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Fall 2012

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SOLD OUT OCTOBER 24, 25 AND 26

Marc Boivin / Ana Sokolović & Quatuor Bozzini

October 24-25-26 at 8 p.m.

Meet the choreographer : October 25

©Michael Slobodian
Marc Boivin
©Michael Slobodian
©Donat Boulerice
Ana Sokolović
©Donat Boulerice
©Michael Slobodian
Quatuor Bozzini
©Michael Slobodian

Based on music composed by Ana Sokolović, this new work features the choreographer and dancer Marc Boivin and the Quatuor Bozzini. The musical score in seven movements is a reflection of seven symbolic characters in a commedia dell'arte world. In a single body, Marc Boivin expresses a parallel narrative of these diverse personalities. Like a Russian stacking doll, he goes through them one after another to reach the essence of their sensitivity and their universal dimension in a family portrait that is surprising, to say the least. The audience is plunged into a cascade of sensations that gives rise to vertigo, an irrevocable attraction for the mysteries of the individual and a questioning of our freedom to be. With great attention to detail, Marc Boivin’s unsettling performance, supported by the four musicians onstage, delivers an accomplished exercise in style. Far from conventional codes of theatre, the piece confronts the idea (that if not true is at least plausible) of what we are, of our vulnerable, changing perception of reality. A demanding solo on the perishable truths we depend on, and our multiple personalities and their contradictions

 

 

 

PERFORMANCE FEATURED IN ÉVÉNEMENT SOLOS[S]

“With moving yet bracing effect, he suspends mutations of his moods, withdraws within, liberates his virulence, disintegrates and comes back to us reborn.”

Guylaine Massoutre, Le Devoir, 2009 (about the solo Impact)

“The Quatuor Bozzini is a wonderful ensemble for its assertions about and through contemporary composition … The Quatuor puts a silent, calmly precise, thoughtful and highly intense argumentation against a noisy world.”

Horst Hollmann, Nordwest-Zeitung, 2010

“[Ana Sokolović] is one of the most talented and original artists of her generation. […] Her music is whimsical, full of imagery and, while complex, rings true.”

Isabelle Picard, La Scena Musicale, 2006

www.marcboivin.ca

www.anasokolovic.com

www.quatuorbozzini.ca

Concept and composition
Ana Sokolović

Choreographer and dancer
Marc Boivin

Original music
Commedia dell’arte I et II, Ana Sokolović

Music performed by Quatuor Bozzini
(Mira Benjamin, Isabelle Bozzini, Stéphanie Bozzini, Clemens Merkel)

Consultant, Rehearsal Director
Sophie Corriveau

Lighting
Lucie Bazzo

Costumes
Angelo Barsetti

Set Design
Marc Boivin in collaboration with Lucie Bazzo, Saturnin Goyer and Josiane Saucier

Set construction
Saturnin Goyer and Josiane Saucier

Technical Director
Saturnin Goyer

Administration-Production
Aude Watier, Isabelle Bozzini and Nicolas Godmaire

Produced by Marc Boivin and the Quatuor Bozzini. Co-produced by the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec. This project benefited of creation and production residencies at Agora de la danse, Banff Centre (Performing Arts Residencies Program), Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique.

Marc Boivin / ©Angelo Barsetti
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Marc Boivin / ©Angelo Barsetti