Où tu vas quand tu dors en marchant…?

YAHWATSIRA’

Creation Aïcha Bastien N’Diaye & Lydia Wagerer

Yahwatsira’, Wendat word for family, an animal’s litter or a bird’s brood. This scene is an opportunity to meet and share, a celebration through movement and music, of families, those we are born in and those we chose.

On an industrial-looking site, grows an installation that echoes both a worksite and a parking. In this hostile environment, 12 dancing and dynamic characters are brought to life. You will find movements that unites and celebrates our differences instead of fitting everything in the same box.

In the midst of the group, enchanting musicians will harmonize on African percussions, Irish jig, Pow Wow traditional music, voguing…anything to remind us that dancing is within everyone of us and that it is much more fun to dance with family than alone.

Join the family!

VESUVIUS

Creation Étienne La Frenière

Years before the fatal eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79, the citizens of Pompei survived a lot of natural disasters which we can now associate to foreshadowing signs : repeated earthquakes which destroyed houses, toxic emissions which killed livestock… Then, all of a sudden, Vesuvius erupted and turned the entire city to ashes.

In this day and age, with the climate change breeding more and more natural disasters, Vesuvius takes roots in this thousand-years-old tragedy to observe humanity’s lack of actions for our natural habitat. While the citizens of Pompei did not have the tools to foretell this tragedy, their inaction towards the foreshadowing events echoes the current times : nature is speaking, let’s pay attention!

With twenty performers around a huge installation, Vesuvius tells the dream-like story of the relationship between human-fossils and a volcano. The creator Étienne La Frenière orchestrates physical theatre, epic music and creative scenography signed by Vano Hotton. A surprising visual story threatened by the explosion and offering a good dose of humility to humanity.

Maybe for dust we are at the foot of a dust mountain.

THE INFLUENCERS’ MARKET

Creation Nicolas Drolet & Erika Soucy

Shop around the stalls of the Influencers’ Market to find your sweet spot, inspiration, entertainment and/or the best deal for self-love! Fake Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitch and YouTube stars make a spectacle of themselves, without ever looking you in the eyes of course.

Through the event, you may ask yourselves : “Is it a zoo? A fair? Is this Amsterdam’s red light district?” And we’ll answer : “Nah, bro. That’s just the internet and there’s no escape.”

Whether content creators or Broadway performers, these influencers will dazzle you with a Musical of Depravity. By celebrating emptiness and excess, the Influencers’s Market questions our passive and compulsive consumption of social media and sheds light on our strange habit of feeding the beast.

«We are all ostrogoths on vacation.»

THE NIGHT IS OURS

Creation Jocelyn Pelletier & Pascal Asselin (Millimetrik)

Through an immersive flashback in the 90s underground rave culture, the audience is welcomed to let loose and access this sort of collective trance in which the pleasure of dancing and being together is electrifying and freeing. These rave parties were a safe space for people of varying cultures and style to get together and share through music and movement, a peaceful, profound, physical and greatly positive experience.

In this time capsule of the golden age of electronic music, the audience is also subjected to a key and very influencial element of this counter-culture movement : the art of graffiti. You are invited to explore this cellphone free universe, without judgement, castes and limits, like we can’t find anymore. The creators Jocelyn Pelletier and Pascal Asselin welcome you to this euphoric celebration!

Come over, let’s go in the 90s.