Artistic Direction and Choreography : Louise Bédard
Dance : Tom Casey, Jean-François Déziel, Marie-Claire Forté, Victoria May, Ken Roy et Sarah Williams
Music : Diane Labrosse
Costumes and Make-Up : Angelo Barsetti
Lights : Bruno Rafie
Video : David Fafard
Set Design : Geneviève Lizotte
Rehearsal Direction : Christine Charles
Running Time : 77 minutes
A Louise Bedard Danse production
Created in 2008, this last production of Louise Bédard Danse was presented in Usine C on nine occasions between September 25th and October 5th.
In March, 2009, three representations were given during the Vancouver International Dance Festival.
In cooperation with the Conseil des Arts de Montreal on tour, Enfin vous zestes was played in many theater of the big metropolitan region:
August 13, 2009 - Théâtre de Verdure in Park Lafontaine
November 14, 2009 - Salle Désilets in Cégep Marie-Victorin
Novembre 20, 2009 - Maison culturelle et communautaire de Montréal-Nord
November 25, 2009 - Maison de la culture Plateau Mont-Royal
November 27, 2009 - Mirella and Lino Saputo Theater
February 9, 2010 - Théâtre Outremont
February 18, 2010 - Maison de la culture Frontenac
Louise Bédard Danse's latest creation
Following the successful performances of Ce qu’il en reste at Usine C in October 2005 and her finalist nomination for the Montreal Arts Council Grand Prize in dance, Louise Bédard is back with a new creation. In her world of superimposed layers, inspired by painting, nothing is really exactly as it appears. The movement of bodies hides as much as it reveals and the dancing figures are in constant interplay with their portions of shadow and light. A veteran choreographer with an unbridled imagination, Louise Bédard creates worlds where the tragic exists alongside comic and hilarious undertones. All with freshness and surprise...
Context
Human nature’s mystery is enormous. You can disguise or undress it, but there are always things that can’t be hidden and which are never revealed.
With this new dance creation, Louise Bédard guides us through the meanders of our own existence, between riverbanks that mark our life paths. Somewhere between the dissimulation and revelation of the intimate facets of people’s lives.
In a number of her creations over the last several years, Louise Bédard has derived her inspiration from the lives of visual artistes from different cultures. For example, her duet Elles (2002) was inspired by the work of the Italian-Mexican photographer Tina Modotti, and her sextet Ce qu’il en reste (2005) by the German collagist Hannah Höch. These two productions were accompanied by parallel exhibitions, organized by the company, presenting works by both Modotti and Hôch. Though these artists provided the starting point for the creations, the thematic undercurrent always remained human beings, their relationships with others, society, and nature itself.
For her new creation, Bédard has taken the work of the Canadian painter of Hungarian origins, Marianna Gartner, as her launching point. Bédard first discovered her tableaux in “The Book of Images” by Alberto Manguel and was taken by the hyper-realistic portraits Gartner created from archival photos. At first, her characters appear normal, even conventional, but the viewer notices details that reveal another world and more complex layering. Progressively the characters show their singular presence in the midst of a network of their own contradictions.
Following the successful Ce qu’il en reste, Louise Bédard rubs once again on the veneer that covers human relations. To create the tableau of this world where things are not really what you see, the chorographer is joined by an incomparable group of collaborators. Diane Labrosse will create the sound score live on stage; Angelo Barsetti, costumes and make-up; David Fafard, live video mix; Bruno Rafie, lighting; and Geneviève Lizotte, stage set. Together, they will bring to the stage these worlds that are sometimes tragic, often humorous or even laughable, but always new and astounding.