Lutte à l’Est
Caty Wildcat returned to Montreal with Lutte à l’Est’s belt.. and dumped it in the garbage. Mag Tire and Nancy 2-Sucres swore revenge, but above all, to bring the belt BACK HOME. But Caty won’t be defending her title alone, as Stacey Liberty Jones intends to fight along until the very end, and show the local yokels that she’s done laughing. But before they face off for the belt, they’ll have to prove themselves against Marie-Cage, who hasn’t stopped training for the love of her lioness friend who was murdered by the authorities – and against a new wrestler, Gaÿa, freshly coming out of Esprit-Saint’s latest Rainbow gathering.
Once again brought to life by the velvet-punched iron voices of Crystal-Line and Sandra-Lee, we promise you a second gala packed with energy and, above all, zero waste — that’s to say, we’ve sent Jouliano off to be recycled, and we’ve come up with a new referee… to be discovered on the ring!
Mirages by Emmanuel Jouthe and Xavier Curnillon
The composite installation MIRAGES by the Emmanuel Jouthe | Danse Carpe Diem company is an intimate proposition that suggests a mise en abyme of the living.
Various modular stations project different viewpoints of human bodies or short choreographic solos. The work takes on its full meaning through its interaction with the viewer, who, in a gesture of openness, can pick up the dance in the palm of their hands or let it glide over other surfaces.
Listen to See by Maï(g)wenn et les Orteils
Maï(g)wenn et les Orteils and Emmanuel Jouthe | Danse Carpe Diem present a new installment of LISTEN TO SEE danced by professional performers living with an intellectual disability.
LISTEN TO SEE features a variety of solos, scattered throughout the space and danced simultaneously. Equipped with a pair of headphones attached to an iPod, dancers and spectators share a choreography face to face for the duration of a piece of music. Through the sensibility of artists living with disabilities and their singular gestural language, this new part of LISTEN TO SEE is likely to provoke unusual relational situations. In this space of intimacy and proximity, the spectator, challenged by the artist living with an intellectual disability, will be exposed to a very simple artistic experience, and yet one that is likely to change his or her view of the human being and his or her abilities.
DJ Sovann
DJ Sovann brings you an evening of percussion. Join us on the dance floor for a journey through time. Varying between funk, disco, house, RnB and afrobeats, the musical selection will keep you grooving non-stop!
In the remote lands of Eastern so-called Quebec, 600 miles from the city colonially known as Montreal and 600 miles from Gespeg, a bunch of buddies fond of slaps in the face have set up a wrestling league like no other. True to their feminist killjoys ethos, the members of LUTTE À L’EST bring you matches between female and non-binary wrestlers in a whole new genre of ring. IT’S A WAVE, WAIT, NO, IT’S A TSUNAMI OF FEMINIST POWER THAT’S SWEEPING THE SHORES OF BSL AND BEYOND!
Emmanuel Jouthe, the artistic director of the company, has been expressing his art through movement for over 25 years. He uses the body, his primary medium, to allow for beauty and sensitivity to emerge. His choreographic approach is based on the sharing of movement through the poetry of porous materials.
He places the relationship with the Other at the heart of his work, challenging the idea of proximity, as he is currently at a stimulating turning point in his artistic approach. In order to inhabit movement and cultivate an exchange with the viewer, he is now interested in the sensory and organic body, perceived as a physical extension, to embody an open dialogue with other material forms. He wishes to evoke unusual spaces and shift perspectives, hoping to nourish the viewer’s affect more intimately.
After training in classical dance, Maïgwenn Desbois made the leap to contemporary tapdance. She presented her first work as part of the Biennale de gigue contemporaine (BIGICO) at Tangente, choosing to work with different professional artists (Williams syndrome, Asperger syndrome, Down’s syndrome). In 2012 she adopted the name Maï(g)wenn et les Orteils, and in 2014 founded her company as an NPO. From 2011 to 2016, she created and presented Dans ta tête, Six pieds sur terre and Avec pas d’cœur, each time at Tangente. Each of these pieces is taken on tour, leading the company to dance in Quebec and Europe. In 2017, she joined forces with Danse Carpe Diem | Emmanuel Jouthe to adapt the In situ creation Listen to See. In 21-22, she directed the dance video creation project Dans mes yeux under the supervision of director Philippe Meunier. Alongside her work as director, performer and choreographer, Maïgwenn teaches dance, and has given hundreds of workshops in schools (Artistes à l’école and Une école montréalaise pour tous).
DJ Sovann has been immersed in hip hop culture since childhood. A dancer and choreographer by profession, he’s a nightlife enthusiast with a passion for music that gets people dancing. Varying between R&B, house, hip hop, funk, disco and more, he loves to modulate the energy of the dance floor with his fingertips.
Conception, creation, production
Lutte à l’Est
Mirages
ARTISTIC DIRECTION, CONCEPTION AND SCENOGRAPHY
Emmanuel Jouthe
VIDEO DIRECTOR AND CAMERA
Xavier Curnillon
ASSISTANT ARTISTIC DIRECTION AND SCENOGRAPHY
Lila Geneix
CHOREOGRAPHY
The dancers, Emmanuel Jouthe et Xavier Curnillon
DANCERS
Pierre Bastien, Élise Bergeron, Emmanuel Jouthe, James Phillips, Jessica Serli, Carla Soto, Marilyne St-Sauveur
PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTOR
Yann-Manuel Hernandez
SCENARIO
Xavier Curnillon et Emmanuel Jouthe
EDITING AND COLORS
Xavier Curnillon
MUSIC AND SOUND
Antoine Berthiaume
VOICE
Erini, Antoine Berthiaume
PERCUSSION AND VOICE
Vagelis Karipis
AUDIO MIXING
Antoine Berthiaume
ASSISTANT TO THE INSTALLATION’S CONCEPTION
Mirari and Myriam Simard Parent
INSTALLATION’S PRODUCTION
Atelier 360 and Myriam Simard Parent
OUFIT
Jonathan Beaudoin
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Claire Pearl
(Mélanie Primeau)
DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS
Sarah Germain
(Mélia Boivin)
PRODUCTION
Emmanuel Jouthe | Danse Carpe Diem
Concept
Emmanuel Jouthe | Danse Carpe Diem
Artistic direction
Emmanuel Jouthe and Maïgwenn Desbois
Choreographies
Elaborated by the dancers
Dancers
Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Roxane Charest-Landry Geneviève Morin-Dupont, Jean-François Hupé, Nicolas Labelle, Sébastien Provencher, Stéphanie Colle, Anne Tremblay
Music
Dj Sovann
