Choreographer Virginie Brunelle
Dancers Isabelle Arcand, Nicholas Bellefleur, Sophie Breton, Alexandre Carlos, Chi Long, Milan Panet-Gigon, Marine Rixhon, Peter Trosztmer, Lucie Vigneault, Evelynn Yan
Pianist Laurier Rajotte
Dramaturgy Nicolas Berzi
Rehearsal director Claudine Hébert
Piano composition et soundtrack composition Laurier Rajotte
Soundtrack composition and sound environment Philippe Brault
Sound engineer Joël Lavoie
Costume designer Elen Ewing
Scenography designer Marilène Bastien
Light designer Martin Labrecque
Production director Charlotte Ménard
Technical director François Marceau
Administrative director Sylvie Lavoie
Coproducers LAC – Lugano Arte e Cultura, Danse Danse, Ottawa National Arts Centre, Harbourfront Centre, Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur
Through a rigorous movement vocabulary, Fables offers a sometimes harsh, sometimes poetic vision of women’s ongoing struggle. Against the backdrop of the chaos of an era turned upside down, the piece projects us into fantastical spaces from which larger–than-life characters emerge — contemporary female archetypes who paved the way to freedom from invisible yet real barriers. A universe of great evocative power, echoing a crying need for utopia, hope and humanity.
Fables is a work produced with the precious support of the National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts de Montréal
” Virginie Brunelle’s dance is eloquent. Enthusiasm, invention, ferocity and an air of anger […]. Fables is adorned with satire, resists sensitivity and avoids beautiful, digressive and enraged virtuosity. It’s a worrying work, a Quebecois cry that includes bravura pieces and is tempted by theatricality. “
” The choreographer has chosen to tackle the theme of feminism, and does so in a grandiose way, sculpting unforgettable characters through the most expressive dance theater […]. “
” Brunelle shows, with a dance figure characterized by the raw emotion of the performers and the humanity of the subjects tackled, the disillusionment, the ecstasy, the cracks, the fragility. […] The bodies glide on the ground, hover, contract, sublimely fluid, energetic, in an increasingly fast and compact crescendo. An almost tribal dance that becomes liberating. “
