Photo : © Kinga Michalska
This show will be completely reimagined and adapted for a midday performance in a sand pit. Come (re)experience UNARMOURED in the heart of the Marsoui Valley!
Clara Furey specialises in existential dance experiments that explore various states of being. Through physical research into water, the choreographer brings the immensity of an inner sea to the stage floor. With UNARMOURED, Furey reunites and reconciles what has previously been separate, the performance emerging from a fluid, carnal chaos whose crashing waves suggest infinity as a transformative emotion. The dancers appear as unsettling sculptures, undertaking an artistic exploration that awakens compelling desires. With a soft-core approach, always in-between, always edging, they claim the right to eroticism on their terms. In a garden of resonance, bodies vibrate to rhythmic waves of light and sound, an immersive sound composition created by musician Twin Rising. Membranes stretch and boundaries blur. Bodies no longer need to be seen for their contours but for the energy that overflows them. They release an erotic power that runs through us and propels us with force, leaving us fundamentally curious and tantalised.
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To get to the sand pit, head to the intersection of Route de la Rivière (also known as Route de la Colonie) and Route de la Mine Candegos, near the “GDS Bois Marsoui” facility. The FURIES team will be there to guide you to the exact location of the performance.
Video : © Baco Lepage-Acosta
Clara Furey is a choreographer and performer based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She explores the codes that travel in and across various art forms. She looks at encouraging an awakening of the sensorial perceptions of the audience and the performers, giving them emotive immediacy, direct access.
After completing musical training at the Conservatoire de Paris, she trained as a dancer at École de danse contemporaine de Montréal (EDCM) and later worked with several choreographers.
In 2017, she choreographed her first group work, Cosmic Love. She also gave 90 performances of her solo piece When Even The as part of the MAC exhibition honouring Leonard Cohen. In 2019 she created Rather a Ditch, a solo piece performed by Céline Bonnier.
With Dog Rising (2021), Furey concludes her exploration of tension and immobility, freeing previously contained energies in a performance focusing on persistence, groove and pleasure.
With her latest creation, UNARMOURED (2024), she calls for an erotism on her terms. A polyphonic architecture of pleasure.
Photo : © Beatrice Borgers
Concept and artistic direction: Clara Furey
Choreographed by: Clara Furey in collaboration with Justin De Luna, Be Heintzman Hope, Brian Mendez
Performed by: Justin De Luna, Clara Furey, Chéline Lacroix, Brian Mendez
Musical composition and Live spatialization: Twin Rising
Artistic witness: Bettina Blanc Penther, Aisha Sasha John
Rehearsal direction: Lucie Vigneault, Simon Portigal
Costume design: Be Heintzman Hope
Lighting design: Paul Chambers
Assistant lighting design: Jordana Natale
Technical director: Jenny Huot, Darah Miah
Diffusion: A propic | Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent
Production: Bent Hollow Cie
Executive production: Parbleux
Co-production: Atelier de Paris – CDCN (France), Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans – Direction Maud Le Pladec (France), Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara Trento (Italie / Italy), Charleroi-Danse (Belgique / Belgium), Festival TransAmériques (Montréal, Canada)
Partners and supports for creation ㅡ Artiste associée de l’Usine C pour la cohorte 2021-2024 (Montréal, Canada), Parbleux (Montréal, Canada)
Developed in collaboration with: The National Creation Fund of the National Arts Center of Canada
The creation of this work was made possible thanks to the financial support of: Conseil des Arts du Canada, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal.
