Artistic Direction and Choreography : Louise Bédard

Dance : Kate Alton or Annebruce Falconer, Jean-Francois Déziel, Lea Helmstädter, Anne Le Beau, Michael Trent or Ken Roy, Daniel Villeneuve

Set Design : Jonathan Inksetter
Costumes : Denis Lavoie
Make-Up : Angelo Barsetti
Lights : Bruno Rafie
Music : Michel F. Côté and Diane Labrosse
Video : David Fafard
Technical Direction : Simon Deraspe
Rehearsal Direction : Christine Charles

Running time : 75 minutes

A Louise Bédard Danse production

Ce qu'il en reste was created in residence at Usine C (Montréal), the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault (Montréal) and the PACT Zollverein Choreographic Centre (Essen, Germany). Le Groupe Dance Lab (Ottawa) and the Goethe Institute in Montréal also contributed to the work.

Between October 2005 and January 2008, the show was presented 25 times in several cities of Quebec, in Toronto, in Halifax, as well as twice in France.

Ce qu'il en reste is an imposing yet highly entertaining work for six dancers, which marked a return for Louise Bédard to choreographing group pieces. This dance opus formed the second part of the creative cycle entitled Itinéraire multiple in which the choreographer explores the worlds of women artists from other cultures. Ce qu'il en reste is based on the work of the amazing Hannah Höch, an artist renowned for her photomontage and one of the first German Dadaists.

Spread over a period of two years, the creation of Ce qu'il en reste was a result of Louise's encounter with the many dancers she invited to perform research work. The journey was also coloured by residences at Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault, Pact Zollverein Choreographic Centre in Essen and at Usine C. Throughout the process, in the sidelines of her dance, Louise collected images, cut them to pieces and pasted them together. In Höch's footsteps, she created with her own paper collages, an imagery that served as guideline, as choreographic canvas and as a creative tool to be used with her dancers.

Ce qu’il en reste presents a somewhat surrealistic, very audacious theatrical world in which dream and common day alternately run parallel or overlap. Purity of movement and unrestrained gesture change with the galleries of characters to offer a three-dimensional moving collage that oscillates between solitude and synthesis, love and levity, and the relationship with the other and the self.

With the collaboration of multidisciplinary artist Jonathan Inksetter, videographer David Fafard and lighting designer Bruno Rafie, Louise Bédard has created a set formed by immense paper-screen displays that literally split up the space and capture light; on these, the moving figures are projected by video.

Music by Michel F. Côté and Diane Labrosse, which they perform on stage, accompany the dancers. Denis Lavoie’s costumes and Angelo Barsetti’s make-up and photography are also central to the work.


In the media

“A remarkable show (...) the six dancers are absolutely fantastic (...) two musicians on stage, Michel F. Côté and Diane Labrosse, they're absolutely staggering, in perfect osmosis with the dancers (...) It's bliss!”
Isabelle Poulin, Radio-Canada
Montreal, Canada

“Great collage has spawned a work that expresses the infinite promise of the human experience (…) an hour of pure pleasure (…)”
Aline Apostolska, La Presse
Montreal, Canada

“(…) undeniable qualities: an unfettered imagination, the prodigal expressiveness of the dancers (…)”
Frédérique Doyon, Le Devoir
Montreal, Canada

“I greatly enjoyed Louise Bédard’s multilayered collage, above all for the surprises that it held in store.”
François Dufort, Dfdanse-Ici
Montreal, Canada