© Photo : Maxime Côté
In response to the climate and energy crises, Warm up pushes consumer society to the limit. It tackles head-on the blind spot of sustainable development and our unbridled use of natural resources and electricity. So how do you create an eco-responsible show? By generating your own electricity with your body and a bicycle?
In the ultimate experiment in energy self-sufficiency, Mykalle pedals to recharge a battery that powers the elements of her show. A sporting performance, manifesto, concert and meditation, Warm up explores the decreases needed to heal our greed and rebuild our broken bond with nature. In the sacredness of song and ritual gesture, the show reveals the crucial role artists can play in raising awareness of the climate crisis.
Performance in French.
In collaboration with SummerWorks.
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Singer, multidisciplinary artist, composer and author, Mykalle Bielinski has been working at the crossroads of music and the performing arts for over a decade. Her powerful, crystalline voice conjures up music that resonates with the deepest intimacy as well as the greatest universality. Her album Da pacem (2024) fuses sacred chant and electronic music, drawing on neoclassical, liturgical, traditional and pop music. Since graduating from UQAM’s École Supérieure de théâtre en interprétation in 2011, she has been recognized for her singular stage presence and ritualized musical creations. Her trilogy on the sacred consists of three concert-performances: Gloria (2015), a 360-degree multimedia solo opera – Myth (2018), a mystical ceremony for 5 voices and Warm up (2021), an ecological ritual where she produces her own electricity. She has also composed and performed for some fifty projects in theater, dance, film and podcast, been a radio columnist, lent her voice to productions (7 doigts, Cirque du Soleil) and published in 2021, Mythe, preceded by Gloria, a collection of poetry with Éditions du passage. She has performed in Quebec, Canada and Europe. (© Photo : Justine Latour)
Concept, performance, text
Mykalle Bielinski
Dramaturge
Myriam Stéphanie Perraton-Lambert
Collaboration on stage direction
Édith Patenaude
Power Plant
Gabriel Duquette
