Pantéa Pezeshkan.