Show Credits
Choreography: Jean-Pierre Perreault
Original Lighting Design: Jean Gervais
Original Set, Costumes, Music: Jean-Pierre Perreault
Rehearsal Director:
Ginelle Chagnon, with the permission of Espace Perreault Transmissions chorégraphiques
Performers:
Morgyn Aronyk-Schell, Valerie Calam, Tyler Gledhill, Sully Malaeb Proulx, Connor Mitton, Natasha Poon Woo, Brodie Stevenson, Heidi Strauss
Understudies:
Sierra Chin Sawdy, River Waterhen
Lighting and Set Design Adaptation: Simon Rossiter
Sound Engineer: John Gzowski
Costume Coordination: Valerie Calam
Stage Manager: Marianna Rosato
Rehearsal Assistant: Johanna Bergfelt
Technical Director: Eliajah Stefura
Head Carpenter: Sandy Middleton, The National Ballet of Canada
Assistant Head Carpenter: James Fulton, The National Ballet of Canada
Second Assistant Carpenter: Chuck Thiel, The National Ballet of Canada
Head Scenic: Kelly Palmer, The National Ballet of Canada
Assistant Scenic: Will Leskevich, The National Ballet of Canada
Scenery constructed at The Gretchen Ross Production Centre, The National Ballet of Canada by members of I.A.T.S.E Local 822, 828 and 58.
Presented by Luminato Festival Toronto
Performed at the Fleck Dance Theatre
About the Show
Nuit
Choreographed by Jean-Pierre Perreault
Nuit (1986) is legendary Canadian choreographer Jean-Pierre Perreault’s seminal work exploring the individual among the collective through fiery, demanding contemporary dance.
This arresting and dynamic work, performed in half-light, expresses a troubling, subterranean vulnerability, rooted in the unflinching integrity that its author succeeded in transmitting to the dancers, who become percussion instruments, beating the ground in intoxication and finally exhaustion. The singular materiality of Nuit and the interpenetration among the multiple components that Perreault created make this a major work not only in Perreault’s legacy but in the history of Canadian choreography.
Approximate run time is 80 minutes.
