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Cartes postales de Chimère

Numeridanse 2015

Choreographer(s) : Bédard, Louise (Canada)

Present in collection(s): Numeridanse

Video producer : Louise Bedard danse

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Cartes postales de Chimère

Numeridanse 2015

Choreographer(s) : Bédard, Louise (Canada)

Present in collection(s): Numeridanse

Video producer : Louise Bedard danse

en fr

Cartes postales de Chimère

Cartes postales de Chimère is originally a solo created for and by Louise Bédard in 1996. In February 2015, it returned to stage. The choreographer chose two charismatics dancers to learn the role she created on herself : Isabelle Poirier and Lucie Vigneault.
A single figure wanders through time and across different paths to imaginary continents; towards vast and opulent places. Movements emerge, like landmarks along the way. Where are we? Who is she and where are we going? In worlds that are shaped by mature hands, lands made rich by a child’s eyes.


Source: Louise Bédard Danse

Credits

Choreographer
LOUISE BÉDARD

Dancers
ISABELLE POIRIER / LUCIE VIGNEAULT

Music
BRAHMS, KRONOS QUARTET

Musical Research and Sountrack, soundtrack of the extract gave to Numéridanse
MICHEL F. CÔTÉ

Set design
RICHARD LACROIX

Costume and makeup
ANGELO BARSETTI

Lighting design
LUCIE BAZZO

Video : DOMINIQUE BOUCHARD

The video has been made thanks to the support of Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique.

Running time of the entire show : 70 minutes

More information
www.lbdanse.org

Bédard, Louise

Louise Bédard is an artist in her own right. For more than thirty years  she has been mixing her career as a choreographer and performers. After  completing her dance training, notably with Groupe Nouvelle Aire, Louise  Bédard was quickly noticed as a talented performer. During the 1980’s,  she collaborated with many choreographers and artists. Already in 1983,  Louise was awarded the Canada Council’s Jacqueline-Lemieux Award, for  her outstanding work. In 1987, she co-founded the Circuit-Est centre  chorégraphique that currently provides her with rehearsal and creation  space. She becomes more and more aware of the true richness of dance as a  language and decides to try her hand at choreographing herself. She  formed her own company in 1990: Louise Bédard Danse. Since then, she has  created more than 30 dance pieces for her company as well as around 15  commissions for other groups and artists.

The dancers’ human dimension and interactions between different generations are at the heart of her creations. They addresse topics such as otherness, identity, belonging to the world and femininity. The work and the path of women artists, painters, visual artists, sculptors, photographers from here or elsewhere, are the bases on which she relies regularly and until today to enrich her imagination and her approach. They are artists that she has also made discovered through parallel activities to her shows.

Her choreographic work is strongly influenced by her personal background as a performer. Louise Bédard creates and presents her works as structures in successive layers that give her imagination its fullest expression. Space, places, visual arts and objects are often at the core of her works. Her choreographic language is often described as a fine one, describing the human strenght and fragility, letting the subjectivity taking place in each one. Louise’s multiple experiences bring her to come closer to the essence of the movement, that lets her the necessary space to free her boundless imaginary. 


Source: Louise Bédard 's website

More information : lbdanse.org

Cartes postales de chimères

Choreography : Louise Bédard

Interpretation : Isabelle Poirier, Lucie Vigneault

Original music : Michel F. Côté

Additionnal music : Brahms, Kronos Quartet

Lights : Lucie Bazzo

Costumes : Angelo Barsetti (costumes et maquillage)

Production / Coproduction of the video work : Captation des images par DOMINIQUE BOUCHARD - cette captation vidéo a été rendue possible grâce à Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique.

Duration : 70'

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