The Échos contemporains series features third-year performers from l’École de danse contemporaine de Montréal with an excerpt from Frontera by Dana Gingras. The first-year cohort, in their first performance as part of the training program, will present a work from Lucie Grégoire’s repertoire.

PROGRAM

• Frontera by Dana Gingras (excerpt)
Frontera (border, frontier): a real or imaginary dividing line; the extreme limit of understanding in a particular area.
In an era of aggressive nationalism and corporate mass surveillance, the human body has never been rendered so visible, subject to increasingly invasive forms of industrial-scale oversight and processing.
Borders are boundaries, but they’re also processes, liminal spaces where despair, desire and neoliberal economic imperatives meet the obscure(d) operations of power. Surveillance technologies represent an advancing frontier of knowledge and control, monitoring movement, defining identities and gathering data. Increasingly, the border moves with the body, and seeks to organize and orchestrate its passage through the world.
Featuring original music by Fly Pan Am and field recordings by Godspeed’s Dave Bryant, Frontera’s dancers navigate spaces of inclusion and exclusion; their bodies mapped in high resolution, their destinies unresolved.

• Chorus by Lucie Grégoire
Chorus is a large-group adaptation of the Erinyes solo choreographed and performed by Lucie Grégoire in 2005. Originally created in collaboration with electroacoustic music composer Robert Normandeau, this deeply rooted dance reveals the passage of beings through terrestrial and cosmic forces.

PROGRAM BOOK (FRENCH VERSION)

***Warning: This show features stroboscopic effects.***

Creative Team
• Artistic & Program Direction: Lisa Davies
• Production Manager: Alice Renucci
• Creation and performance advisor: Isabelle Poirier, Emmanuelle Bourassa-Beaudoin
• Lighting design: Stéphane Ménigot
• Costume design: Jonathan Saucier, Didier Sénécal
• Third year dancers: Clara Biernacki, Iban Bourgoin, Oly Dion, Ludovic Germain-Thivierge, Ezra Guerrier, Alice Larrière, Michelle Lucero Moris, Kate Manns, Jane Millette, Apolline Saulnier, Hortense Sierka, Clara Truong, Clara Urquhart
• First year dancers: Niko Alevizakis, Simon Armeni-Crowe, Simone Beck-Haviernick, Marie-Laure Bonneau, Agathe Bouydron, Colette Buttet, Marcela Calandria, Maude Carbonneau, Cloe Comstock, Samuel Duvall, Julia Gauthier, Maëlys Hardy, Julia Henry, Justine Heude, Oleksiy Kioresku, Vincent Lacasse, Béatrice Mathieu, Inès Olivieri, Nora Paquet, Méliane Perreault, Eufémia Pongitore, Renaud Tremblay

Box-Office

Presentation Partner

Don’t miss the show Danses d’hiver featuring second-year dancers and Fly.

Photo: Maxime Côté | Dancers: 3rd year students