840, Cherrier Street Montreal
Sherbrooke Metro Station
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Winter / Spring 2012
Orlando
TRIAL & EROS / Deborah Dunn
March 14-15-16 at 8 PM and March 17 at 4 PM
Meet the choreographer : March 15
Deborah Dunn's latest creation is an audacious invitation to revisit the world of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando. In this brilliant group piece, the fascinating androgynous character Orlando is at the center of the six dancer's performances. In the frantic pursuit of his dream of becoming a poet, the character travels through the eras, transforming himself. For Deborah Dunn, the novel becomes a pretext to sweep along five centuries, combining sensual music and satirical humour with lavish costumes. By way of an ingenious mix of genres and eras in which she displays her acute sense of mise-en-scène, the choreographer evokes a notion of the infinite, the difficulty of creating and finding true love. Somewhere between biography and fantasy tale, Orlando is an odyssey of mad poetry.
“With intelligence, precision and finesse, Dunn is an absolutely stunning choreographer, constructing works of dance/theatre that transport the audience members into surreal worlds, inhabited by strange and touching beings."
Stéphanie Brody, La Presse
“Deborah Dunn is definitely inclined towards finely chiselled theatricality and humour, as close to acting as it is to pantomime, as close to dance as it is to film.”
Andrée Martin, Le Devoir
Choreography
Deborah Dunn
Performers
Natalie Zoey Gauld, Audrée Juteau, Sara Hanley, Alexandre Parenteau, Nicolas Patry, Nancy Rivest
Music
Diane Labrosse
Lighting design
jpt
Costumes
Deborah Dunn, Josée Gagnon
