BESIDE
Marie Béland
La pièce BESIDE est adaptée au contexte actuel et peut être présentée dans le respect des règles de distanciation.
BESIDE is the third work in a trilogy by Montreal choreographer Marie Béland. The piece relies on our repeated attempts to communicate with others through the barrage of information and noise from the media.
Equipped with headphones, the three performers are the only ones hearing the retransmission of the radio stations in the city where the piece is presented. In order to communicate with the public and each other, Rachel Harris, Sylvain Lafortune and Bernard Martin can only repeat the information in their headphones or reproduce the movements learned from typical TV public affairs shows. Dispossessed of their bodies and their words, they try to live side by side (“beside”) and build the credibility necessary to transmit a little truth where everything is false. If each performance is unique as it relies on live radio, the result is always the same: the media little by little pushes the performers into a void. It remains to be seen whether the public will be able to extricate themselves from it.
production
Premiere
2019
Process
GALLERY
CREDITS
Choreographer
Marie Béland
Performers
Rachel Harris, Bernard Martin, Sylvain Lafortune
Dramaturg
Kathy Casey
Costumes
Dave St-Pierre
Lighting & technical direction
Karine Gauthier
Creation residencies
Cardiff Dance Festival – Dance4 International Center for Choreography, Nottingham – La Rotonde de Québec – La Corporation Hector-Charland – Théâtre du Vieux-Terrebonne