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Fragiles Apparitions – variations in 3 songs

montrealdanse — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:08:20 +0000

Fragiles Apparitions – variations in 3 songs

Wendt+Dufaux

Fragile Apparitions – variations in 3 songs is a three-part ritual that explores the soft power of the ephemeral. Between textile carapaces and soft organs, architectures of soap films and mirror reflections, this performance-installation envelops us in an immersive, sensorial environment where forms tremble, dissolve, and reappear.

Structured as three songs in dialogue, the work moves through three interconnected movements in which dance, matter, and live music merge. Each song traces a different state of transformation—revealing the delicacy of the living, the slowness of metamorphosis, and the persistence of touch as an act of resistance.

The result of an extended research process, Fragile Apparitions brings together the collaborative practice of Sarah Wendt and Pascal Dufaux, whose work bridges choreography, sculpture, sound, and installation. Their research explores the viscosity and behaviour of materials—soap films, honey, textiles, and hybrid sculptural forms—in relation to the moving body and its sensory perception. In this encounter between bodies and materials, movement and image, the performance offers a hypnotic, tactile experience—an homage to fragility, interdependence, and the precariousness of life.

co-production

Following a week of exploration at the Choreographic Workshops (2023), a deep artistic collaboration was established between the Wendt-Dufaux duo and Montréal Danse. This alliance led to the co-production of Fragiles Apparitions.

The artists’ interdisciplinary and sensory approach has resulted in a work of great poetic power. This collaboration has consolidated the piece’s three-movement structure and deepened the narrative dimension of its scenic landscapes, promising an immersive experience with strong resonance for the audience. The piece will premiere at La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines in February 2026.

Première

Processus

On tour

Durée
75 minutes

Coproduction
Montréal Danse

GALERIE

CREDITS

Set design, choreography, artistic direction, music, sculptures, costumes, and performance
Sarah Wendt & Pascal Dufaux

Dramaturgie
Kathy Casey et Thea Patterson

Interpreters
Elinor Fueter and Rachel Harris

Lighting and set design
Paul Chambers

Inflatable luminous object
Studio Rat

The artists would like to extend their warmest thanks to the artists, friends, and institutions that supported the various stages of creation, particularly through residencies and studio contributions: Musée d’art de Joliette, FURIES festival, Centre de Création O Vertigo, Studio 303, [ìn]operabilities (Theater Kampnagel, Hamburg), Art in the Open (PEI), Antigonight, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Tangente Danse, L’Écart, Art Circulation, CIRCA Art Actuel, Marianne Cloutier, Anne Paré, Raúl Aguilar Canela, Paul Rose, Karen Fennell, Audrée Juteau, Mary Williamson, John Henry Gerena, Gabriela Jovian-Mazon, Charlotte Calais, as well as all the individuals and the entire Montréal Danse team who made this project possible.

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RADIOMATON

montrealdanse — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:28:04 +0000

RADIOMATON

Marie Béland and Simon Laroche

With RADIOMATON fabricate your own truth for free.

Appropriate words and gestures, embody radio news and contribute to the propagation of information without verification.

A total sensory and immersive experience, RADIOMATON questions the construction of truth, media contamination, fake news and the role of the body in the perception of information.

Installed in a cubicle resembling a photo booth and equipped with headphones broadcasting live a local radio station, each RADIOMATON user must repeat aloud the words they hear, while imitating the gestures that are displayed on the screen in front of them. This recorded performance, mingling movements and words that do not match together, is remixed in a kaleidoscope where all meanings intersect.

CO-PRODUCTION

In 2008, Marie Béland took part in Montréal Danse’s Choreographic Research Workshop. This encounter between Marie Béland and Kathy Casey initiated an artistic complicity, a common language and a work complementarity, which led to a series of successful collaborations and the embodiment of the conceptual structures underlying their creations together. This synergy has resulted in three co-productions with Montréal Danse: BETWEEN (2015), BESIDE (2019) and RADIOMATON (2022). For this last production, Simon Laroche, interactive media artist designer, signs his first collaboration with Marie Béland. The audience is invited to question the systems that govern our society and to observe our ways of being together. The artistic partnership between the choreographer and Montréal Danse is still active today.

Premiere

Process

On tour

Duration

5 minutes loop

Booking

Art Circulation

Coproduction

Montréal Danse, maribé – sors de ce corps

GALERIE

CRÉDITS

Coconception and codesign

Marie Béland & Simon Laroche

Performers

Rachel Harris, Bernard Martin, Sylvain Lafortune

Dramaturg

Kathy Casey

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

L’article RADIOMATON est apparu en premier sur Montréal Danse.

All in All

beju — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 16:10:09 +0000

All in All

Benoit Lachambre

All in All is a multi-section, multiform work that embraces cohabitation.

