{"id":54491,"date":"2017-01-25T19:20:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=54491"},"modified":"2017-10-02T15:06:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T15:06:34","slug":"the-fictions-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcboivin.org\/en\/the-fictions-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fictions Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\u00abNo human group has ever been found moving quietly through reality in the manner of other animals: with no religion, no taboo, no ritual, no genealogy, no tales, no magic, no stories, no recourse to imagination, that is to say, without any fictions.\u00bb<\/em> -Nancy Huston<\/p>\n

At the offset of the creative process, given parameters set in motion the singularity of a project. In this case, two different performance settings, one in situ the other the black box. Then, the meeting with three highly capable female performers brings forth the desire to challenge and juxtapose their different qualities. Their shared level of expertise and their very different artistic worlds allows a research on the role of \u201cperception\u201d. How is something different only because of how it is lived, exposed and perceived? Starting simply with a material of 9 movement phrases, their random juxtapositions, solo, duo and trio direct the process. Interpretation is everything.<\/p>\n

There is no projected core of inner certainty, only paths of random connectivity and acts of free will. We are the fictions we create and each of these fictions is a reality, a fragile, unique and fleeting invitation to lead the mind into new schemes of understanding. Sujectivity is everything.<\/p>\n

Inspired by Canadian author Nancy Huston\u2019s essay L\u2019esp\u00e8ce fabulatrice, Fictions could have been titled \u201cwatching serendipity\u201d\u2026 and choosing to follow it. It is a revealing process to discover from observation where resonance happens when bodies move and to arrest there one\u2019s attention. Kinaesthesia is an open window on the singularity of being.<\/p>\n

A first version of the fictions project, was created for the 2009 edition of Dusk Dances. Of this original version entitled Withrow park, only the study of movement systems and elements of environment were conserved, fragments of a plasticity that invited transposition and a new context. From the green of nature to that of the Chroma key, from the descending light of dusk to the coldness of fluorescence, from landscape to canvas, and all this to the black box: to construct an aesthetic space is to long for perception, feeling and sensing.<\/p>\n

If nature is perceived as the place of truth where things exist in their simplest reality, in reverse the stage is the place where reality is recreated in hope of receiving it differently Yet a performance outside is as constructed as an emotion in the theatre can be real and yet again, both reveal our desire to recreate what seems natural. Again, subjectivity is everything. The fictions that we create are our truths.<\/p>\n

Withrow Park<\/em>
\nChoreographer > Marc Boivin
\nDancers > Kate Alton + Kate Franklin + Kate Holden
\nMusic >
\nSpem in alium, Thomas Tallis
\nRUNDFUNKCHOIR BERLIN
\nCostume > Marc Boivin
\nOutside eye > Sylvie Bouchard<\/p>\n

Fictions : Chroma Key<\/em>
\nChoreographer > Marc Boivin
\nDansers > Kate Alton + Kate Franklin + Kate Holden
\nMusic >
\nArteries of Tokyo, Atau Tanaka
\nBondage, Atau Tanaka
\nWinds of Guitar, Garlo
\nForever Bach, Knut Nystedt
\nRUNDFUNKCHOIR BERLIN
\nCostume > Heather MacCrimmon
\nLights > Bonnie Beecher
\nSet > Marc Boivin<\/p>\n

Thanks : LADMMI L\u2019\u00e9cole de danse contemporaire, Dancemakers and the Centre for Creation, Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie, Paul Chambers at Tangente.
\nThe Fictions Project<\/em> is a coproduction of DuskDances and firstthingsfirst productions<\/p>\n