La Goddam Voie Lactée – Mélanie Demers
We move forward through the darkness. We do our best to free ourselves from the clutches of nothingness, the void, the block of marble which would overwhelm us if we didn’t escape from it. In some sense, we become someone. Not just anyone. Just like a pack, we put the wisest one of us out in front. When she flags, another comes forward to face the headwinds. We do it together. We’re charting a course through the snow, through the mud, through the shit. We’re not goddesses, not for the life of us, but all the same we walk with our feet planted firmly on the Milky Way. We were splashed by this mythological puddle of milk. We inherited this gangrene. No longer is it just the Mississippi that is Goddam but the whole damn galaxy. La Goddam Voie Lactée’s reaction to the harshness and asperity of the world is to offer up a pagan mass. A celebration in the form of a challenge.
Ressac – Véronique Giasson
Ressac is born of a cyclical movement: advancing, yielding, returning. The power of the group becomes matter in perpetual turmoil—a flow of raw energy where twenty-one bodies come together, oppose each other, and break apart.
Marcher dans les cendres – Alan Lake
In a ravaged but fertile landscape, Marcher dans les cendres brings forth the strength to rise again. Each performer traverses their own personal hell; what burns, what remains, what is reborn. Carried by the group’s momentum, they move forward, their skin still marked by fire, toward a horizon of light and peace. The piece celebrates resilience and the journey, the act of being together despite fragility. Through raw and sensitive physicality, the bodies lean on each other, support each other, abandon themselves, affirming both their individuality and their interconnectedness. A dance of passage and transformation, where movement becomes connection and renewal.
Enter Woven – Victor Quijada
Enter Woven examines the push and pull of the environment we live in. It brings into focus the causal effect of our interconnected relationships. In this piece, the atmosphere is palpable; limbs reach out to cut and carve through the ether. Individuals join and compress against each other. Their bodies form architectures. These structures shift, and individuals shift over, under, and through one another. We watch as their stories intertwine, detach, reconnect, and transform.
