DUOS POUR CORPS ET INSTRUMENTS, UNE [RE]CRÉATION

2014

A choreographic work and sound installation featuring an instinctive, visceral dialogue between movement and sound, Duos pour corps et instruments today bears the stamp of a new contemporaneity. Its three exceptional dancers, each of them preeminent figures in Quebec dance, are as charismatic and emblematic of the Desnoyers style as the original trio in 2003. The choreography—composed of light and sublime distortions, variations on a theme, situational interplay, crossings and uncrossings of legs—remains unchanged. The expenditure of the bodies reveals the raw energy, sensuality and boldness of a generation accustomed to performance art.

The release of weight leads to a certain nonchalance, while the relationship to the ground and to sound is all the more spirited and physical. At once liberated, sensual and languid, the dancers’ entire bodies vibrate with the interferences produced by their interactions with the amplifiers as they brazenly perform in close proximity to the audience. In turn mischievous, rebellious and explosive, they weave their relationships of complicity and rivalry in a refined and unfettered dance that seeks to eliminate the distance between stage and audience, between seeing and experiencing. A pivotal work in the artistic path of the Montreal choreographer, the piece has lost none of its charm, power or relevance.

Danièle Desnoyers / Le Carré des Lombes would like to acknowledge the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault and Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique for their involvement in the archival process of the [re]creation of Duos pour corps et instruments, as well as the dance departement of UQÀM.

Duos pour corps et instruments (2003) is a co-production of Le Carré des Lombes and Montreal’s Contemporary Art Museum (residency project).

Discover the Choreographic toolkit for Duos pour corps et instruments on Espace Perreault.

Credits

Artistic director & choreographer

Danièle Desnoyers

Sound design

Nancy Tobin

Rehearsal director

Sophie Corriveau, Assistant: Anne Bruce Falconer

Lighting

Marc Parent

Costumes

Denis Lavoie

Musical research

Kevin Ei-Ichi de Forest

Dancers during the creation in 2003

Sophie Corriveau, Anne Bruce Falconer, Sioned Watkins

Dancers during the [RE]creation in 2014

Karina Champoux, Clara Furey, Anne Thériault, (Paige Culley)