A MYTH ON THE ACT OF CREATION

Bodies propelled by subterranean forces surging through them in a sinister, surreal universe, a world where the grotesque vies with Eros. Orpheus and Eurydice is a powerful, excessive work imbued with undulations of humour. Fascinated by the body and its most intimate, secret manifestations, choreographer Marie Chouinard has created an exploratory dance that plunges into a dissoluteness and excess portrayed by dancers whose commitment is total.

This piece exposes the visceral sources of creation. Breaths, shouts, vowels and consonants are pulled out from the organic like an infra tongue extirpated from the inmost depths of the body.

It features not a single Eurydice or Orpheus but several, multiple in number and in gender. Moving between harmony and heartbreak, comedy and cruelty, the vital pulsations of the living are apparent in

bodies possessed.

By Michèle Febvre for Festival TransAmériques (Montreal, Canada)

Ballet in one act

Length | 66 minutes

Created at the Equilibrio Festival, Rome, Italy, on February 6, 2008*

A COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD production in co-production with the Canada Dance Festival (Ottawa), Carolina Performing Arts (Chapel Hill), Festival TransAmériques (Montreal), Fondazione Musica per Roma (Roma), the Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), Movimentos Festwochender Autostadt (Wolfsburg), the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Place des Arts (Montreal), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), with the support of ImPulstanz (Vienna)