September 27. 28. 29. 30 + October 4. 5. 6. 7, 2017 - 8 PM
In LA VIE ATTEND, five performers face the audience, tackling a delicate balancing act. They are teammates, enemies, victors and mourners, instigators and witnesses. All of their visceral and vulnerable contradictions, their pride and their shame, their hope and their fear, are laid out on the stage. Life as a game waiting to be played.
A theatrical work born of an intuitive and intellectual inspiration, seducing on the surface, physical and deceptively playful, LA VIE ATTEND deftly manipulates the deep primal tendencies we often avoid. Creative duo Emily Gualtieri and David Albert-Toth, the co-founders of Parts+Labour_Danse, kick off our Traces-Chorégraphes series with an illusory work, performed by five dancers who will no doubt win you over. It’s anyone’s game.
Choreographers : David Albert-Toth, Emily Gualtieri
Dancer-collaborators : Joe Danny Aurélien, Marc Boivin, Simon-Xavier Lefebvre, Milan Panet-Gigon, Nicolas Patry
Texts : The dancer-collaborators
Music : David Drury
Costumes : Angela Rassenti
Lighting designer : Paul Chambers
Outside eyes : Mélanie Demers, Ginelle Chagnon, Étienne Lepage, Jamie Wright
Creation residencies : Circuit-Est, centre chorégraphique, CCOV [Centre de création O Vertigo]
A Danse-Cité production in collaboration with David Albert-Toth & Emily Gualtieri | Parts+Labour_Danse. With the financial support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts.