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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

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). 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

2019

Process

On tour

Duration
60 minutes

Booking
Art Circulation

Production
maribé – sors de ce corps, Montréal Danse

Dossier de presse

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

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