MTL Programme 2: Sans collier, Physiographie d’existences 

Citadel Dance Exchange Presents

MTL Programme 2
Sans collier, Physiographie d’existences
Choreographed and Performed by Louise Bédard/Louise Bédard Danse

 

Sans collier, Physiographie d’existences is the odyssey of a woman who allows herself to celebrate the many faces that trace back to the confines of her destiny. 

Choreographer and dancer Louise Bédard, by capturing her image in the form of several self-portraits taken during the pandemic, has highlighted a geography of real and fictional existences at the heart of a fixed photographic rendering. 

Accumulating a body of photos, the choreographer then sought to bring to life several of these portraits of women who reveal themselves in her own flesh as bearers of pitfalls, mutations, and futures.  

 Each of these women grants the artist the measure and counterbalance of these motionless moments, the space of visibility from which they so often felt dispossessed.  It is through the body and gaze of a woman of a certain age that they consent to leave their mark here and there. By embodying these figures and representations carried by the gestures and words of the author Clarice Lispector, this solitary woman, moved by the present moment, ventures into the physiography of existences. 

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Approximate Run Time: 60 minutes