With modesty and sensitivity, Marc Boivin performs an autobiographical solo that sheds light on the mysterious architecture of memory.

When I make a work, I am always asking, what makes the interior of this person a unique vantage point? How is this a specific story?

When Marc arrived on Vancouver island to create with me, I picked him up at the airport to drive him to the ferry to take us to the small island where I lived.

As we drove, he happened to speak about his childhood love of architecture.

We dove into creation and I was more and more struck by his vivid way of placing his pivotal experiences in a specific set of rooms, or architectural layout. It felt like I could see these spaces, and the light in the spaces, where the moments and shifts of fate had occurred in Marc’s life.

We had created some intricately danced patterns and gesture sequences that would repeat during the piece, and I was inspired to also incorporate specific light patterns into the storytelling.

With the masterful artistic collaboration of James Proudfoot and Antoine Bedard, lighting designer and sound designer, these patterns of spaces of light and environments of sound are able to weave and dance through the stories.

-Sarah Chase

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Choreography: Sarah Chase

Dancer: Marc Boivin

Sound design: Antoine Bédard

Lighting: James Proudfoot

 

The creation of this solo was made possible with the financial support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and Agora de la danse.

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Starting fall 2022, Art Circulation, a non-profit organization composed of contemporary dance companies and independent artists, will be representing the solo The door opened west, a choreography by Sarah Chase dedicated to Marc Boivin.

The door opened west will be presented in Montreal as part of the OFF-CINARS program, in Circuit-Est’s Studio C, at 1881 St-André, on November 9, 2022, at 2:30 p.m. (English version) and on November 11, 2022, at 12 p.m. (French version).

For more details, please contact Jamie Wright at Art Circulation: jamie@artcirculation.org.
https://artcirculation.org/en/company/marc-boivin/

 

photo credit : Sarah Chase