{"id":6035,"date":"2024-07-10T14:30:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lorganisme.com\/?post_type=accompaniment&p=6035"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:12:34","slug":"we-all-fall-down","status":"publish","type":"accompaniment","link":"https:\/\/www.lorganisme.com\/en\/accompaniments\/we-all-fall-down\/","title":{"rendered":"We All Fall Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mecdy Jean-Pierre and Maude Laurin-Beaulieu in Papillon \u00a9 Do Phan Hoi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We All Fall Down<\/a> (WAFD) is a non-profit organization that supports and promotes creation, research, and innovation in the performing arts, through interdisciplinary propositions. Founded in December 2019, WAFD formalizes a 20-year collaboration between choreographer Helen Simard and composer Roger White. Under their artistic co-direction, the company examines the relationship between movement and sound, in order to create vibrant, surprisingly organic, highly emotional shows where performers are in a constant state of metamorphosis. Their interdisciplinary approach brings together diverse, bilingual teams of collaborators from dance, music, theatre, poetry and visual art practices, in order to examine and celebrate the complexity of the human condition through paradoxical works that are at once beautiful and haunting, accessible and provoking, familiar and strange. WAFD creates shows for both adult and young audiences, which have been presented in Quebec, Canada, Europe and Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biographies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Helen Simard \u00a9 Roger White<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Roger White \u00a9 Do Phan Hoi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Helen Simard<\/strong> is a choreographer, rehearsal director, dance dramaturge and co-artistic director of WAFD. Originally from Kingston, Ontario, she has lived and worked in Tiohti\u00e1:ke\/Montr\u00e9al for more than two decades. Her background in b-girling and contemporary dance informs her raw, highly physical movement language, yet it is her obsession with deconstructing time and space that make her choreographic approach unique. Using repetition, complex patterns and techniques of sensory overwhelm, Simard creates hypnotic, dreamlike performances that blur the boundaries between conscious and subconscious spaces. Being bilingual (English and French), she is fascinated by states of inbetweenness, as well as practices of translation and misunderstanding. Past works such as No Fun <\/em>(2014), Idiot <\/em>(2017), Requiem Pop<\/em> (2019), Papillon <\/em>(2020), and Dans les bras de Morph\u00e9e<\/em> (2024) are joyfully chaotic and complex in their simplicity, walking a fine line between the real and the imaginary. Simard holds a BFA (Concordia University, 2000) and MA in Dance (Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roger White<\/strong> is an autodidact composer, sound-based artist, and co-artistic director of WAFD. He began his career as an active musician and DJ in Tiohti\u00e1:ke\/Montr\u00e9al\u2019s underground music scene. Today, White primarily composes music for dance, using audio synthesis, hypnotic sound loops and binaural recording techniques to create immersive sonic landscapes that invite spectators to sink into altered levels of consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent work : Tout s’effondre<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tout s’effondre<\/em> explores the themes of falling and collapse with equal parts virtuosity and vulnerability. Using William Butler Yeats’ classic poem “The Second Coming” as a source of inspiration, this new creation employs the motif of chaos as a vector of physical poetry in a never ending cycle of death and rebirth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choreography \u2013 Helen Simard
Performance \u2013 Rodrigo Alvarenga-Bonilla, Bailey Eng, Alyssa Favero, Sage Fabre-Dimsdale, Stephanie Fromentin, Justin Gionet, Mecdy Jean-Pierre, Maude Laurin-Beaulieu, Marie L\u00e9v\u00eaque
Music \u2013 Roger White
Dramaturgical Support \u2013 Erin Lindsay
Rehearsal \u2013 Brianna Lombardo, Kaia Mienna
Lighting \u2013 Tiffanie Boffa
Creation residencies \u2013 Agora de la danse, Studio Cas Public, Centre de Cr\u00e9ation O Vertigo, Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce\u00a0
Financial supports \u2013 Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec, Conseil des arts de Montr\u00e9al, Agora de la danse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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