Photo : © David Wong
Les jeux du crépuscules (The Twilight Games) is a choreographic work innervated by the experiences of eight artists involved in the Mouvement de passage project carried out in nursing homes since 2014. The intention is to create a witness work that transcends the physical, sensory and emotional memories of each of the artists who took part in the project, and to ask the essential questions that emerged from a substantial and transformative experience.
The show will be presented in French, followed by a 30-minute discussion with the artist.
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Ahead of the festival, Mouvement de passage artists will make several visits to CHSLDs in the Haute-Gaspésie region. In addition, a workshop for residents⸱e⸱s and their loved ones will be held at La maison de la culture Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, to explore ways of creating bonds using non-verbal language. The workshop will be guided by Ariane Boulet, founder of the project, and Isabelle Poirier, dance teacher, rehearsal coach and performer, and will offer tools, avenues for reflection and exercises to open the door to the creation of new, meaningful bonds. How do you spend time with someone living with a neurocognitive disorder? What can we do together, beyond verbal language? How do you inhabit the place that is the CHSLD, as a visitor? The workshop will also address the concept of white mourning. There’s a sense of loss when your loved one is no longer the same, but this new reality can open up other realms of possibility.
The presentation of Les jeux du crépuscule is supported by La maison de la culture de Sainte-Anne-des-Monts.
Ariane Boulet is a dance artist who has been active as a performer and creator for 15 years. She is also co-director of the organization Le Radeau, which develops artistic practices based on a horizontal management model and the values of listening and community.
As a performer, she has danced in the studio and on stage for some twenty choreographers since 2009. Within Le Radeau, she has also created and co-created a dozen filmic, scenic, in situ and performative works. In a quest for what living art can meet, connect and weave, in 2014 she completed a master’s degree in dance, where she focused on creation in care settings.
Since 2016, she has been guiding her flagship project of danced visits in Residential and Long-Term Care Centers (CHSLD), which integrates dance and music into a residential context for people losing their autonomy and at the end of life, and offers them a privileged and sensitive contact with their bodies and creativity.
Trained in graduate studies at the Université de Montréal as a lay spiritual care worker and in bereavement and end-of-life support, she has also guided numerous movement workshops. These workshops have led her to create projects with artists, patients and caregivers, as well as citizens everywhere in Quebec and internationally. She also acts as a cultural mediator to deploy the importance of creating contexts in which to experience dance and transform our sensitive relationship with the world (Photo: Emily Gan).
Artistic Director and Creator
Ariane Boulet
Musical director and composer
Marie Vallée
Performer-creator
Audrey Bergeron, Joannie Douville, Lucy May, Isabelle Poirier, David Rancourt, Georges-Nicolas Tremblay, Julie Tymchuk
Lighting Designer and Set Designer
Audrée Lewka
Costume Designer
Julie Tymchuk
Soundscape Designer
Tom Demers
Videographer
Robin Pineda-Gould
Poet
Clémence Dumas-Côté
Outside eye
Nicolas Filion, Sophie Michaud, Sarah-Ève Grant
Sound engineer
Guy Fortin
Stage manager
Stéphanie Savaria
Producers
Le Radeau, Théâtre Hector-Charland and Danse-Cité
Distribution
FÔVE diffusion
