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
Durée
50 minutes in theatre
10 to 35 minutes outdoors
Booking
FÔVE Diffusion
Coproduction
Montréal Danse, Lorganisme
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.