PROJECTIONS : LOVE SONGS + LIGHT

LA SEMAINE DU NEUF · Tribute to Claude Vivier

Photo de Phth et Jimmie Leblanc
Photo de Phth et Jimmie Leblanc

The vocal collective Phth invests its body and voice in this visceral and dreamlike interpretation of the work Love Songs by Quebec composer Claude Vivier. This art video revitalizes the work of the renowned Quebec composer, while remaining sensitive to his whimsical and dramatic style. Sensitive to the achievements of the queer milieu since the work's creation in 1977, the heteronormative relational structures of the score are subverted, celebrating the ambiguity of gender and sexuality.

Rounding out the program is a screening of Light, a mono-opera composed by Jimmie LeBlanc that revisits a central moment in Montreal writer Klara du Plessis' (South Africa/Canada) triptych Hell Light Flesh (2020), a poetic and narrative work in which a writer recalls, through creation, a moment of complicity with her mother, as the latter tried to protect her from the domestic violence her father inflicted on his older son.

Artists

Representation(s)

Place

Le Café | Monument National

Pricing

PASS ACCES 10$

 

// LOVE SONGS CHANTE LOVE SONGS

Vocalists: Sarah Albu, David Cronkite, Gabriel Dharmoo, Kathy Kennedy, Elizabeth Lima, Andrea Young and Alex Samaras

Music: Claude Vivier 
Musical direction and artistic direction: Sarah Albu
Choreography and Artistic Director Mentorship: Marie-Josée Chartier
Artistic Direction Support: Gabriel Dharmoo 
Video Direction : Ralitsa Doncheva 
Cameras: Ralitsa Doncheva, Jonathan Goulet, Erin Weisgerber  
Lighting: Nien Tzu Weng 
Costume Design: Gabriel Dharmoo, Julie Pichette 
Sound recording and audio mix: Nataq Huault

// LIGHT

Music: Jimmie LeBlanc

Performers: Xin Wang (soprano) and Rob MacDonald (guitar)

Libretto: Klara du Plessis
Dramaturgy and direction: Michael Mori
Photography: Xavier Madore
Lighting: Flavie Lemée
Set design: Sara Sabourin 
Costumes: Alessia Urbani

 

Presented in partnership with the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA)

 

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