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Bleu

Jean-Sébastien Lourdais

Plunge into the blue of a woman’s eyes. Feel the flight of breath. Bleu is an immersion into the states of the body in the form of a quest, a search for pure presence.

Details

Plunge into the blue of a woman’s eyes. The blue of internal seas. Feel the flight of breath. And the heart floating in and out. Breathing, heartbeats, the continuum of internal sensations and mutations. The new dance piece by Jean-Sébastien Lourdais is an immersion into the states of the body in the form of a quest, a search for pure presence.

With Bleu, a solo performed by Sophie Corriveau, dance probes the depths of primal solitude. Movement is accompanied by sound textures created onstage at the very moment when time no longer exists. The movement liquefies, stirring up sediments of memory that it has dredged up to the surface of the skin. Bleu reveals the force and the singularity of a collaboration between a choreographer and a dancer of remarkable maturity.

Credits

Produced by Fabrication Danse
Choreographed by Jean-Sébastien Lourdais in association with Martin Bélanger + Sophie Corriveau
Performed by Sophie Corriveau
Dramaturgy Martin Bélanger
Sound Design and Performance Ludovic Gayer
Lighting Design Jean Jauvin
Technical and Production Director Alexandre Larrègle
Communications Nicolas Sado

Co-produced by Festival TransAmériques + La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines
With the support of Arhoma
Creative residencies Centre de Création O Vertigo + Maison de la culture Mont-Royal + Maison de la culture Maisonneuve + Fonderie Darling + Département de danse de l’UQAM + Les marches de l’été (Bordeaux)
Codiffusion La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines

Written by Mylène Joly
Translated by Neil Kroetsch

Premiered at Festival TransAmériques, Montreal, May 27, 2018