Photo : © Vanessa Fortin
Between perpetual construction and collapse, two performers and some 250 bricks form ephemeral landscapes together.
Their encounter traces fragments of houses to inhabit, which in turn fragment the performers’ bodies. Like a living mortar, the movement pours into the interstices of the installation. Conceived as sentient beings, the bricks enter in dialogue with the bodies. Within this evanescent dance, the performers appear and disappear into the material they’re engaging with, opening up a space for reflection on how we build and live in a transforming world. As the landscape transforms, it invites us to settle and contemplate, like clouds in a living sky.
S’imbriquer is a field of reflection and sensation that raises questions about our ways of building and investing in a world in transformation.
Since 2019, Philippe Dépelteau has developed a practice in dialogue with ecology, community and the performing arts. Interested in artistic experimentation at a tangible human scale, Philippe creates playgrounds in which performers explore human-material relations through somatic experiences. His tender and introspective choreographic universe elicits sensorial engagement as a means of reflection on ecology, habitation, and environmental transformation. His work as been presented in various festivals in Canada, such as OFFTA (2024), Summerworks (2024) and Ciné-Vert (2021-22). He is currently working on his first experimental dance short film, in collaboration with film director Axel Robin.
Philippe frequently leads and engages in artistic projects with social and community values, including several cultural mediation projects with an queer and intergenerational perspective. Interested by how people inhabit the territory they live in, Philippe is currently studying landscape architecture at University of Montreal. (Photo : Marie Lévêque)
Artistic director
Philippe Dépelteau
Performance
Léonie Bélanger
Claire Pearl
