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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




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
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.