Les Anarchives de la danse (2016)

Gallery Performance for 4 to 6 dancers

Les Anarchives de la danse are a series of workshops where audiences are invited to create fictional archives in the form of an image collage. Dancers then use these collages as a basis for a performed choreography.  

Les Anarchives propose dance without limits, an endless dance. In this research, an extensive collage workshop, performers and audience create a memory choreography using dance archives: bodies captured in photographs, bodies in stasis, consciously stored. In this exercise, important figures of the history of dance collide in a disorderly, disproportionate and anachronistic manner. From this collision result new documents which, in turn, create new and remarkable memories. The anarchy potential of these archives is brought in full light: no historical figure remains untouched; no temporal hierarchy or aesthetic is maintained. Thus liberated, bodies detach from the set or defy the laws of gravity. The collages become scores for new life-tableaux which reinterpret the history of dance at the crossroad between homage and outrage. Audiences are invited to participate in this college workshop in an ongoing manner. The Anarchives team tries to physically perform the collages as they are created.

Credits

Creation | Catherine Lavoie-Marcus
Québecois Team | Laurence Dufour, Audrée Juteau, Marie Claire Forté, Brice Noeser, Georges-Nicolas Tremblay, Catherine Lavoie-Marcus, Émilie Morin, Andrew Turner,  
Sound Design | Michel F. Côté
Archival research and orchestration of materials | Gabrielle Larocque
French Team | Calixto Neto, Julie Gouju, Catherine Lavoie-Marcus, Bruno Freire

prEsentations

2018 | Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, QC
2016 | Fonderie Darling, Montréal, QC
2016 | Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, QC

financial support

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec