2024
Les limites infinies de la peau
Installation-performance
Concept and Choreography
Caroline Laurin-Beaucage
Performers
Léonie Bélanger et
Simon Renaud
Video (projections)
Robin Pineda Gould
Music
Jean Gaudreau /
Larsen Lupin
Creation Collaborator
Ginelle Chagnon
Technical Director and Stage Manager
Samuel Thériault, assisté de Justin Houde et Catherine Ste-Marie
Rehearsal
Sara Hanley
Costumes
Dave St-Pierre
Production Management
Maurice-G. Du Berger
Scenographer
GAUFAB
Set Design Consultant
Odile Gamache
Co-production
Agora de la danse
Executive producer
Lorganisme
Support (installation version)
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Using vivariums—transparent tanks on the stage—two dancers reveal their naked forms, exposing both an intimacy we often keep to ourselves and one we are desperate to share. Music, light, and movement converge, revealing a microcosm. In a literal and figurative sense, the intention behind the piece is to confine the subjects, and to strip away their natural habitat, habits, and preconceived relationships in a physical environment as unique as it is demanding. The two bodies sway gently and grow restless in the transparency of the vessels soon to become their homes. What connections can be established between ourselves, others, and our environment? Can our bodies become porous vectors that dissolve the boundaries of our flesh?
This performative installation grants the audience the freedom to wander through the space between the tanks where the performers are immersed, and the video projections by Robin Pineda Gould, enhancing the immersive dimension of the artwork and opening up new perspectives on moving bodies.
Photo credit: ©Denis Martin
Duration: 120 minutes