BODIES IN URBAN SPACES

Street Sculpture, Urban Intervention
A swarm of multicoloured performers invades Montreal and melts into the background. Their mission – to invest the street with human forms, cramming themselves into vacant spaces of the urban landscape, injecting a dose of humanity into a world of concrete, metal and engine exhaust.

They advance in clusters, taking street fronts by storm as they squeeze into nooks and crannies, cling to facades, hang from balconies and ledges, perch from rooftops and stack atop each other behind pillars. Nestled in doorways, alcoves and awnings, sprawled on benches and clinging to poles and signposts, they pile themselves together in spectacular sculptural installations, ephemeral works of anonymous, entangled bodies. By the end of these amazing street romps, the crowd of astounded spectators is thrilled to have witnessed fascinating and incredible formations of human sculpture.

Questioning our perception of movement and of the urban environment, the Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner has created a sensation in one city after another with Bodies in urban spaces. Never has an in situ piece so successfully transformed the urban landscape, changing how we view the world around us.