Van Grimde Corps Secrets will once again welcome the public to its Malvina creation and presentation center for a host of activities in summer 2024, in this fascinating place where nature, culture, heritage and new technologies meet! Discover our 2024 program here!
In a post-technological world where nature has yet to be rebuilt and bodies still bear traces of their colonization by machines, humans attempt to survive by reconnecting to their primitive neural architecture, in order to rewrite their environment. Within this hybrid universe, an amalgam of technological and organic relics, it is breath, sound and the…
Plongez-vous dans l’univers immersif de Messis. Découvrez-y cette websérie en trois épisodes ainsi qu’une foule de contenus complémentaires vous permettant de vous plonger dans l’ensemble du travail ayant mené à la création de cette œuvre. Dans Messis (qui signifie “récolte” en latin), nous découvrons un futur proche où les individus sont physiquement séparés les uns…
Van Grimde Corps Secrets renews its activities at Malvina, its Eastern Townships venue, for a second year running! To visit The exhibition Malvina in the old days Launched in 2022, the heritage exhibition Malvina in the old days illustrates in images the rich history of this enchanting site, once the heart of an ancient…
DY3CORPIA is the third iteration of Dyscorpia: Future Intersections of the Body and Questions. In the shadow of COVID-19 and blinding light of the screen, DY3CORPIA is being hosted in a digital twin of Enterprise Square Galleries where the first DYSCORPIA was mounted in 2019. DY3CORPIA artists continue to interrogate the increasingly complex intersections of…
We are proud to announce that EVE 2050: The Installation has won a Numix Award in the Digital Art category! The jury praised Van Grimde Corps Secrets for “a production that amplifies the strength and movement of a performing art,” and for the “engaging nature of the piece, which integrates the viewer into its expressive…
Virtual exhibition April 8 to May 8 BRAD NECYK & GARY JAMES JOYNES | VAN GRIMDE CORPS SECRETS & DAVAI >> Click here for free access to the virtual space EMBODIMENT 2 From 2015 to 2019, Van Grimde Corps Secrets shared the scientific research documents underlying the creation of the EVE 2050 triptych with its…
Sorry, this entry is only available in Français.
Van Grimde Corps Secrets has been invited to tour Germany this fall with EVE 2050: The Installation. We look forward to meeting the audiences of these prestigious cultural institutions! From November 5 to 8, 2020, we will be at the Muffatwerk in Munich. This major venue, considered an international cultural hub, will host EVE 2050:…
The Transdisciplinary and International Virtual Hub study is an initiative of Van Grimde Corps Secrets, in collaboration with the RQD, the Creation and New Media department of UQAT, and Hela Zahar, PHD, Director of the Pôle lavallois d’enseignement supérieur en arts numériques et économie créative. On September 2, 2020, Synapse C‘s Director of Analysis, Viêt Cao, presented the…
For close to a year now, Isabelle Van Grimde and her team have been working on a virtual reality prototype based on the work EVE 2050. This new adventure stems from a collaboration with UQAT, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, following extensive discussions regarding the artistic and scientific interest of such a project, for both…
With the aim of designing a transdisciplinary and international virtual HUB, we are now in the consultation phase of this community project. What are the new needs of the artists, researchers, creation/production/presentation organizations, and members of the public who will use it? In collaboration with the various arts communities—dance, music, theatre, circus, literature, visual and…
EVE 2050: The Web Series is a finalist of the Numix Awards in the category “interactive digital work”. The awards ceremony will take place digitally on June 17. “We are in 2050, in a world where being human no longer means what we’re used to. The technological and biomedical advances of the last 30 years have…
Virtual Hub Coordinator Van Grimde Corps Secrets, a dance and digital production company, is exploring the possibility of creating a transdisciplinary and international virtual Hub. The goal will be to create a space and digital tools leading to new opportunities in creation, exchanges, learning, development and performance. The ideal candidate will have an in-depth knowledge…
EVE 2050: the stage production was to open the Casablanca International Video Art Festival, whose focus for the year is Quebec, from April 14 to 18, 2020. The event is unfortunately postponed to later this year and will be held on Novembre 24 to 28. During this festival, poetry, dance, performances, installations, virtual & augmented reality, video…
Eligible candidates: Dance professionals residing in Quebec. Emerging, mid-career or established individuals or organizations. Application deadline: May 15, 2020 Since 2017, VAN GRIMDE CORPS SECRETS has opened its creation site to the professional dance community with its Digital Dance Lab, a space for experimentation focusing on the interactions between dance and digital technologies. With training…
FROM JANUARY 16 TO FEBRUARY 2 A presentation of works by Marilène Oliver and Sean Caulfield. Curator : Isabelle Van Grimde. BOOK HERE A word from the Curator With the aim of opening our creation centre to the public and to other art forms, Van Grimde Corps Secrets is organizing a series of exhibitions in the coming…
Following on Eve 2050 the web series and the interactive installation (2018), Van Grimde Corps Secrets now brings this choreographic, scientific and philosophical exploration of the human body to the stage. From October 8 to 11 at Agora de la danse, in the Red Space at Wilder Building. Eight dancers of diverse origins make their way through an immersive, interactive…
