Anne Thériault

Con grazia

• Description

  Length: 50 minutes

  Martin Messier and Anne Thériault are human detonators shattering the tension of an opus dedicated to the demolition of objects. An unsettling ode to the agony of the material world.

  Masters in the art of giving visual form to sounds, the virtuoso jacks of all trades and movement maestri Martin Messier and Anne Thériault are human detonators shattering the tension of an opus dedicated to the demolition of objects. In Con grazia they sound the knell of the death of matter. In the shadow of meticulous, performative destruction, machines rumble and roar, ready to create chaos. They go at it with vigour, hammering away to a precisely determined score, with much clanging and clashing as objects selected for their spherical harmony burst into bits in a blur as gloves, sledgehammer blows and movements flash before the eye. The hands think and strike. Manipulated by the performers, light sources imprint little miracles on the retina. Lamps caress what destruction has wrought from beauty. Messier and Thériault pulverize with grace, torturing the ripe fruit in a musical, rhythmic carnage that is intensely sensorial. An unsettling ode to the agony of the material world.

  — Jessie Mill, Festival TransAmériques 2016

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• Credits

  • Directed, co-created and performed Martin Messier + Anne Thériault

  • Lighting design Martin Messier + Anne Thériault

  • Music Martin Messier

  • Visual design Thomas Payette

  • Robotics Louis Tschreiber

  • Outside eye Patrick Lamothe

  • Original idea Martin Messier

  • Production 14 lieux + lorganisme

  • Co-production Festival TransAmériques

  • Creative residencies Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique + Théâtre Hector-Charland

  • Support Conseil des arts de Montréal + Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec + Conseil des arts du Canada

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