Sans collier, Physiographie d'existence

Sans collier, Physiographie d’existences is the odyssey of a woman who allows herself to celebrate many faces reaching back to the very edges of her destiny.

Choreographer and dancer Louise Bédard, by capturing her own image through a series of self-portraits created during the pandemic, built a geography of real and fictitious existences within the stillness of the photographic frame. Amassing a corpus of images, she then sought to breathe life into these portraits of women, revealed through her own flesh, each carrying obstacles, transformations, and possibilities of becoming. Each of these women grants the artist the balance and counterbalance of immobile instants, reclaiming a visibility so often denied them.

It is through the body and gaze of a woman of a certain age that these figures leave their traces. By embodying these presences—animated by the gestures and words of author Clarice Lispector—this solitary woman, moved by the present moment, ventures into the physiography of existences.

With Sans collier, Physiographie d’existences, Louise Bédard offers three distinct programs, in which 17 solos are brought together, presented sometimes live and at other times through video projections. Portraying imagined women in multiple ways, this vibrant and celebratory dance evokes the quintessence of an artist both lucid and tirelessly at work.