Fringe Festival Reviews #6
D’arrache-pied jusqu’au bout de tes doigts
Jacqueline van de Geer, 2024
Johanne Gour is a mid-career choreographer working since 2009 and she once again presents her piece D’arrache-pied jusqu’au bout de tes doigts created in June 2023. We enter the room where two dancers drag a body wrapped in a gray blanket until they find the ideal place to leave it, over to the side. It is the beginning of a performance where the tangible and the intangible, the formal and the sensitive respond to each other in a very touching way. We witness the body as a bearer of meaning.
The piece testifies to the fascination with the relationship between the obligatory immobility of those who sit and the capacity to set out to discover. Wheelchair-bound choreographer Gour is on stage alongside Alexandra MacLean and Esther Gaudette. For an hour, they illustrate the reality of a functional disability as well as the human need to get closer to others. This choreography is tender, relevant and takes us into a world of emotions.
It shows that Gour is interested in movement, in its mechanics, its organization, and its expressive capacity. Accompanied by two wonderful dancers, we appreciate the piece with its sensitivity, technical precision, and tone above a little madness.
A must see!
https://montrealrampage.com/fringe-festival-reviews-6-2/
D’arrache-pied jusqu’au bout de tes doigts
Jacqueline van de Geer, 2024
Johanne Gour is a mid-career choreographer working since 2009 and she once again presents her piece D’arrache-pied jusqu’au bout de tes doigts created in June 2023. We enter the room where two dancers drag a body wrapped in a gray blanket until they find the ideal place to leave it, over to the side. It is the beginning of a performance where the tangible and the intangible, the formal and the sensitive respond to each other in a very touching way. We witness the body as a bearer of meaning.
The piece testifies to the fascination with the relationship between the obligatory immobility of those who sit and the capacity to set out to discover. Wheelchair-bound choreographer Gour is on stage alongside Alexandra MacLean and Esther Gaudette. For an hour, they illustrate the reality of a functional disability as well as the human need to get closer to others. This choreography is tender, relevant and takes us into a world of emotions.
It shows that Gour is interested in movement, in its mechanics, its organization, and its expressive capacity. Accompanied by two wonderful dancers, we appreciate the piece with its sensitivity, technical precision, and tone above a little madness.
A must see!
https://montrealrampage.com/fringe-festival-reviews-6-2/