ON / OFF is a dance work designed for teenagers and adults where five dancers perform on an unusual and wondrous machine: an oversized treadmill. On this rolling and confined surface, movement is restrained and ecstatic, exhilarated and acrobatic. At times in group or alone, the performers address the themes of identity, self-fulfillment, determination, coexistence, freedom, exhaustion and the unending feelings and sensations that makeup the complexity of life. The treadmill is a meeting place where the characters seek to understand their place in the world. Sometimes at its mercy, sometimes in control of this intriguing, unpredictable and mobilizing machine, the dancers play with time. They suspend actions in space in order to dig out the details of gestures, questions and interactions. The machine becomes a metaphor for the passage from childhood to adulthood. It is the path that we choose to travel and the life that we learn to tame.
4 to 5 performers
CREDITS
Choreography
Jacques Poulin-Denis
Performers
Charles Brécard, Marie-Reine Kabasha, Jean-Benoit Labrecque, Gabriel-Antoine Roy, Silvia Sanchez (original cast) / Felix Cossette, Nolwenn Duhaut (alternative cast)
Dramaturgy
Sarah Berthiaume
Costumes and set
Marilène Bastien
Lighting
Claire Seyller
Music
Klimaxxx
Rehearsal director
Sophie Breton
Technical direction
Jean-Marie Gardien et Julien Boisvert (assistant)
Production manager
Geneviève Voyzelle
Outreach
Simon-Xavier Lefèbvre
Choreographic contribution
Audrey Bergeron, Jossua Collin, Maika Giasson, Claudine Hébert, François Richard, Émilie Wilson
Partners
The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Arts Council, the Montreal Arts Council, Le Cube–Le Clou, La Maison Théâtre, Agora de la danse, la Place des Arts, Petit Théâtre de Sherbrooke, RTA–Parcours Cré’ados, Culture3R and the Quai 5160.
4 to 5 performers
CREDITS
Choreography
Jacques Poulin-Denis
Performers
Charles Brécard, Marie-Reine Kabasha, Jean-Benoit Labrecque, Gabriel-Antoine Roy, Silvia Sanchez (original cast) / Felix Cossette, Nolwenn Duhaut (alternative cast)
Dramaturgy
Sarah Berthiaume
Costumes and set
Marilène Bastien
Lighting
Claire Seyller
Music
Klimaxxx
Rehearsal director
Sophie Breton
Technical direction
Jean-Marie Gardien et Julien Boisvert (assistant)
Production manager
Geneviève Voyzelle
Outreach
Simon-Xavier Lefèbvre
Choreographic contribution
Audrey Bergeron, Jossua Collin, Maika Giasson, Claudine Hébert, François Richard, Émilie Wilson