Le Radeau

Here, we are all misfits: in our element yet out of place, adrift amidst the bouncy waves. Don’t be swallowed by the sea of possibilities! We must come together to imagine the city of our dreams. As we hurl our amazing (strange!) bodies and shapes into new rhythms, we’ll find a groove together. Smashing and dancing and pouncing with feeling, through our Will and our Power we’ll build a niche for the Earthlings.

Created in collaboration with students from Montréal and Reykjavik, Earthling is an interactive dance journey for all ages features fantastic wearable sculptures that transform the body to find a playful kinesthetic empathy for all Earthlings: human, plant, fungal, mineral, and mystical. At the heart of this work lie the challenges of body image that begin at a young age. This hybrid workshop-show offers audience members a unique performance experience that encourages autonomy within togetherness to build community through dance.

Credits

• Creation Nate Yaffe & Zuzu Knew
• Artistic direction Nate Yaffe
• Visual direction Zuzu Knew
• Choreography Nate Yaffe in collaboration with the performers and students l’école Félix-Leclerc in Pointe-aux-Trembles, l’école des Berges-de-Lachine in Lachine, l’école Atelier in Ahuntsic
• Performance Angie Cheng, Pénélope Gromko, Lauren Semeschuk, Nate Yaffe
• Dramaturge Georges-Nicolas Tremblay
• Costumes Zuzu Knew
• Composition, sound design Patrick Conan
• Lighting design Paul Chambers
• Technical direction Élianne Desilets-Dubé
• Set Nate Yaffe, Zuzu Knew
• Costume assistant Lari Jalbert
• Guest musicians Páll Guðmundsson de l’école Reykjavik Hjalli, Guðbjörg Zelda Marvinsdóttir, Katla Líf Louisdóttir, Salvör Árnadóttir, Svava Arnarsdóttir, Árni Stefán Bergmann, Hrafnkell Máni Aðalsteinsson, Einar Helgi Dórusson
• Music and choreography created with the collaboration of students from the Reykjavik Hjalli School.
• Résidences de création Maison de la culture Pointe-aux-Trembles, L’Entrepôt de Lachine, L’Espace le vrai monde?, In House // Outer Space, Dansverkstæðið
• Production Le Radeau

Presentations

• 2022, Festival Furies, Marsoui, QC
• 2022, Maison de la culture Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montréal (cancelled Covid)
• 2021, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal, QC
• 2021, Théâtre du Grand Saut, Montréal, QC
• 2021, Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montréal, QC
• 2020, Conseil des arts de Montréal en tournée (cancelled Covid)
• 2019, Le Wilder (Tangente), Montréal, QC
• 2019, École Face, Montréal, QC
• 2019, Off Parcours danse, Montréal, QC

Financial support

• Canada Council for the Arts
• Conseil des arts de Montréal
• Programme Médiations culturelles MTL