PARTS+LABOUR_DANSE
DAVID ALBERT TOTH & EMILY GUALTIERI
May 29 to June 2 and June 5 to June 9 | 2:30PM to 6:00PM
Place: 1435 rue Bleury | Édifice Wilder: Espace danse
Studio:
May 29 - June 2 École de danse contemporaine de Montréal
June 5 - 9 Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique, Studio A (Saint-André)
Laboratory Description
This lab is a platform for experimentation, discovery, and reaction. By practicing these, we will build something meaningful out of nothing. We will harness simplicity and clarity while working towards an efficient and comprehensive approach to creation. Directed tasks, structured improvisations, and state-based propositions will inform your experience. We will teach material and build specific ideas with you, a process to which you will actively contribute. We encourage you to view this time together as an opportunity to embrace our vision and our methods from the viewpoint of a collaborator. We will generate, you will generate, and we’ll dig together, embracing and using our faults, secrets, and strengths as allies in creation. For those looking to immerse themselves in a voice, there is a place for you here. For those who are looking to channel and develop their own voice, there is a place for you here as well.
Creative Process Description
Working as a pair provides us with the unique opportunity to develop the choreographic direction from two different yet complimentary artistic perspectives. Genuine human connection, affectivity, and interdependence are recurring themes in our work. The cerebral and visceral are inextricably linked, pushing us to create physically driven work that explores a deeper perception and embodiment of the performer’s humanity. Our collaborators are encouraged to define what this means for them at all times. Our work ultimately stems from a place of deep sensitivity and wonder, a place into which we want to invite our collaborators and our audience, to allow them to deepen parts of themselves through genuine, unabashed self-reflection.
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