Confidences d’un corps (The Telling Body)
(2008) Choregraphed and interpreted by Pierre-Paul Savoie (Montreal)
"And it is not yet enough to have memories. You must be able to forget them [...] and you must have the immense patience to wait until they return. [...] Only when they have changed into our very blood, into glance and gesture, and are nameless, no longer to be distinguished from ourselves – only then can it happen that in some very rare hour the first word of a poem arises in their midst and goes forth from them."
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rainer Maria Rilke
Introduction
Starting point of Diasporama, Confidences d’un corps (The Telling Body) is based on the notion of the body as a carrier for memory and personal history. Pierre-Paul Savoie, in an intimate solo, reveals the physiological places within his own body that hold memories both personal and universal – memories formed by ancestry, childhood, family, education and those that come by way of inheritance, both tangible and intangible.
Credits
- Choreographer/Performer: Pierre-Paul Savoie
- Dramaturge: Lise Vaillancourt
- Music: Alexander MacSween
- Set Design: Jocelyn Proulx
- Light Design: Stéphane Ménigot
- Repetitors: Ginelle Chagnon, Éve Lalonde and Louis Pelchat
Length: 27 minutes
Confidences d’un corps was created with the support of Salle Pauline-Julien and Cirque du Soleil.
Photos
Pierre-Paul Savoie - biography
Pierre-Paul Savoie
Photo : Yvan Bartolini
Founder and Artistic Director of PPS Danse. As both a dancer and choreographer, Pierre-Paul has collaborated whit innumerable arts from Québec and has contributed to a number of significant cultural events involving cinema and theatre. He has to date created more than 15 major works recognized by critics and public for their emotionaland reflective resonance. In 1996, he received, along with his creative partner Jeff Hall, the prestigious Jacqueline Lemieux award from the Canada Council for the Arts. Since its inception, PPS Danse has presented more than 400 performances in numerous cities throughout Canada, the US, and Europe.
Performance schedule (2008-2009)
| 21 October 2008 | Centennial Theatre Bishop’s University 2600 rue College Sherbrooke, Québec Tickets: 819-822-9692 |
| 21 November 2008 | Salle Pauline-Julien 15 615, boul. Gouin ouest l’Îthe-Bizard Ste-Geneviève, Montréal Tickets: 514-626-1616
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| 21 February 2009 | Théâtre du Rift 32, rue Ste-Anne Ville-Marie, QC Tickets : 819-629-3111
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| 24 February 2009 | Théâtre du Cuivre 145 rue Taschereau O. Rouyn-Noranda, Québec Tickets: 819-797-7133
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| 27 February 2009 | Salle Anaïs-Allard-Rousseau 1425 place de l' Hôtel-De-Ville Trois-Rivières, Québec Tickets: 819-380-9797
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| 26 April 2009 | Théâtre Baie-Comeau 1660, rue de Brandagne Baie Comeau, Québec Tickets: 418-295-2000
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| 29 April 2009 | Salle de spectacle régionale Desjardins 99 place Suzanne-Guité New Richmond, Québec Tickets: 418-0392-4238
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