Holoscenes
People sitting in a giant aquarium in the heart of the city. They are subjected to cyclical flooding. An extraordinary visual and visceral experience, Holoscenes questions our ability to respond to chaos.
Sweet, hypnotic and vital, water can also flood and devastate. An extraordinary aquatic performance, Holoscenes floats between dream and reality, between the world as we know it and the catastrophe that looms. In this living installation, American artist Lars Jan faces up to the intriguing beauty of devastation. An urgent SOS and a call for resilience.
A giant aquarium sits imposingly in the heart of the city—on the new Esplanade Tranquille. Scenes from daily life unfold there: someone tunes a guitar, someone else sells fruit or reads the newspaper. In less than a minute, they are submerged under twelve tonnes of water. Amid this captivating chaos, their gestures are transformed and people adapt. Mixing dance and physical theatre, the artist holds up a mirror to passersby reflecting the fight against climate upheavals. How far can we go in adapting? An extraordinary visual and visceral experience.
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Created and Produced by Early Morning Opera / Lars Jan
Created and Produced by Early Morning Opera
Conceived and Directed by Lars Jan
Choreographed by Geoff Sobelle
Performed by Benjamin Kamino + Emmanuelle Martin + Annie Saunders + Geoff Sobelle
Show Control and Lighting Design Pablo N. Molina
Sound Design Nathan Ruyle + Mikaal Sulaiman
Sound Engineering Duncan Woodbury
Costume Design Irina Kruzhilina
Technical Director Eric Lin
Project Manager Christopher Pye
Company Manager Alexandria Yalj
Hydraulic Design Larry McDonald
Automation Design Erich Bolton
Created with the support of Robert Rauschenberg Foundation + MAP Fund + Surdna Foundation (New York) + NEA
This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts + Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Presented by Hydro-Québec with the support of The Cole Foundation + Quartier des spectacles Partnership in association with Écoscéno
Quebec première
Written by Elsa Pépin
Translated by Neil Kroetsch + David Dalgleish
Premiered at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, on October 4, 2014
Lars Jan (Los Angeles)
Early Morning Opera
The American artist Lars Jan is the son of immigrants from Afghanistan and Poland. Multidisciplinary in his approach, he is a director, writer and visual artist and the founder of Early Morning Opera, a laboratory that combines live performance with new technologies and unique experiences.
Edition 2022
Performances
- Wed25May6 p.m.
- Thu26May6 p.m.
- Fri27May6 p.m.
- Sat28May6 p.m.
- Sun29May6 p.m.
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Ongoing performance
