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ÉCOUTE POUR VOIR

Dialogues on closeness

ÉCOUTE POUR VOIR is made up of various solos dispersed throughout the space and danced simultaneously. Dancers and spectators wear headphones connected to an iPod and share in a choreography for the duration of a piece of music. Participants can experience different versions and a variety of dances by moving from one performer to another, but they can also enjoy the totality of a shifting and dynamic ensemble from a distance. Participants are thus free to come into the dance according to their impulses or as they please.

The purpose of this piece is to create privileged moments between two individuals and to discover such proximal connections. ÉCOUTE POUR VOIR, with its intimate choreographies, offers a new experience of the body’s movement as associated with different melodies, featuring two people in tune with one other, wrapped up in a shared world of sound.

United for a moment and bound up together in movement, dancers and spectators engage in singular encounters and each solo becomes a close dialogue, an interaction that is at once unique and momentous.

Over the years, the company has successfully adapted the piece, developing individual options to be articulated in different contexts.

To view a video presentation of the work:

Media excerpts

MOONEYONTHEATRE.COM
ÉCOUTE POUR VOIR (DANSE CARPE DIEM/EMMANUEL JOUTHE) 2014 SUMMERWORKS REVIEW (August 16, 2014)

LE DEVOIR
Petite-Vallée portée par le souffle de Laurence Jalbert (19 juin 2013)

LA MÉDIATION CULTURELLE (VILLE DE MONTRÉAL)
ÉCOUTE POUR VOIR (March 28, 2012)

LE DEVOIR
De la culture partout… (October 1, 2011)

Performances

Festival des Faubourgs
August 23, 24 and 25, 2024

Tadoussac
June 23, 2019

Festival Dancing on the edge – Vancouver
July 10, 11 and 12, 2019

Bateau Navark – Pointes-aux-Trembles
July 17 and 24, 2019

Festival OFF GFT – Saint-Fabien
July 19, 2019

Les Terrasses Urbaines Cogéco – Rimouski
July 20, 2019

The Dance Centre – Vancouver
April 28 and 29, 2019

Piché-Dufrost school – Saint-Constant
May 1st, 2019

OFF-CINARS 2018 au Conseil des arts de Montréal
November 16, 2018

OFF-CINARS 2018 (in coproduction with Maï(g)wenn et les orteils), édifice Wilder (Montréal)
November 13, 2018

Inauguration of Théâtre Gilles-Vigneault (Saint-Jérôme)
January 18, 2018

CHSLD L’orchidée blanche, La vigie (Laval)
December 2017

Fenêtres qui parlent
September 2017

Tangente Fundraising Gala
L’Agora
April 12, 2017

AGM Cocktail Reception
Caisse de la Culture Desjardins
April 10, 2017

Open House
Benny Library
February 6, 2016

Odyscène Programming Launch
Place Rosemère
December 19, 2015

MPI Montréal Cocktail Reception
Conseil des arts de Montréal
October 28, 2015

Collaboration with kompani Raande-Vo (Sweden)
August 31 to September 7, 2015

Charles S. Campbell Park (Montreal)
August 18, 2015

Centre culturel de Châteauguay
March 21, 2015

Châteauguay Theatre
March 14, 2015

ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche (Toronto)
October 4, 2014

Culture Days (Toronto)
September 27, 2014

TNT Festival (Spain)
September 26 and 27, 2014

Summerworks Festival (Toronto)
August 15, 16 and 17, 2014

Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal)
July 20, 2014

Rue Saint-Paul, pedestrian-only area
Borough of Ville-Marie (Montreal)
July 17 and 24, 2014

Festival en chanson de Petite-Vallée (Gaspésie)
June 30 to July 5, 2014

Opening performance for Louis-Jean Cormier in concert
Théâtre du Marais (Val-Morin)
7 juin 2014

3, 2, 1. Encuentro Internacional de Nuevas Formas Escénicas (Spain)
May 29, 30 and 31, 2014

Sismograf Festival (Spain)
April 25, 26 and 27, 2014

Collaborators

ARTISTIC DIRECTION
Emmanuel Jouthe

CHOREOGRAPHY
Emmanuel Jouthe
in collaboration with the performers

ALTERNATE PERFORMERS (actual québécoise cast)
Pierre Bastien
Élise Bergeron
Mélia Boivin
Lila Geneix
Nicolas Labelle
Marie Lévêque
James Phillips
Jessica Serli
Carla Soto
Marilyne St-Sauveur

PERFORMERS (québécois cast since the creation)
Alex-Ann Boucher
Laurence Fournier Campeau
Rosie Contant
Sarah Dell’Ava
Lena Demnati
Frédéric Gagnon
Marie-Joël Haad
Eve Lalonde
Jean-François Légaré
Élodie Lombardo
Séverine Lombardo
Sonia Montminy
Alexandre Parenteau
Raphaëlle Perreault
Sébastien Provencher
Andrée-Anne Ratthé
Audrey Rochette
Kim Sanh Chau
Gabrielle Surprenant-Lacasse
Mélanie Thérrien
Anne Thériault
Andrew Turner

PREMIERE
2008

Booking

Yaëlle Azoulay
for Résonances
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Cultural mediation

DID YOU KNOW?
ÉCOUTE POUR VOIR has been the subject of many cultural mediation activities in various communities.

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