CUTTING THROUGH THE NOISE
2024
Cutting Through the Noise is an energetic journey, an exaltation through the body and the music, a stream of liberating states, a search for identity carried by generous and insatiable beings. Given that the project was conceived during the second year of the pandemic, dance here is reinvested as an act of resilience.
On stage, 12 performers activate the space through a succession of steps in a forward motion towards the audience, allowing a series of subtle transformations to unfold. A playlist inspired by EBM (electronic body music), evoking the energy of a club, propels the movement. At the heart of this choreographic drift is a certain nostalgia, electric youth, and imagery belonging to the Post-Internet Generation. For Morin, the title of the piece claims a reappropriation of the body by this new generation – who are actively trying to find their way in a noisy world where screens reign more than ever, where sustained attention is increasingly difficult.
Choreography Alexandre Morin
Performance Rodrigo Alvarenga, Myriam Arseneault, Clémence Dinard, Aurélie Figaro, Valmont Harnois, Benjamin Harvey, Marianne Lataillade, Nils Levazeux, Marianne Murphy, Rosalie Paquette, Émile de Vasconcelos-Taillefer and Evelynn Yan
Sound and Video Jonathan Goulet
Dramaturgy Mathieu Leroux
Rehearsal Director Lucie Vigneault
Lighting Jon Cleveland
Costumes Fany McCrae
Technical Director Sophie Robert
Production Director Alexandre Morin
Creation residencies Département de danse de l'UQAM + École de danse contemporaine de Montréal
Cutting Through the Noise has received the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and le Conseil des arts de Montréal.