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Take control of the parameters of movement and sound for two faces, a man's and a woman's, and become the author of your own visual and sound work with one of the very first art applications.

CANTIQUE invites you to create an unusual choreographic dialogue. Use the icons to alter the faces and voices in real time, and mastermind an original choreography in which music, facial expressions, breath and dancing tongue come together to create a unique duet.

Designor and Director | Marie Chouinard

Performers | Benoît Lachambre and Carol Prieur

Music | Louis Dufort

Adaptation and application programming | Kokomo

Immersive installation

Created at Société des arts technologiques (SAT), June 4, 2013

Length | Continous

A co-production of Compagnie Marie Chouinard and Société des arts technologiques (SAT) with support of the Conseil des arts des Montréal

Design and production | Marie Chouinard and Luc Courchesne

Music and sound spatialization | Louis Dufort

Dancers | Lucy M. May and Manuel Roque

Voices | Lucy M. May and Sacha Ouellette-Deguire

Voice direction | Marie Chouinard

Visual programming | Michal Seta, Emmanuel Durand, Mike Wozniewski

Construction of recording device | Luc Courchesne and Stéphane Lafortune

Camera | Dominic St-Amant

Video editing | Olivier Rhéaume

Installation

Created at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada, November 6, 2011

Marie Chouinard has been taking photos based on her dance works since 1995.

"In the four photographs for Paradisi Gloria, a latin term conjuring the word bud, the dancers wear the cardboard masks used in the choreography of THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE). The kōgō reminds me of a genital bud - the delicate tuberosity that will eventually determine the gender of the fetus."

- Marie Chouinard

Creation | Marie Chouinard

Music | Louis Dufort, THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE)

Dancers on the photos inspired by the dance work THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE) | Lucie Mongrain, Carol Prieur, Dorotea Saykaly, James Viveiros

videos Installation

Created at Galerie Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, January 17 to March 7, 2009

A COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD production

Design and direction |  Marie Chouinard and Luc Courchesne

Performers | Carol Prieur and Mark Eden-Towle

videos sculpture
Created at Galerie Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, January 17 to March 7, 2009

A COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD production

Design and direction | Marie Chouinard and Luc Courchesne

Performers | Carol Prieur and Mark Eden-Towle

Participative Installation

Created at Monaco Dance Forum, Monaco, December 15, 2004

An easy to use participative installation which provides two players the opportunity to create an event of extraordinary dramatic and musical effectiveness whose variations are almost endless.

On a large screen, a man’s and woman’s faces face each other in profile. Both characters are connected to a touch screen, which functions as a mixing board.

The two touch screens provide the two players with an image and sound bank. The rules are simple but powerful. Each of the two players is assigned one of the characters of the film. Simply by activating one of the icons with a touch of the finger, the character’s voice and face are immediately transformed.

Since the players are working the screens simultaneously, a dialogue-cantata is immediately created between the characters on the large screen. They can pass from screams to whispers, from the tongue leaving the mouth and dancing to onomatopoeia.

The device for editing in real time proceeds by a granular synthesis and by loops. In this way, micro gestural and sound events are revealed, casting the excitement and rhythms of communication in a new light. We are in the presence of the birth of language… and its critique.

A Compagnie Marie Chouinard and Marie Chouinard production with the financial support of La Fondation Daniel Langlois pour les arts, les sciences et la technologie, Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts de Montréal and ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival World premiere at the Monaco Dance Forum, 2004

Author and Director | Marie Chouinard

Composer and Programmer | Louis Dufort

Additional programming | Nick Bugayev

Performers | Benoît Lachambre and Carol Prieur