With Chorale a work for ten dancers, Marie Chouinard recalls that the words choreography and chorale share the same etymology in Greek. In this work, she creates a festive universe around the notion of sexuality and divinity. Here, the corporeal and vocal architecture is pushed to extremes and voice and movement have common cause. Out of these singular bodies, fashioned by irresistible pulsations that stretch them and throw them out of kilter, steal breathless, chanting, gurgling, howling and ululating voices.

During this thoughtful series of apotheoses, beings meet on the side of the formless or mis-shapen and the strange or troubling, of grace or spoliation and the primitive or urbane, amusing themselves with unusual and yet strangely familiar games. Alone, in duets, or as a group, they call out to the other, respond to it, and drink deeply at its source in an immediate series of situations that are intense, tender, humorous and profoundly human in turn.

Ballet in one act

Length | 45 min

Created at RED Reggio Emilia Danza, Italy, June 19, 2003*

A Compagnie Marie Chouinard production, co-produced with ImPulsTanz-Vienna International Festival (Austria), National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris) and RED Reggio Emilia Danza (Italy)