Joining forces in a captivating exhibit-show, several dancers, visual artists, multimedia artists, thinkers and soundscape and set designers will be transforming the Galerie de l’UQAM into a giant kaleidoscope, a splintered panoramic look at the body.

A man plays with his digital double while the genome of a dancer is inscribed on a painting. A foetus lies dormant in an aquarium a few strides away from imaginary anatomical charts. Free to move around, the spectator-visitor lingers at the edge of a forest of white string inhabited by unpredictable words and movements, mere inches away from the breath of a dancer and a close-up image of human skin, all multiple echoes of the unfathomable mystery of The Body in Question (s).

Following in the footsteps of the interdisciplinary adventure Perspectives Montréal presented at the FTA in 2007, the choreographer Isabelle Van Grimde is the driving force behind this exhibit and its focus on the evolving destiny of the body, affected as it is by nature, culture, science and technology.

 

PRODUCED BY Van Grimde Corps Secrets

CURATOR AND CHOREOGRAPHY Isabelle Van Grimde

ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHER Soula Trougakos

PERFORMED BY Marie Brassard + Sophie Breton + Robin Poitras + Soula Trougakos + Brian Webb

VISUAL AND MEDIA ARTISTS Derek Besant + Brennan/Caulfield/Mills + Kate Craig + Nadia Myre + Marilène Oliver + Monique Régimbald-Zeiber

MUSIC Thom Gossage

ARCHITECT AND SET DESIGN Anick La Bissonnière IN ASSOCIATION WITH Éric O. Lacroix

LIGHTING DESIGN Lucie Bazzo

VIDEO Foumalade

ESSAYS Dr Cristian Berco + Dr Dawna Gilchrist V

ISUAL ARTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE Louise Déry + Kitty Scott

PHOTO Michael Slobodian

IN ASSOCIATION WITH Brian Webb Dance Company (Edmonton)

COPRODUCTION Festival TransAmériques + Brian Webb Dance Company + CanDance Canadian Network of Dance Presenters (Toronto) + Festival Danse Canada (Ottawa) + Centennial Theatre (Lennoxville) + University of Alberta

CREATIVE RESIDENCIES The Banff Centre + Agora de la danse

CODIFFUSION Galerie de l’UQAM

Première at Festival TransAmériques, May 28, 2012