très loin is a visual and kinetic installation created in collaborative partnership with choreographer Sylvie Bouchard, visual artist Ed Pien, composer Phil Strong with music consultant Laurel MacDonald, dramaturg Anne-Marie Donovan, lighting designer André du Toit, costume designer Cheryl Lalonde and four performers: Sierra Chin Sawdy, Sully Malaeb Proulx, Raelyn Metcalfe and Pulga Muchochoma.
très loin marries dance, visual art and sound to explore childhood trauma, dissociation, roads to recovery and the search for resilience. The piece looks closely at how our mind and body deal with the consequences of trauma, but most importantly, it portrays the incredible strength, courage and perseverance needed to surmount these experiences and to reintegrate parts of ourselves that get lost, or split off, when traumatic experiences take place.
très loin is inviting the audiences into a unique and sensory-filled art installation, an ethereal landscape where four divided parts are striving, with all their might, to become whole again.
CREDITS
Sylvie Bouchard, with the performers: Choreography
Ed Pien: Visual Installation
Phil Strong: Composer
Laurel MacDonald: Music Consultant
Anne-Marie Donovan: Dramaturg
André du Toit: Lighting Designer
Cheryl Lalonde: Costume Designer
Sierra Chin Sawdy, Sully Malaeb Proulx, Raelyn Metcalfe and Pulga Muchochoma: Performers
Michael Mortley: Understudy
Michael Caldwell, Luke Garwood, Molly Johnson and Meredith Thompson: Original Performers
Remington North: Technical Director
Geoffrey Armour: Associate Technical Director
Jeff Soucy: Stage Manager
Patrick Lynn: Assistant Stage Manager
Markéta Toková: Production Manager
Melanie Hall: Assistant Production Manager
BoucharDanse would like to acknowledge and deeply thank Arts Orillia for the Dance & Design residency in January 2023, where important development of très loin took place.
PARTNERS
A very special thank you to K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation, Lindy Green and Sam Chaiton, the SOCAN Foundation and the Théâtre français de Toronto for their support towards the development of très loin.
REPERTOIRE
photos by Dahlia Katz