Schizes sur le sundae (2013)

Stage Performance for 3 dancers - 50 minutes

Modify the material. Sunday at Disney. Over-the-top parfait licked ice ball coulis Kool-Aid lacto-lime. Fun in the afternoon. Desire desiring to play a dose of oneself. Banana bonus licked one after another.

Then, time for schizes. Heads bumping. Split brain. Out of stock. Possession is delayed. Ouija is mashed up, Houdini tied up. We move forward, with helmets.

Schizes on the sundae. Words bumping, mouth appetizer. Three body-tapa s: blasé monks, stuttering cannibals, his wife, among others.

They agree to say it. Only words are solid. But, maybe…

P.S. : it might in fact be a dance performance.

Creative Process

The process involves a few impossibilities : to create a choreography of words, to use speach as movement, gathering a group of people inside one body. Finding a place beyond the sundae (the total pleasure experience, if you will). To be buried alive while laughing.

Using original audio devices, we seek to reshape and spatialize language, the have characters appear and disappear inside the bodies via voice irruptions and sound shiftings. We are attempting to render audible and tangible that which speaks inside” of us, that which haunts the silence, that which, before the promise of pleasure, is rushing at our doors.

There is no logic other than to see though repetition how a body teaches itself to stop wanting. Or stop wanting to want.

Credits

Choregraphy | Catherine Lavoie-Marcus & Michel F Côtéin collaboration with the performers
Sound design | Michel F Côté in collaboration with Catherine Lavoie-Marcus and the performers
Performers | Kelly Keenan, Lael Stellick, Magali Stoll
Lighting design | Paul Chambers
Costumes | Marie-Christine Quenneville
Sound | Compositions and remixing by Michel F. Côté, collage by DJ Rashad, "Friendly advice to a lot of young men" by Charles Bukowski, Lael Stellick's voice, the voices of a handful of "Lucky Cats", the feet and hands of the performers, a GhostReader voiceover, a few seagulls, two dogs, a tsunami, four fans.
Residencies | Studio 303 and Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce