Invisible
Aurélie Pedron
We see Invisible as an artistic party game that reveals our codependency and interactivity.
Invisible is an ode for 9 performers, a celebratory space of joyous complicity inviting audiences and performers to play, exchange and connect. Over 12 to 72 hours, the spectator is called to experience the continuum of time and nourish the work’s transformation through different interventions.
Time becomes an architect. The dancers’ everyday lives fold into the work, and the work invites itself into the everyday lives of the spectators. Rather than promoting a marathon mindset or a sense of exhaustion, the path of Invisible garners the power of the group to cross limits and thresholds, be they personal or collective. At the heart of the work is the sense of community formed through ritual.
In a space halfway between a living room, a flea market and a sacred place, the public can choose their vantage point and how to intervene. Viewers can return as many times as they wish, at any time of the day or night, to experience the transformation of the work.
In this day and age, a collective process in which participants-spectators and performers build and deconstruct a work together seems an essential act of resilience and resistance.
Coproduction
In 2014, Aurélie Pedron participated in Montréal Danse’s Choreographic Research Workshop. In 2019, a collaboration began between the choreographer, Montréal Danse and Danse-Cité for the creation Invisible, a work in which the intimate creative experience becomes a way for spectators to be moved and transformed. The rich sensitivity of Aurélie Pedron and her attentiveness to everyone in a room intersects with Kathy Casey’s desire that publics have influence on works as they unfold.
Premiere
2022
Process
GALLERY
CREDITS
Artistic direction
Aurélie Pedron in collaboration with the dancers
Performers
Ariane Boulet, Charles Brecard, Rachel Harris, Emmanuel Jouthe, Luce Lainé, Caroline Namts, Charlie Prince, Silvia Sanchez, Abe Simon Mijnheer, Zoë Vos
Dancers participating in the creation process
Tony Chong, Peter Jasko, Marie-Reine Kabasha, Isabelle Poirier, Kim-E Poirier, Carol Prieur, Linda Rabin, David Rancourt, Sovann Rochon-Prom Tep, Eve Rousseau-Cyr, Georges-Nicolas Tremblay, Arielle Warnke St-Pierre
Dramaturg
Kathy Casey
Technical direction
Samuel Thériault
Set design
Kévin Pinvidic
Lighting design
Chantal Labonté / Hugo Dalphond
Interactive sound environment
Alexandre Burton
Partners
LAVI – Laboratoire Arts Vivants et Interdisciplinarité, Département de danse de l’UQÀM
Creation residencies
Cas Public, Mois Multi, Maison pour la danse de Québec, Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Compagnie Cas Public, Compagnie Marie Chouinard, LAVI– Laboratoire Arts Vivants et Interdisciplinarité, Département de danse de l’UQÀM