Call for spectators:
Live audio description of Nuit by Jean-Pierre Perreault for blind and partially sighted people.
March 21, 2025: Danse-Cité and Danse Danse present Nuit by Jean-Pierre Perreault with live audio description for the blind and partially sighted.
Friday, March 21, 2025 , 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm
At Théâtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts
Adapted transport address: 1600, rue Saint-Urbain, Montreal, H2X 0S1
Live audio description by Caroline Charbonneau and Emmalie Ruest
Price: $20. Free for accompanying person
Reservations by calling Maud at 514 525-3595 or by e-mail :
communication@danse-cite.org
Created two years after his acclaimed Joe, Nuit is one of Jean-Pierre Perreault's landmark works. Beautifully danced by an outstanding cast, this impetuous work opens a window on the choreographer's immense legacy.
Recreated in its original form on the initiative of Laurence Lemieux, who danced it in 2002, and her Compagnie de la Citadelle, Nuit expresses a vulnerability as unsettling as it is subterranean. A rare work of overwhelming beauty.
The show will be audio-described live by Caroline Charbonneau and Emmalie Ruest.
Further information: https://www.dansedanse.ca/fr/spectacles/compagnie-de-la-citadelle-nuit-jean-pierre-perreault
6:30 p.m. — Public welcome and technological support
7:15pm — Workshop/tactile tour
8:00 pm — Show with audio description
9:30 pm — Meet the artists
10:00 pm — Event ends
Participants need a smartphone and a pair of headphones. Danse-Cité can provide smartphones for those who don't have one. Before you come, download the Sennheiser MobileConnect application: https://danse-cite.org/accessibilite/technology
Audiodescription is made possible by the support of indispensable partners: TD | Promesse d’Agir, Fondation Mirella et Lino Saputo, CDPQ, Fondation Sandra et Alain Bouchard, Fondation Sibylla Hesse, The Whitearn Foundation, Fondation Cypihot Ouellette, Fonds Militaire pour les Enfants Aveugles
Maud Mazo-Rothenbühler — Danse-Cité
Development and Communications Manager
communication@danse-cite.org — 514 525-3595
Since 1982, Danse-Cité has contributed to the evolution of dance practices and contemporary creation by supporting artists in research, creation, production and/or dissemination. Since 2021, Danse-Cité has been developing a dance audiodescription pole, a practice previously non-existent in Montreal, to offer French-speaking blind and semi-vision-impaired audiences adapted access to choreographic performances. https://danse-cite.org/accessibilite/about
Danse Danse is a presenter associated with Place des Arts, bringing the best in dance from here and abroad to the heart of the Quartier des spectacles. A non-profit organization, Danse Danse presents a program of some 15 shows per season at Théâtre Maisonneuve, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier and Cinquième Salle, proudly contributing to Montreal's international reputation as a metropolis of movement. https://www.dansedanse.ca/fr/a-propos-de-danse-danse