A deep reflection on artistic, socio-cultural and political realities, All in All is a journey through multiple territories. The final part of a triptych composed of Lifeguard and Fluid Grounds, All in All brings together Lebanese, Mexican and Canadian artists in an ambitious and vibrant work.

Over approximately 10 hours, All in All explores how body and consciousness resonate with each other through three segments presented simultaneously: The Ogre, the Phoenix and the Faithful Friend; Boreal Castles; and Perro de Fuego y Rata de Agua (Firedog and Water Rat).

Benoît Lachambre and the artistic team, in collaboration with Kathy Casey (dramaturg), offer an unprecedented spectacularity capturing their common concerns. In the three segments, political contexts and individual identities meet. Past and present overlap. Ritual and performance coexist.

All in All is designed for spaces that allow for the mobility of the viewer, encouraging the plurality of approaches and transdisciplinarity. The work is an invitation to new forms of listening and attention. By inviting performers and the public to share a quality of presence and a diversity of points of view, the work explores the unfailing links that govern us and questions our way of being together.

production

Mutual respect, deep belief in each other’s artistry and complementarity characterize the artistic partnership between Benoît Lachambre and Kathy Casey. First collaborating on the creation of Prisms, for which Benoît Lachambre received the CALQ award for best choreographic work of the 2013-2014 season, Kathy Casey and Benoît Lachambre reunited in 2018 to initiate the creation of a duet involving performers Elinor Fueter and Rachel Harris, a duet that takes place within the work All in All. Displaying close filiation with the work developed by the choreographer with Parbleux over the past years, All in All follows in the footsteps of Lifeguard and Fluid Grounds, where interactions and feelings occupy a predominant place and where the work takes on an artistic form in constant mutation.
All in All is a coproduction of Montréal Danse and Parbleux.

To premiere

Process

On tour

Total duration
10h

Booking
Art Circulation

Coproduction
Montréal Danse, Parbleux

GALLERY

CREDITS

All in All conceptualisation and scenography
Benoît Lachambre

Choreographic and performative development
Elinor Fueter, Rachel Harris, Benoît Lachambre, Charlie Prince, Ricardo Rubio

Dramaturg
Kathy Casey

Perro de Fuego y Rata de Agua
Co-creators of relations/performers: Benoît Lachambre, Ricardo Rubio
Sound installation: Miguel Mesa
Beaded accessories creation: Venado Mestizo

Boreal Castles
Performers: Elinor Fueter, Rachel Harris

L’Ogre, le Phénix et l’Ami fidèle (The Ogre, the Phoenix and the Faithful Friend)
Performer: Charlie Prince
Multimedia installation: Tarek Chemaly

The work is co-produced by Fabbrica Europa festival (Florence, Italy) and CEART (San Luis Potosí, Mexico), and supported by the University Cultural Center Conjunto Santander de Artes Escénicas (Guadalajara, Mexico), the Joliette Art Museum, in collaboration with Diffusion Hector-Charland (Quebec) and Théâtre Alphonse-Desjardins in Repentigny and through creation residencies spread over the years 2021 and 2022.

All in All is a conceptualization of Benoît Lachambre, a production of Montréal Danse and a coproduction of Montréal Danse and Parbleux.

The Ogre, the Phoenix and the Faithful Friend

The Ogre, The Phoenix and the Faithful Friend unites Lebanese-Canadian performer Charlie Prince and Lebanese multimedia artist Tarek Chemaly around questions of historical amnesia, healing, recognition and resilience. Charlie Prince interacts with and transforms an installation composed of suspended coloured panels, on which Tarek Chemaly’s videos are projected, whose assemblage of images from Lebanese pop-culture evokes the period of conflicts that shook the country over several decades. The performance thus reveals the process of creating identity while revisiting the notion of collective (un)conscious and the politics of gaze.

Boreal Castles

A profound meditation on our internal states and our environment, Boreal Castles is in the hands of the Canadian performers Rachel Harris and Elinor Fueter. Fluctuating between lightness, complicity and introspection, the performers create bodily architectures articulated around a eighty large pink hoops manipulated in multiple ways: erected in fragile spheres, intertwined in a nest, swung around or scattered on the ground, these architectures form devices where rites and rhythms intersect. Boreal Castles is a reflective gaze on femininity, identity, interdependence and friendship.

Perro de Fuego y Rata de Agua

Perro de Fuego y Rata de Agua is a performative and sound duet by Benoît Lachambre and Mexican artist Ricardo Rubio. In this work, the performers engage in a vibratory ritual that shatters spatial and bodily notions by making sound dance. Through voice and resonance work, Benoît Lachambre and Ricardo Rubio undertake the creation of internal and external environments that are vibrant, sensitive architectures. Their voices are amplified by transparent, curving shapes that propagate vibrations, filling the space and penetrating the bodies of all who are present.

Symbolic objects combining ancestral and contemporary modalities, created by craftsman Venado Mestizo, punctuate the space.

L’article All in All est apparu en premier sur Montréal Danse.