Maï(g)wenn et les Orteils © Courtesy of the artist
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.
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).
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
