“All these objects that hinder and hobble the body eventually serve to magnify it. […] Like Louis Dufort’s remix of excerpts from Bach’s Goldberg Variations as performed by Glenn Gould in 1981 […] all the elements of this rich, finely chiselled piece are remixed, recycled, diverted from their original intent; the barres, the sounds, words, vocal textures, the medical material, the meaning of gestures, the notion of constraint and liberty.” (La Presse, Montreal)
“Between fascination and repulsion – in particular point shoes, symbols of classical dance training – Marie Chouinard launches an attack on the new body that redefines physical limits, invents new laws of movement and incidentally enjoys […] A dissonant symphony, bODY_rEMIX/les_vARIATIONS_gOLDBERG breaks free of convention and custom to shake up the imagination of the body in movement.”(Le Monde, Paris)
“Chouinard was stunningly creative... dance and music met in a totally new way.” (Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Ludwigsburg)
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Variations on the exercise of liberty. In harness, shackled, dancing on points – balancing on 1, 2 and sometimes 4 points at once, the fourteen dancers of this piece plunge into a sensitive, meticulous exploration of movement. The use of props creates highly unusual dynamics and body forms, metaphors for toil, strength, desire, pleasure and human ingenuity. The piece was presented by the Danse Danse series in the Fall of 2007.
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