We live on rue Queen in the Cité Multimédia. We throw eggs at the mafia. At night, we are awakened by the engines of  motorcycles. Two hundred birds, real birds, nest in front of our windows. Drones survey the condos, searching for dismal food. Our meetings are parasitized by feedback demons. We know a secret spot, fish blood and techno-shamanism—all of the financing ends up in our pockets. We’ve lived in this neighbourhood for ten years. 

Come and see: sound art, literature, dance.

PARTICIPANTS

TRIO FLUO À 4

(Marie-Ève Carrière, Marie-Eve Quilicot, Marilyn St-Sauveur et Anne Thériault)

1990. We dream of ballet jazz. We are 10 years old.

2000. Time passes. We develop a professional practice in the performing arts.

2010. We perform in places all over the world.

2020. We dust off a choreography from an end of year dance recital. We are nearing our forties.

This evening, we will be presenting a revived ballet jazz performance accompanied by a delicious musical medley. With our present bodies of women: mothers and artists. An homage to this aesthetic that, at one time, gave us the desire to dance…

Choreography by the École de Ballet Repentigny, year 1990

Music by Jeannine Thibault, Golden Pan Flute and other cassette tapes

MATHIEU LÉROUX AND NICOLAS DION BUTEAU 

Author, actor, director and playwright consultant, Mathieu Leroux is a graduate of the École supérieure de théâtre de l'UQAM. He has founded and co-directed two theatre companies; Putto Machine and Les Néos. He is the creator of a solo show (La naissance de Superman), a group piece (Scrap, presented at Espace Libre a few seasons ago), and a choreographic duo (Bones & Wires, presented at Tangente in May). In dance, he works assiduously alongside Victor Quijada, Helen Simard, Alexandra Spicey Landé and Alexandre Morin. Mathieu Leroux holds a master's degree in French literature from UdeM. He is the author of several publications, including Dans la cage, his first novel published by Héliotrope (2013), and the essay on self-performance, Quelque chose en moi choisit le coup de poing (La Mèche, 2016). He is the literary director of the theater collection at L'instant même. And his new novel, Avec un poignard, will be published by Héliotrope on September 16. 

Nicolas Dion is a sound artist and musician (sound installations, performances, recordings and electronic music), who is involved in several collaborations including the sound art project with Anne-F. Jacques (formerly named Minibloc), the electronic music trio Citofono (formerly named intercom) and various collectives. In addition, he generates several sounds under his own name (formerly named Darcin).

PASCALE TRUDEL, MAUDE VEILLEUX AND VÉRONIQUE PASCAL 

Pascale Trudel is an independent audio and new media artist living in Montreal. Her most recent improvisations are here: https://soundcloud.com/pascaletrudel / 

Maude Veilleux is a poet and performer. 

Véronique Pascal has been working in the theater world for 15 years, mainly as an actress, but also as a director, author and mediator. When she is not working, she loves evenings with friends, nature walks and little kittens.