Fortune Nation

montrealdanse — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:24:25 +0000

Fortune Nation

Simon Laroche & Liliane Moussa

Fortune Nation unfolds as a dream and a ceremony with its own time and rhythm. Through gestures that resist clarity and permanence, this work positions itself within a kind of sci-fi anthropology, observing and imagining life forms whose codes we cannot fully decipher. Invisible bodies and invisible labor, operating on waste of the future, remnants that do not fit the logic of utility. The two figures of Fortune Nation are guardians or caretakers— ungendered, unattached, and uncultured. They appear as excess bodies, chrysalis-like, draped in layers of scavenged hues, shifting between states of becoming, dissolving, and reassembling—never fixed, never fully knowable.

Formally, the work aims to avoid the recognizable and predictable. Body language rejects productivity and intention, unfolding in hesitancy but in continual doing. It evades the parametric and the quantifiable, favoring gestures that loop without pattern, sometimes incorporating fractured language that drifts. Synchronicities emerge and dissolve, the apparent chaos becoming the material through which the choreography dismantles expectations and composes estranged forms of order. Ghosts hover around.

Fortune Nation seeks to position its audience as voyeurs. They peer into a space alive with activity, where meaning resists capture yet an invisible logic operates – a space suspended in its own rite, closer to reverie than to reason. The work perhaps reflects on what we dismiss when it lacks purpose or utility, on how strangeness can render things unseen. Through poetic disruption, Fortune Nation becomes an invitation to linger in what cannot be assimilated.

Co-production

Simon Laroche and Montréal Danse first met during the creation of RADIOMATON, where the transdisciplinary artist revealed his innovative approach at the intersection of immersive technologies and performance. This initial collaboration naturally evolved into Fortune Nation, an ambitious project he is developing with choreographer Liliane Moussa, both united by a common vision: to push the boundaries of physicality in the contemporary choreographic landscape.

The company recognizes in Simon and Liliane’s work the quest for innovation that has characterized its own approach for nearly forty years. Fortune Nation does not merely integrate technology into dance; it profoundly questions our relationship to movement in the digital age, creating a choreographic language in which the human body and its digital avatars coexist in the same multiplied reality. This co-production is part of Montréal Danse’s ongoing commitment to supporting artists who, like Simon and Liliane, are rethinking the frameworks of dance creation and opening up new territories of expression for the performing arts.

Première

Processus

In development

Coproduction
Montréal Danse

GALERIE

CREDITS

Creation and performance
Simon Laroche & Liliane Moussa

Dramaturgy
Kathy Casey

Costume design: Marie-Audrey Jacques

Sound device design
Anne-F Jacques and Simon Laroche

Software development
Samuël Lefebvre

ETS Researcher
David Labbé

Research collaboration
Claire Pearl, Emile Pineault, Marine Rixhon, Audrey Rochette, Emmalie Ruest, Alanna Kraaijeveld

L’article Fortune Nation est apparu en premier sur Montréal Danse.

Memories Map

montrealdanse — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 22:45:13 +0000

Memories Map

Aurélie Pédron

MEMORY MAP is a relational work woven from shared memories. It is built through the association of ideas or references, allowing personal anecdotes to emerge.

We ask ourselves: how is the other reflected in me and opens me up to my memories, how do personal memories meet universally?

MEMORY MAP breaks down the boundaries of what separates us in favor of what unites us, taking us from the personal to the universal.

A performance that’s both playful and ritualistic, it unfolds in warehouses, attics and other spaces where dust and objects settle.

La coproduction

In 2014, Aurélie Pedron participated in Ateliers de recherche chorégraphique de Montréal Danse. In 2019, the choreographer will collaborate with Montréal Danse and Danse-Cité to create Invisible, a work in which the intimate creative experience becomes a vector of transformation and emotion for the audience. Aurélie Pedron’s rich sensibility and her unifying work match Kathy Casey’s desire to make room for the spectator’s influence in the unfolding of her works. So it was natural that the collaboration continued with the creation of Memory Map.

Première

Processus

In development

Durée
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Diffusion
–

Coproduction
Montréal Danse, Lilith&Cie

GALERIE

CRÉDITS

Direction artistique
Aurélie Pédron en collaboration avec les danseurs.ses Robert Abubo, Hoor Malas, Nasim Lootij, Nicolas Patry, Lael Stellick

Merci à tous les danseurs.es qui ont participé au processus, notamment tous les artistes qui ont participé au projet FAIRE_CORPS

Dramaturge
Kathy Casey

L’article Memories Map est apparu en premier sur Montréal Danse.

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