Description

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Year of creation: 2024

Duration: 100 minutes

4 dancers + 2 musicians

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Animated still life, eco-queer and ecosomatic choreography, ceremony of flowers and sensuality, Floreus is a site-specific work that brings forth the softness of queer intimacy. Inspired by the work of visual artist Zachari Logan (Website), choreographer Sébastien Provencher brings together an interdisciplinary team from contemporary dance + music + visual art + floristry to create an ambitious diptyque.

 

The first choreographic tableau, symbolizing shadow, unfolds inside a chapel; the second, symbolizing light, outside in a garden. Working with four dancers using improvisational systems, Sébastien Provencher brings Logan's pictorial works to life in vivid tableaux in which the body, nature and queer identity emulsify.

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Credits

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Choreography - Sébastien Provencher | Performance - Drew Bathory, Rodney Diverlus, Kizis, Nicholas Bellefleur, Mathieu Hérard, Rony Jaoquin Figueroa, Zachari Logan | Music - Drew Bathory, Kizis | Costumes and scenography - Jonathan Saucier | Creative insight - Helen Simard | Visual art piece - NelMezzoDelCamminDiNostraVita (Zachari Logan) | Floral Design - Marc Sardi | Lighting - Tiffanie Boffa | Technical director - Samuel Thériault | Production director - Maurice-G. Du Berger | Production - Lorganisme

 

Coproduction Festival TransAmériques

Creation partners - Jardins de Métis, Peabody Essex Museum, UQAM Dance department

Financial partner - Canadian Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal

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Photos : Mathieu Hérard (1), Rony Jaoquin Figueroa (2 and 4) and Kizis (3)