Crépuscule des océans
Dance that absolutely asserts itself as dance. Dance that is unadorned and rigorous. Dance that is an allegorical ocean, powerful and unfathomable, with violent, tempestuous movements and tremendous silences. Daniel Léveillé’s latest work Crépuscule des océans(Twilight of the Oceans) invites the audience to follow the ebb and flow of a human tide, exploring its depths and our dark side.
Staunchly opposed to divisions and barriers, Léveillé flees at the approach of an ensnaring net or any effort to reduce his work to a single desire. “I dream of a performance that is fluid and not fixed, not frozen dead in a definitive form.” After Amour, acide et noix (2001) and La Pudeur des icebergs (2004), is he pursuing a triptych? Then again, why be burdened with categories and classifications? With his disregard for convention and his rigorous approach, he creates dance that escapes all attempts to define and classify. “I never know what I’m working on. I do everything I can to not know what I’m doing, responding instead to instinct and the subconscious. My ideal is to have me, the creative artist, fade into the background and disappear.” Such effacing nonetheless leaves an indelible trace in the consciousness of audiences carried away by the dynamic dance he creates.
CHOREOGRAPHY
DANIEL LÉVEILLÉ
PERFORMERS
FRÉDÉRIC BOIVIN
MATHIEU CAMPEAU
KATIE EWALD
JUSTIN GIONET
STÉPHANE GLADYSZEWSKI
IVANA MILLICEVIC
EMMANUEL PROULX
DANCE COACH
MARIE-ANDRÉE GOUGEON
LIGHTING DESIGN
JEAN JAUVIN
MUSIC
JEAN-SÉBASTIEN DUROCHER
COPRODUCTION
IMPULSTANZ VIENNA INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL
SZENE SALZBURG INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS
FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES
AGORA DE LA DANSE
(MONTRÉAL)
DANSPACE PROJECT
(NEW YORK)
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
RESIDENCIES
DÉPARTEMENT DE DANSE DE L’UQAM
MAISON DE LA CULTURE FRONTENAC
CENTRE DE CRÉATION O VERTIGO
AGORA DE LA DANSE
SZENE SALZBURG
