2019
Innervision
Outdoor performance
Director, Choreography, Music
Martin Messier
Creative and Choreographic Advisor
Caroline Laurin-Beaucage
Scenography and Costumes
Odile Gamache
Artistic Coordinator
Ingrid Vallus
Production Director
Émilie Martel
Costumes assistant
Léonie Blanchet
Music
Paul Jebanasam, Martin Messier
Dancers
Audrey Bergeron, Élise Bergeron, Marc Boivin, Charles Brécard, Sophie Breton, Ja James Britton Johnson, Marie-Ève Carrière, Miranda Chan, Matéo Chauchat, Jimmy Chung, Émilie Demers, Kimberley de Jong, Marie-Ève Demers, Amber Downie-Back, Mark Durand, Bailey Eng, Bradley Eng, Karen Fennell, Stéphanie Fromentin, Elinor Fueter, Gina Grant, Susannah Haight, Sara Hanley, Valmont Harnois, Rachel Harris, Karina Iraola, Audray Julien, Audrée Juteau, Camille Lacelle-Wilsey, Catherine Lafleur, Patrick Lamothe, Brianna Lombardo, Chi Long, Maria Mantia Papathanasiou, Lucy May, Robert Meilleur, Julien Mercille, Émilie Morin, Camille Mougenot, Gabriel Painchaud, Susan Paulson, Nickle Peace-Williams, Sébastien Provencher, Thibault Rajaofetra, Jerimy Rivera, Simon Renaud, Marine Rixhon, Geneviève Robitaille, Anne-Flore de Rochambeau, Sovann Rochon-Prom Tep, Elie-Anne Ross, Cara Roy, Olivier Rousseau, Camille Trudel-Vigeant, Silvia Sanchez, Marie-Philippe Santerre, Jessica Serli, Stefania Skoryna, Victor Sono, Melina Stinson, Zoe Vos, Paco Ziel
Production Director Assistant
Chloé Ekker
Technical Director
Olivier Chopinet + Gabriel Duquette
Hardware Design
Francis Vaillancourt-Martin
Sound Engineer
Frédéric Auger
Photography
Denis Martin, Trung Dung Nguyen
Video recording
Robin Pineda
Technicians
Pierre-Antoine Poirier Guay, Arthur Champagne, Marie-Frédérique Gravel
Trainees
Madelyne Johnston, Sarah Gagné et Isabelle Paquette
Administration
Sylvie Lavoie
Management support
Machinerie des arts
Development
Diane Boucher
Co-production + Co-diffusion
Agora de la danse, Festival Transamériques 2019
Co-presented by
Partenariat du Quartier des spectacles
Creative residencies
Quai 5160, Église Ste-Arsène
Thanks
Espace Libre, Nouveau Théâtre Expérimental, Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal
support
Developed with the support of “Nouveau Chapitre”, Canada Council for the Arts
RESTAGING TEAM
Choreographic Advisor
Sara Hanley
Technical Director
Samuel Thériault
Artistic Coordinator
Sabrina Fraternali
Production Director
Charlotte Ménard
A living sculpture takes shape with 60 dancers, each facing an amplified light table, and guided live by Martin Messier. At the heart of this human wave that passes through and encompasses the audience, each performer follows the artist's instructions, as if carried by an inner voice, oscillating between obedience and free will. Dressed in black, the performers merge into a pulsating collective body, swelling, shrinking, advancing or collapsing, embodying the power and malleability of the social body.
In this vast choreographic device, the dancers hold a stone, symbolizing raw material and original nature. Their simple, repetitive gestures — rubbing, throwing, catching — evoke both a return to our roots and a harbinger of humanity's future struggles. In a space saturated with technology, this visceral, prophetic performance returns us to the timeless power of nature and the weight of our collective heritage.
Photo credit: ©Bernard Brault [1], ©Trung Dung Nguyen [2-3], ©Denis Martin [4-7]
PREMIEREJune 2019, Festival TransAmériques, Place des Festivals, Montreal
2020 – 2023 16 performances