CONFESSION PUBLIQUE
MAYDAY / Mélanie Demers [Tiohtià:ke]
May 26-27, 2023
8 PM
Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie Street)
Presented by plastic orchid factory
An autobiographical solo with Angélique Willkie as its muse. The work takes on themes of privacy and secrecy, delving into the marshy depths of the psyche in a revolt against the vulgar self-exposure that bombards us every day. An examination of nobility and elegance in the ways we acknowledge our shortcomings, our flaws, and our manufacturing defects. Seeking confession as a poetic gesture, a necessity, a small concession to our vanity. An intimate dive into self-interrogation, revealing mysteries that form and structure what the work and what it confides in us. Introspection has no choice but to come face-to-face with its inevitable opponent — confession.
Ideation, direction and choreography, Mélanie Demers
Performers, Angélique Willkie and Anne-Marie Jourdenais
Dramaturgy, Angélique Willkie
Rehearsal director, Anne-Marie Jourdenais
Music, Frannie Holder
Scenography, Odile Gamache
Lighting design, Claire Seyller
Costumes, Elen Ewing
Technical director, Hannah Kirby
Production director, Mélanie Primeau
Special thanks, Éléonore Loiselle
photo (c) Angélique Willkie by Kevin Calixte
✨ Tickets are on a sliding scale. Pay what you can.
✨ Advanced registration is highly recommended.
The project is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Conseil des arts de Montréal.
We look forward to welcoming you to the show! :)
plastic orchid factory and Left of Main are located in the heart of Historic Chinatown on the unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) people. As artists that live, work and play on these lands, we strive to be allied with, learn from and acknowledge the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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