PREMIÈRE MONTRÉALAISE

DEBORDEMENTS

Du 6 au 16 novembre à 20h15

DEBORDEMENTS

November 6 to 16 at 8:15pm

Montreal premiere of La Otra Orilla's new creation at Ateliers Belleville

« Our life is a journey in winter and night.
We seek our passage. »*

The heretic’s way

Flamenco punk mash, DEBORDEMENTS by La Otra Orilla is a manifesto of physical and ethical verticality.

Rooted in a scream, accompanied by Guy Debord’s words, this performance rises in the intensity of a physical and sonic surge without limit, nor restraint. Overflowing, resisting, standing up to the repeated assaults of forces that command complete obedience of flesh, mind and soul.

Three protagonists like emancipated ewes stray into the exhilarating light of the bypaths, stating loud and clear their sovereign right never to join the herd.

* From the film Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps, by Guy Debord, 1959.

2023

60 minutes

CREDITS

On stage Myriam Allard, Hedi Graja, Jonathan Parant
Choreography Myriam Allard
Direction and scenography Hedi Graja
Music Jonathan Parant
Lights Étienne Boucher
Assistant-programming Bruno Mandeville
Costumes Elen Ewing
Assistant-costumes Fany McCrae
Rehearsal Director Hélène Messier
Production manager Jacinthe Nepveu
Artistic collaborator Juan Carlos Lérida
Texts Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la Société du Spectacle, 1988

PARTNERS

Salle Pauline-Julien (Sainte-Geneviève, Canada) | Quai 5160 (Montreal, Canada) | La Fabrica Flamenca (Toulouse, France)

Complementary Texts

WORDS FROM THE ARTISTIC CO-DIRECTORS

Refuse diktats. To claim the freedom to think, the freedom of movement, the right to exist differently. To deconstruct, to question, to blur the contexts to then see what emanates. To seek the fall, to find the rise, to listen to the impulse.

We are thirsty for dialogue and the premise of this new creation emerges at the crossroads of the language of flamenco and punk, where the instinctive and a form of counterculture are the essence.

Flamenco is a total art. Raw. Visceral. It is an art of expenditure and excess. It brings us back to the present moment; to the here and now. It is a deep and powerful art. “An attitude towards life and an individual and collective exercise of resistance. It is necessary, universal and timeless.

At the same time, there is something primitive about the punk philosophy. The punk is not purified, it is raw. It hijacks the codes, refuses the establishment, plays with derision and any ostentatious demonstration of virtuosity is superfluous. Both forms reach engaged, active audiences, who react with their voice or their body to what happens on stage (think of the jaleo or the pogo).

SOUND RESEARCH

Punk music, flamenco and the languages of our grandmothers are integrated into a tonal and spatial research, sometimes illuminating, sometimes obscuring the alterations of the voice and the body magnified, thanks to an architecture of microphones and artificial bases manipulated in real time. Interactive micro-scenes with sound sensors amplify and transform the dance steps. With each step, the ground
becomes a more visible space. With each sound, the body becomes more tangible.

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Nov

2024