Rencontres Fragmentaires

Rencontres Fragmentaires explores echoes of our somatic experiences and their poetic footprints. Movement as a source of impression; experiencing time and our relationship to each other and our environment. Diving into Sensitive Tracks; What do we leave behind? What stays inside?

My master thesis published in 2018 looked into how each individual relationship to gravity reveals a very unique and authentic posture (and mouvement signature!), thus affecting our many relatioships to others-the world. I am still fascinated by how expressive humain movement is, and how the body is a rich universe of memories. RF started as a dance research/creation for two dancers (with a grant from CALQ). I proposed to the choregrapher Fannie Côté e few key words : imprints, trace (time-generation, sensations) and two questions : « what do we leave behind? » & « what stays inside? ». Fannie was interested in playing with the idea of space : how it affects movement and relationship (inner/outer, intimate/distance). Our showing after 30h of studio research/creation and a day of residency in the theatre was cancelled due to the arrival of Omicron (COVID) in Dec 2021. We then decided to do a dancefilm; a new project with the same essence of movement and original theme, still playing with space but with a cinematographic approach. We received a new Grant (CALQ) in 2022, editing was finished early 2023. I wanted young dancers to appear (all of them are-were my dance students) and we liked the idea of duality (inside/outside, dirty/chic, nature/city). The rest is the director’s vision and talent!!!