Tout se pète la gueule, chérie

He is accompanied by the musician Stéphane Boucher, a multi-instrumentalist who creates sound and music turmoil, Dave St-Pierre, the enfant terrible of trash choreography and Nicolas Cantin, an offbeat artist. Gravel himself will also be onstage for the festivities for he is a musician, set designer and, as he likes to say, a “bad dancer who hopes to become an interesting bad dancer”. His choreographies are patchworks of component scenes, showcases presented in “best of” concert fashion, deconstructed and constantly evolving. He delights in exposing the inner workings of both the theatrical machine and the machinery of the emotions. With his chronic irreverence, Gravel aims for dance that is not snobbish, dance that casually contains several levels of intelligence without being complicated. The music is performed live, the scratching of dirty chords. The lighting is vibrant, and the piece plays with irony and distancing. It is a tale of distraught men, the ordinary run-of-the-mill North American male – beer, T-shirts, baseball caps, cowboy boots, bare bellies and their hesitations, outbursts of violence, confusion, brusque changes of mood, right left, front and back, lurching in a drunken haze of beer and powerlessness.

PRODUCED BY GROUPED’ARTGRAVELARTGROUP

CONCEPT AND DIRECTION: FRÉDÉRICK GRAVEL
CREATED AND PERFORMED BY STÉPHANE BOUCHER + NICOLAS CANTIN + FRÉDÉRICK GRAVEL + DAVE ST-PIERRE
MUSIC: STÉPHANE BOUCHER + FRÉDÉRICK GRAVEL
DRAMATURGY: KATYA MONTAIGNAC
ARTISTIC CONSULTANTS: HUGO GRAVEL + IVANA MILICEVIC + LUCIE VIGNEAULT + JAMIE WRIGHT

COPRODUCTION FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES + RENCONTRES CHORÉGRAPHIQUES INTERNATIONALES DE SEINE-SAINT-DENIS
WITH THE SUPPORT OF STEPTEXT DANCE PROJECT (BREMEN)
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH PLACE DES ARTS