Compagnonnage 21

2021

With Anne Thériault, Jean-Benoit Labrecque, Nindy Banks, Abe Simon Mijnheer, Karina Champoux, Nicolas Patry, Cheline Lacroix, Philippe Dépelteau, Lila Geneix, Bailey Eng, Marine Rixhon, Marie-Ève Quilicot, Alice Marroquin, Brontë Poiré-Prest, Claudel Doucet, Stacey Désilier, Myriam Arseneault Campbell, Milan Panet-Gigon, Naomi Hilaire, Sébastien Provencher, Catherine Dagenais-Savard, Nasim Lootij, Raul Huaman, Maude Veilleux, Charlotte Fallu, François Bouvier, Marilou Verschelden, Penélope Desjardins photographer Luc Senécal, video artist Marjorie de Chantal and other artists to be confirmed.

The Project

Fascinated by transmission devices, Danièle Desnoyers now brings together artists involved in multiple projects at the Carré des Lombes as well as artists working in the field of performing arts and invites them to participate in a companionship project designed to respond to the specific context that the pandemic has created.

The repertoire of Le Carré des Lombes becomes a territory to be shared, a garden of possibilities where artists from different generations, from different practices, meet and establish a dialogue. Revisiting this multiple repertoire and encouraging its otherness, its transformation in contact with new perceptions, new intuitions, new points of view becomes the anchor point of the project.

But if the repertoire is in a way the cornerstone of the project, COMPAGNONNAGE 21 also makes room for inclusive creation or (re)creation devices for which guest curator Anne Thériault creates links between artists, initiates a dialogue with them and provides them with support, a form of accompaniment to be imagined between the parties.

If plant companionship is a horticultural technique that consists of associating plants that are companions of each other within the same cultures, the idea here is to create associations with different artists that are no doubt unlikely but that will lead to the renewal of practices.

Some principles

Do not harm, allow development, encourage, do not compete with each other. Companionship thus becomes an act of benevolence, resourcing and development.

Some rules of our game

An artist chooses to be the companion of two to four artists and develops a context where the art of exchange, transmission and sharing is at the heart of his project.

Each companionship cell must bring together artists from different generations and/or from the diversity of practices in the performing arts.

An opening towards other formats than the representation devices must allow the documentation of each companionship cell. Photographic documents, videos and podcasts become the artefacts of these projects. Selected excerpts will be available on the Carré des Lombes website over time and will constitute the work-test of a collective process.

Le Carré des Lombes will ensure the remuneration of all the artists involved in accordance with the collective agreement of the Union des artistes. Studio conditions will respec
t the health measures of the CNESST.

Anne Thériault: guest curator

Although the project was first conceived by Danièle Desnoyers and the repertoire of Le Carré des Lombes occupies a privileged place in it, the contribution of a guest curator aims to diversify the issues, from the overall conceptualization of the project to its full realization.

Involved for nearly ten years in numerous creations at Le Carré des Lombes, Anne Thériault has become a leading collaborator in the company’s projects over the years.

Her experience as a performer with numerous choreographers and artists in theatre and performance, her own research and creation work, as well as her conceptualization of a structure such as L’Organisme, make her a leading curator for a project such as COMPAGNONNAGE 21. She ensures the artistic coherence between each of the project’s cells and contributes to giving them a broader vision, thus encouraging the artists involved to recharge their batteries.

THE CELLS :

(Re)Recreation Cell
Jean-Benoit Labrecque appropriates the (RE)Re-creation of Duos pour corps et instruments in an updated, off-code version, and invites two performers to join him to revisit, from a different perspective, his own, a leading work of the Carré des Lombes repertoire. Based on La Boite chorégraphique created in 2014 by La Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault, he invests the content of the work, accompanied by two performers who participated in the re-creation of the piece in 2014, Anne Thériault and Karina Champoux.

Jean-Benoit Labrecque , Abe Simon Mijnheer © Luc Senécal | (Re)Recreation cell

UNFOLD cell
Nicolas Patry shares his concerns about the notions of freedom, inner journey, commitment and self-affirmation in the act of creating. Through learning excerpts from UNFOLD|7 perspectives, he approaches studio work, its multiple and complex tasks through the prism of his experience.

This unit is intended for performers who wish to share a reflection on this question: how to remain connected to his impulses and sensitivity in a context of performance, creation, writing and exchange within an artistic team?

Cheline Lacroix, Philippe Dépelteau, Nicolas Patry | Unfold Cell | COMPAGNONNAGE 21 © Luc Senécal

Open cell
This cell is proposed to an artist wishing to develop his approach without the imperatives of a production. Anne Thériault will consult the chosen artist to determine with him or her his or her needs in terms of support, or any other needs identified between the two parties.

This workshop benefits from exceptional assistance granted by Diagramme gestion culturelle as part of the COMPAGNONNAGE 21 project.

Charlotte Fallu, Claudel Doucet | Open Cell © Luc Senécal

Cellule Solos
Anne Thériault shares fragments of Sous la peau la nuitParadoxe Mélodie and Anatomie d’un souffle and takes the crossroads that fed her imagination to make this solo writing.

How to make a physical substance resonate differently, while following his instincts as a performer in a benevolent relationship with the body, mind and creation?

This unit is for artists who have the need, desire and curiosity to invest in choreographic material and to deploy it with radical physical qualities and varied intensities.

Penélope Desjardins, Marine Rixhon © Luc Senécal | Solo Cell

Interpretation Process cell
Anne Thériault designs a workshop that pays particular attention to the commitment of the performers and their dramaturgical impact in a creative process. Anne Thériault invites 4 artists to deepen their reflection by identifying a personal issue related to their role and specialization as performers within a creative process.

Sébastien Provencher (guest choreographer) is in charge of the development of the choreographic material. Throughout this workshop, Anne Thériault accompanies each performer individually in the pursuit of their reflection while opening a collective dialogue on the specific issues related to the reality of new interpretive practices.

© Luc Senécal | Cellule Interprétation

Le Carré des Lombes is very grateful to be able to count on the support of Circuit-Est center chorégraphique with the loan of their rental spaces.