PRESENTATION

Le frottement du monde is a choreographic project initiated with Émilie Girard-Charest. To explore their shared interest for the meeting of gesture and sound, Emilie and Sarah began their journey with the sound of touch. Le frottement du monde looks at the intimacy of two surfaces meeting and communicating their differences: even when seen as smooth, surfaces are textured when looked at more closely. Asperities, calluses, and roughness are put in contact to reveal one common thread: without the other, they do not make sound. Similarly, on a string instrument, there is the necessity for friction. Throughout the entire creation process, we looked at tension, the expectation and the retention that offer a potential opening: what happens before vibration, before the harmonic sound and the resonating body. Le frottement du monde is a zone of constant friction between practices, between beings, between the self and the world: that which strengthens slowly, that breaks over time, that softens, transforms.

 

This piece is the result of Sarah Bronsard’ research-creation during her master’s degree at the UQAM Dance Department. The creation was accompanied by Anne Thériault as artistic advisor, and the thesis-creation was supervised under the guidance of Nicole Harbonnier-Topin, and co-directed by Caroline Raymond.

DISTRIBUTION

2017
 

September 30th _ Independent production at Studio 303 (Montreal)

 

March 12th _ UQAM Dance Department (Montreal)

PARTNERS

UQAM Dance Department _ Space and equipment loan 2015 - 2017

 

Wilder&Davis _ Bow hair donation 2017

Canada Council for the Arts _ Musical composition grant 2016