Photo © Michael Pinault
The CCOV is proud to announce that choreographer Alan Lake has joined the Centre as an Associate Artist. This alliance stems from the CCOV’s commitment to support promising artists by providing them with the administrative and logistical resources needed to achieve their creation, production and presentation objectives.
CONTACT
E-mail: laankale@hotmail.com
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Agent :
Brent Belsher
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L’effritement des parades
Each of Alan Lake’s stage creations is the fruit of a rigorous hybrid exploration in three stages, where movement, images, visual art and original music interact and enrich each other in a subtle alchemy. Between fable and allegory, L’effritement des parades, freely inspired by the myth of Persephone—goddess of the underworld, associated with the cycle of the seasons, life and resurrection—is a symbolist odyssey in which delirious imaginings, eroded ambitions and disenchanted ideals come aground. A voluptuous and exuberant dance unfolds. Is it a bacchanal, a pagan ritual, a primitive ceremony? When the parade of appearances falls away, something true and luminous emerges from these extravagant chimeras, bringing us back to the very essence of being. Strangely beautiful.
Danse Danse
Photo credit: Sébastien Durocher
Performer: Esther Rousseau-Morin
CREDITS
World Premiere October 15, 2021, Théâtre Hector Charland – L’Assomption.
Creation Alan Lake (Associate artist of Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV).
Choreography Alan Lake, with the dancers.
Dancers Odile-Amélie Peters, Fabien Piché, David Rancourt, Esther Rousseau-Morin.
Musical conception and music on stage Antoine Berthiaume.
Lighting Chantal Labonté.
Set Design Julie Lévesque, Alan Lake.
Artistic Councelor Olivier Normand Laplante.
Production Diretor André Houle – CCOV.
Photography Nicolas Padovani, Sébastien Durocher.
Executive Producer Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV (Montreal).
An Alan Lake Factori[e] production co-poduced by Danse Danse and Diffusion Hector Charland (L’Assomption).
Artistic Residency La Rotonde (Québec), Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV (Montreal).
Agents Brent Belsher & Sophie Brassard (Belsher Arts Management).
Alan Lake Factori[e] is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts du Québec and the Entente de développement culturelle de la Ville de Québec.
PARADES
Five artists on stage
Presented at la Caserne Dalhousie by La Rotonde
With the work Parades, Alan Lake Factori(e) reconnects with the in situ mode of creation which gave us the play Les Caveaux in 2016. For this new opus, four performers and a musician will take over the Caserne Dalhousie. They will inhabit, transform and magnify this atypical space in an exploration of movement and matter.
Deeply imbued with their environment, these humans will engage in an elusive symbolist narrative made up of doctored imaginaries, eroded ambitions, disenchanted ideals, sabotaged hegemonies. The result: a dance which – by traversing the architectonics of the place and mixing with the natural elements – entangles the jubilant movements linked to the pagan festivals of abundance and the sense of urgency engendered by the topicality of the environmental crisis.
After all this time on a forced break, we realize that beyond the futile parade of appearances, which crumbles when adversity strikes, a more visceral parade, a frenzied and sacred ode celebrating the cycle of life-death-life is revealed. Fusing from these alterations, something luminous, raw, real, brings us back to the immanence of being in its powerful sobriety.
Photo credit: Nicolas Padovani
Performer: Odile-Amélie Peters
CREDITS
Performers: David Rancourt – Fabien Piché – Esther Rousseau-Morin – Odile Amélie Peters /
Music: Antoine Berthiaume – live music
Rehearsal director: Jessica Serli
Lighting: Keven Dubois
Scenography: Julie Lévesque
Technical director: Patrick Paquet
Production director: André Houle
Executive producer: Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV (Montréal)
Agents: Brent Belsher & Sophie Brassard (Belsher Arts Management)
Support: Conseil des arts du Canada, du Conseil des arts du Québec, Entente de développement culturelle de la Ville de Québec.
LE CRI DES MÉDUSES
Ten artists on stage / Quebec
World Premiere, March 20, 2018 – Cinquième salle, Place des Arts
After Là-bas, le lointain, Ravages et Les caveaux, Alan Lake continues to develop his multidisciplinary approach by engaging his choreographic language and sensitivity to visual arts in a play for 9 dancers and a live musician, inspired by Géricault’s Le Radeau de la Méduse and the state of emergency experienced by the shipwrecked people in the famous painting. Le Cri des Méduses takes place in an invented place, thrusting us into a terrifying dream-fantasy—an edgy physical dance like a pagan ritual, jolted by the images of a powerful scenography. Le Cri des Méduses is a waking dream, a dance of life, of survival.
CALENDAR Le cri des méduses | 2018
March 20 – 24 : World premiere
Montreal, Danse Danse – Cinquième salle, Place des Arts
April 4 & 5 : Quebec, Grand Théâtre de Québec and Rotonde
April 25 : Victoriaville, Le carré 150
CREDITS
Creation: Alan Lake
Choreography: Alan Lake, with the creative collaboration of the performers
Performers: Kimberley de Jong, Jean-Benoit Labrecque, Louis-Elyan Martin, Fabien Piche, David Rancourt, Genevieve Robitaille, Esther Rousseau Morin, Josiane Bernier and Odile-Amelie Peters.
Live Music: Antoine Berthiaume
Lighting: Karine Gauthier
Rehearsal coach: Annie Gagnon (Montreal)
Scenography: Marilène Bastien and Alan Lake
Costume design: Marilène Bastien
Production Direction: André Houle, Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV
Technical Direction: Antoine Caron
Photos: Daniel Richard
Delegate Producer : Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV (Montréal)
Production : Alan Lake Factori(e) – Coproduction : Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV, Danse Danse.
Creation support – Residencies : Place des Arts, La Rotonde, La Maison pour la danse de Québec et Danse à la Carte
GRATTER LA PÉNOMBRE
Five artists on stage / Quebec City
World Premiere, February 7, 2019 – Maison pour la danse
CREDITS
Creation: Alan Lake
Choreography: Alan Lake, with the creative collaboration of the performers
Performers: Fabien Piché, David Rancourt, Esther Rousseau Morin and Arielle Warnke St-Pierre.
Live Music: Antoine Berthiaume
Lighting: Bruno Matte
Rehearsal coach: Jessica Serli
Scenography: Marilène Bastien and Alan Lake
Scenography support: Véronique Bertrand
Production Direction: André Houle, Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV
Technical Direction: Antoine Caron
Photos: François Gamache
Delegate Producer : Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV (Montréal)
Production : Alan Lake Factori(e) – Coproduction : Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV, Danse Danse.
Creation support – Residencies : Place des Arts, La Rotonde, La Maison pour la danse de Québec
CALENDAR Gratter la pénombre | 2019
February 7 – 16 : World premiere
Quebec City – La Rotonde: La maison pour la danse
BIOGRAPHY
Alan Lake Factori(e) is a multidisciplinary contemporary dance company created and promoted in 2007 by choreographer and director Alan Lake. Lake has developed an approach that combines dance, film and visual arts. This crossover directly contributes to defining the company’s unique language, creating crude and symbolist universes in which the human evolves totally impregnated by its environment. Alan Lake Factori(e) is entirely dedicated to the creation and distribution of choreographic works, installations and dance films that showcase this interconnection between the moving body, the space it occupies, and the cycle of life and death that underlies them. The company is also dedicated to promoting contemporary dance and choreographic research through performances, workshops, workshops, conferences and other related activities.