O DEER !

Initiatory Journey
In a dark night pulsating with distant memories of the dawn of time, two individuals cast off the rags of civilization and rediscover their animal essence. In the middle of the woods, they are reborn, at one with the earth. Breaking apart and coming together, they eventually become attuned to nature. Courageous prospectors searching for equilibrium, they peel back the veils of the ordinary as the forest shares its age-old memory with them, revealing its mysteries.

In o deer!, Montreal choreographer Chanti Wadge pays tribute to the power of nature and what it holds most precious. Moving from concrete reality to dreamlike imagery imbued with shamanist ritual, she stresses the importance for every living being of staying connected to the self, to others and to the environment, an idea that is conveyed quite naturally in this dance piece tinged with humour, poetic sounds and images, and acknowledgment of spirituality and ecology.