Beauté Brute
Beauté Brute is a dance work wherein three female creatures meet. The audience is invited into a dreamlike world where there exists a strong connection to desire, mysticism, and variations of self portrayal. The piece examines a common pulse between the dancers through the lens of femininity and sisterhood. While connecting to a deep sense of fantasy, each character embarks on a path towards feminine expression through a shared experience in ritual.
Beauté Brute est un univers parallèle où trois femmes-créatures se rencontrent. Elles trouvent, à travers un rituel, le chemin vers l’expression de leur féminité. Elles explorent les limites de leur fantasme physique tout en cherchant à se connecter à une pulsion universelle.
(2017) La Rotonde, Québec
(2016) Festival OFFTA, Montréal
(2016) Festival Vue sur la Relève, Montréal
(2015) Dance Matters Series, Toronto
(2015) Festival Zone Homa, Montréal
Concept and/et Direction: LA TRESSE
Choreography and Performance/Chorégraphie et Interprétation: Geneviève Boulet, Erin O’Loughlin, Laura Toma
Lighting Design/Éclairages: Hugo Dalphond
Musical Score/Trame Sonore: Camille Jacques
Outside Eyes/Oeils Extérieurs: Veronica Benz, Marianne Gignac-Girard
Costumes: Gina Osorio
Video Montage and/et Réalisation: José Enrique Montes-Hernandez
Support/Soutien: Conseil des Arts du Canada, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Louise Lapierre Danse
“Montréal-based LA TRESSE collective taps into [the] elegance of human anomaly in their work BEAUTÉ BRUTE… choreographers and performers Laura Toma, Erin O’Loughlin and Geneviève Boulet are captured writhing, strutting and arcing with unnatural flection and captivating tension.”
—— Jillian Groening, The Dance Current
“Danseuses de haut vol et profusion de tableaux-pépites, le Collectif LA TRESSE est indéniablement à suivre.”
—— Nayla Naoufal, Le Devoir