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GROUND

Caroline Laurin-Beaucage

GROUND is also offered in different formats, ranging from 10 to 35 minutes, from three to five dancers, without lighting or scenery, for outdoor or alternative venues, and with the possibility of digital broadcast.

GROUND explores the impulses of the individual and the collective, the resonances and resistances of five bodies united by gravity. GROUND reveals what instinctively or physiologically holds us together, and makes the stage a mirror of our human conditions.

In GROUND, the performers observe each other, oscillate and move with the same movements, at once isolated and united by the constraints of rebound and coordination. The group becomes organic, inhabited by tensions, a moving landscape where gestures and aspirations constantly influence each other.

Hypnotic, captivating, the performance reveals the dynamics and unconscious interdependencies of a social body, becoming a confronting mirror of our impending future. GROUND is a radical work, performed face to face with the audience and supported by a breathtaking and carefully crafted choreographic score, proposing an existential reflection on what animates, distinguishes and brings us together.

In this minimalistic, yet fascinating tour-de-force, Caroline Laurin-Beaucage addresses the themes of temporality and spatiality and pursues her study of the body as material, observed in its variations.

production

In 2012, Caroline Laurin-Beaucage participated in Montréal Danse’s Choreographic Research Workshop. This encounter marks the beginning of a fruitful and active collaboration between the choreographer and the company: White Matter was created in 2015, followed by GROUND and REBO(U)ND in 2018 — the latter in collaboration with mirari. Caroline Laurin-Beaucage and Kathy Casey share a unique vision that explores unchartered waters. Their artistic partnership is still active to this day.

Premiere

2018

Process

On tour

Durée
50 minutes in theatre
10 to 35 minutes outdoors

Booking
FÔVE Diffusion

Coproduction
Montréal Danse, Lorganisme

Dossier de presse

GALLERY

CREDITS

Choreographer
Caroline Laurin-Beaucage

Performers
Rachel Harris, Kimberley De Jong, David Rancourt, Elinor Fueter

Performers at creation
Brianna Lombardo, Louis-Elyan Martin

Dramaturg
Kathy Casey

Music
Larsen Lupin

Set design & costumes
Odile Gamache

Lighting
David-Alexandre Chabot

Lighting adaptation
Benoit Larivière and Caroline Laurin-Beaucage

Coproduction
Agora de la danse

Creation residencies
Agora de la danse, Maison de la Culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

GROUND + REBO(U)ND are among the 200 exceptional projects supported by Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program. With this $35-million initiative, the Canada Council helps showcase the diversity of artistic expression across Canada.

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