PAPILLON présenté par/presented by Bouge d’ici

We All Fall Down Interdisciplinary Creations

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Billets / Tickets: https://montrealfringe.online.red61.ca/event/2030:188/

What can we expect from the unexpected? What can we recognize in the chaotic, in a world governed by unpredictability?

We All Fall Down Interdisciplinary Creations (WAFD) is proud to bring you choreographer Helen Simard’s PAPILLON. Drawing on the aesthetics of street and contemporary dance, PAPILLON juxtaposes three solos and a live experimental soundtrack in a complex trio that explores the delicate balance between order and disorder.

For 50 minutes, three dancers weave in and out of sync through a complex choreographic partition, supported by a live, hypnotic musical soundtrack that blends the sounds and rhythms of jazz, hip-hop and drum’n’bass. Inspired by chaos theory and mathematical equations, PAPILLON is a raw, engulfing reflection on loneliness and togetherness, singularity and similarity, metamorphosis and above all, the importance of human connection.

After countless cancellations and adaptations due to the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, PAPILLON is finally ready to emerge transformed from its cocoon and meet Montreal audiences.

“I am shocked into awe by this team who performed their show for an audience of atoms and light waves and energy, which cannot be destroyed but only changed. I am inched forward into movement, like an electron. Like a butterfly.”
—Tara McGowan-Ross, Broadway World

WATCH THE TEASER https://vimeo.com/736219769

CHOREOGRAPHY
Helen Simard

PERFORMERS
Nindy Banks
Mecdy Jean-Pierre
Victoria Mackenzie
Rémy Saminadin
Roger White
Ted Yates

REHEARSAL DIRECTION
Stephanie Fromentin
Kaia McAuliffe

DRAMATURGE
Mathieu Leroux

LIGHTING DESIGN / TECHNICAL DIRECTION
Hannah Kirby

ARTISTIC CONSULTANTS
Alexandra Landé
Sophie Corriveau

CO-PRODUCTION
We All Fall Down
Danse-Cité

FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Canada Council for the Arts
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Conseil des arts de Montréal

HORAIRE / SCHEDULE

  • Jeudi 22 Septembre 2022 / 20:00
  • Vendredi 23 Septembre 2022 / 20:00
  • Samedi 24 Septembre 2022 / 20:00

50 minutes
Pas de retardataires / No latecomers

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