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
2022
Process
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.