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Ultimate Combat

Skilled at addressing the tensions between expressing female power and submitting to stereotypes, Manon Oligny presents mass-produced girls struggling against their standardization and planned obsolescence. A haunting look at the crushing confines and torment of conditioning. A scathing critique of a world in the quest for perfection.

Chic and stylish, almost perfectly identical, these young women are all cut from the same cloth. Dancers driven by the same perpetual movement, a soprano in an irrepressible musical frenzy, items from a production line whose noise creates a heavy, piercing blanket of sound. Complex formations unfold like a synchronized chorus line, a military parade or a cheerleading routine, but the machine keeps breaking down. Bodies rear up, gestures disintegrate, the robotic girls turn into women resisting their eradication. A manifesto on the fate of Woman in an era of fundamentalists and rampant consumerism.

Artistic director and choreographer Manon Oligny in association with Performers
Performed by Geneviève Bolla + Miriah Brennan + Marilyn Daoust + Karina Iraola + Anne Le Beau
Soprano Florie Valiquette
Assistant dramaturge Martine Delvaux
Composer Création Ex Nihilo aka Guillaume Bourassa + Sébastien Gravel
Artistic advisor and assistant to rehearsals Christine Charles
Lighting design Bruno Rafie
Technical director Julien Véronneau

Co-produced by Festival TransAmériques with the support of Production Rhizomes (Québec) + Transcultures – Centre interdisciplinaire des cultures numériques et sonores (Mons) + Espace Marie Chouinard (Montréal)

Creative residencies Escaut architectures (Bruxelles) + Espace Marie Chouinard

Premiered at FTA, Montreal, June 4, 2016