The Digital Dance Lab will launch its activities in autumn 2019. In partnership with the RQD (Regroupement Québécois de la Danse) and the New Media Department at the University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, VGCS is creating a space for exploration, reflection and experimentation that is open to artists, performers, designers and cultural workers interested in…
The captivating Edmonton exhibition Dyscorpia which houses Eve 2050: The Web Series since April 27 is extended to June 30 thanks to its success. Dyscorpia was sparked by the triptych Eve 2050, with this in mind Isabelle Van Grimde was given the honor of delivering the keynote address for the opening. Eve 2050: The Web Series is screened for the entire duration of the exhibition (to popular…
On Thursday, May 30, 2019, 6 PM and 7 PM, we are at the eagerly awaited Printemps numérique’s Fashion Tech, with an except from Eve 2050: The Installation specially woven for the occasion. “Sashay into the world of smart fashion through immersive demos and interactive performances at this event celebrating Montreal in motion.” ► Facebook…
Artists and thinkers of all fields react to the triptych Eve 2050 in Dyscorpia: Future Intersections of the Body and Technology, an exhibition taking place in Edmonton, from April 23rd to May 12. Isabelle Van Grimde will give the keynote address, and Eve 2050: The Web-Series, one of the works, will be screened for the entire duration of the exhibition. Several works…
Isabelle Van Grimde will give a lecture at the “Théâtre des muses de la Maison des arts de Laval”, in the context of a series of presentations organized by the “Regroupement d’organismes culturels et d’artistes lavallois” (ROCAL), and more specifically in the context of the “Creation Hub, Knowledge/Culture”. ” Ma pratique artistique transformée par le…
It is with great pleasure that Van Grimde Corps Secrets joins Agence Mickaël Spinnhirny to promote Eve 2050 at the Rideau 2019 event, from February 17 to 20. Come and see us!
From February 25th to March 1st, explore the art of choreography with interactive digital technologies particularly well-suited to dance. It’s a unique opportunity—don’t wait, space is very limited.
Do not miss Une journée dans la vie de l’Édifice Wilder, a report by Michel Labrecque from Radio-Canada. Many important figures from the Montreal dance scene are interviewed, including Isabelle Van Grimde.
In the beautiful Salle Rouge of the Édifice Wilder, courtesy of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, in collaboration with the Agora de la danse, we begin the creation of The Stage Production, the last part of our triptych Eve 2050.
You missed the presentations at Agora de la danse in September? No worries, you will get another chance to experience it at Arsenal Contemporary Art. In collaboration with Danse Danse and Arsenal Contemporary Art, Van Grimde Corps Secrets will present Eve 2050: The Performative Installation during OFF-CINARS 2018, November 13 to 17! Arsenal art contemporain 2020, rue William Montréal (Québec) Nov. 13, 8:30 pm…
We will introduce the public to technologies specifically designed for dance: tracking and capture devices, like infrared cameras and Kinect! Guided by our expert performers-dancers, the public will be able to experience how movements allow one to modulate space and create visual and sound effects. Welcome to all! Photo: Jérôme Delapierre, with Sophie Breton.
Sorry, this entry is only available in Français.
Sorry, this entry is only available in Français.
Sorry, this entry is only available in Français.
What can a historian have to say about a yet unborn woman, a mere spark in our imagination destined to live through impossible to grasp circumstances? As a student of the past, of its bodies and its cultures, what strikes me is the unpredictability of historical change. The twists and turns of circumstance are…
The webseries will be broadcast from May 16, to June 16, 2018 on vangrimdecorpssecrets.com and vimeo/vangrimdecorpssecrets Eve 2050 brings you into a world were nature and culture are reconciled in this meeting between the primal body—its ancestral heritage expressed through a visceral gestural vocabulary—and the body of the future, transformed by its connection with technology.…
Eve 2050 was recently unveiled at the Arsenal as part of the Mardi Culturel TD. During this evening, the six dance projects in the Montreal area supported by the Canada Council for the Arts through the New chapter program were presented : Dana Gingras, Danse Danse, MAYDAY, Montréal Danse, Rhodnie Désir and Van Grimde Corps Secrets. We were…
We are pleased to present our upcoming creation, Eve 2050 as part of the Mardi Culturel TD, at the Arsenal on Tuesday October 17th at 6pm. During this evening, you will discover the six dance projects in the Montreal area supported by the Canada Council for the Arts through the New Chapter program: Dana Gingras,…
Immerse yourself in the world of Van Grimde Corps Secrets ! Led by choreographer Isabelle Van Grimde in collaboration with performer Sophie Breton, composer-performer Thom Gossage and digital artist Jérôme Delapierre, this workshop is an unique opportunity to : -Learn the company’s gestural vocabulary. -Discover “Open Work” Concepts. -Explore and experience the interactive technologies…
The Montreal Company Van Grimde Corps Secrets is inviting researchers and artists from all disciplines to contribute to its next creation, Eve 2050. This contribution, in the form of a short essay outlining your vision of the body of the future based on your field of research, will have a direct impact on the work’s…
May 11, 12, and 13, 2017 : Maison des Arts de Créteil – Paris (France) May 9, 2017 : Stereolux – Nantes (France) April 19 to 21, 2017 : Le Wilder – Montreal (Canada) (presented by Agora de la Danse) January 20 and 21, 2017 : Timms Center for the Arts – Edmonton (presented by…
