GYMNOPÉDIES
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Length | 40 min
Created at Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal, June 14, 2013*
A COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD production in coproduction with Les Nuits de Fourvière (Lyon - France), with the support of Carolina Performing Arts (Chapel Hill – United States) and ImPulsTanz (Vienna - Austria).
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Choreography and Artistic Direction | Marie Chouinard
Music | Érik Satie, Gymnopédies no 1, no 2, no 3
Lighting | Alain Lortie
Set design | Guillaume Lord and Marie Chouinard
Costumes | Liz Vandal
Costumes – extra | Marie Chouinard
Musical consultant | Louis Dufort
Sound environment | Jesse Leveillé
*Dancers for the world premiere | Paige Culley, Valeria Galluccio, Leon Kupferschmid, Lucy M. May, Mariusz Ostrowski, Sacha Ouellette-Deguire, Carol Prieur, Gérard Reyes, Dorotea Saykaly, James Viveiros, Megan Walbaum
press excerpts
« A haunted beauty.[…] “Capture your imagination, challenge you to think BIG, and leave you seeing the world in an entirely new way.” Chouinard’s program did just that. Her work was innovative and hypnotic in a way I had never seen. » Adrienne Totino, Pittsburgh Dance Examiner, 2013
« Gymnopédies is sensuous and languorous. […] In this work Chouinard has achieved what only the best artists can: she travels to the very depths of our collective psyche, and brings what she finds there out into the open for all to see. » Nancy Berman, Bachtrack, 2013