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The Monsters

Cas Public

Cas Public celebrates 30 years of creation with The Monsters, a production in semidarkness from whose shadows emerge the monsters that inhabit our childhood imagination, the most disturbing of which continue to haunt us as we age.

This project marks the first artistic collaboration between Choreographer Hélène Blackburn and Lighting Designer Lucie Bazzo. Together they conjure a universe where darkness and light synergistically interact and converse. Light, lighting, shadows, reflections, ghostlike colours: these intangible forces come together and sculpt the dancing bodies, transforming the performers into alchemists who have the power to bring light out of darkness. Immersed in the atmospheric music of the Montreal trio Dear Criminals, The Monsters twists the known into the unknown; the familiar becomes strange and the disturbing once again becomes comforting. From illuminated objects to play with reflections, unexpected and surprising elements come alive and follow each other in delicate succession, deceiving our sense of perception. Vulnerability, passion and fierceness are at odds, giving way to the contours of a space where small fears, strange fascinations and vivid pleasures intermingle.

Info

Creation 2019

50 minutes

5 dancers

Specs

8 hours set-up

2 hours strike

Tour

8 people on tour

2 double bedrooms

4 single bedrooms

Audience

Starting from 7 years old

 Workshop available

 Discussion after the show

why program this show?

  • Original composition by acclaimed dance-electro band Dear Criminals
  • Stunning lighting effects by Lucie Bazzo highlight athleticism
  • Accessible to audiences of all ages
  • Exceptional, virtuoso and fascinating choreography by Hélène Blackburn

credits

Choreography and Artistic Direction Hélène Blackburn Music Dear Criminals Lighting Design Lucie Bazzo in collaboration with Hélène Blackburn and Étienne Fournier Set Design Hélène Blackburn and Lucie Bazzo Costumes Michael Slack Animations Marjolaine Leray Technical Direction Emmanuel Landry Photos Alex Paillon


The Monsters  is a creation of Cas Public in co-production with Lucie Bazzo and l'Agora de la danse. This creation has benefited of a creation residencies : Agora de la danse  (Montreal, Canada), Royal Opera House (London, United Kingdom), Teatralia (Madrid, Spain) and Théâtre Paul Eluard (Bezons, France). The company would like to thank dancers Alexander Ellison, Cai Glover, Daphnée Laurendeau, Carson McDougall, Danny Morissette and Jaym O’Esso for their collaboration in the creation of this work.

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