PHOS

LIFE IS A DREAM
An illusionist who blends the performing arts with visual and digital art, Stéphane Gladyszewski will be bringing his magic to the FTA for the fourth time. He disorients our visual perceptions and bamboozles our sensory memory with the fantastic “technorganic” experimentations of Phos. A crafty conjurer indeed.

Inside a black box, the spectator is reduced to Lilliputian size as a photographer develops fade-ins and fade-outs of hypnotic images of a moving mirage. A world takes shape on a mass of clay, from which a woman then emerges. Hands transport a gigantic mouth whose words are etched on the floor in letters of light. Two beings merge into a single body. A flash zips through the darkness and prints their silhouettes onto life-size photo paper. The moment is frozen on the retina, slowly dimming until it disappears. A journey into the intangible, to the underside of the real. Reason gives way to wonder and to the pleasures of the senses. Exquisite hallucinations.

PRODUCED BY STÉPHANE GLADYSZEWSKI
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY AND VIDEO STÉPHANE GLADYSZEWSKI
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AND PROJECTIONNIST JUSTINE RICARD
SOUND DESIGN MICHEL F CÔTÉ
LIGHTING DESIGN JEAN JAUVIN
PERFORMED BY MARTIN BÉLANGER + LUCIE VIGNEAULT
DRAMATURG PETER JAMES
PROGRAMMING AND ELECTRONICS EXPERT ARTIFICIEL INC. + SAMUEL ST-AUBIN
VIDEO INSTALLATION STÉPHANE GLADYSZEWSKI
CRANE BUILDING DIX2 + STÉPHANE GLADYSZEWSKI BASED ON A CONCEPT BY PIERRE TABIB
NUMERIC BRUSH ARTIFICIEL INC. DESIGNER SIMON MARTIN
IMAGING STÉPHANE GLADYSZEWSKI
COSTUME DESIGN AND PROPS MARIE CLAUDE JALBERT

COPRODUCTION FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH STUDIO O VERTIGO THIS SHOW IS PART OF PRINTEMPS NUMÉRIQUE 2015 DE MONTRÉAL

WRITTEN BY FABIENNE CABADO
TRANSLATED BY NEIL KROETSCH

PREMIERED AT FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES, MONTREAL, ON MAY 28, 2015