Floreus // Sébastien Provencher
Description
Year of creation: 2024
Duration: 100 minutes
4 dancers + 2 musicians
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.
Credits
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
Photos : Mathieu Hérard (1), Rony Jaoquin Figueroa (2 and 4) and Kizis (3)