Montreal-based Compagnie Marie Chouinard is a firm fixture on the international dance scene, renowned for artistic director Marie Chouinard’s distinctive choreographic style, which explores the poetics of the body in immediate, intelligible and ever-surprising ways.

In this hypnotic work the company’s 14 dancers explore themes of beauty and freedom, often appearing en pointe: on one, two and even four at a time.

Chouinard uses different devices – crutches, rope, horizontal bars and harnesses – that by turns liberate, restrain and define the dancers’ movements. This use of accessories gives rise to playful explorations of body shape and gestures, painting a startling metaphor for the human condition.

Set to a soundtrack by electro-acoustic musician Louis Dufort, which mixes Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations with vocal extracts of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_ vARIATIONS is a highly emotive, visually stunning work of stark contrasts; subtle and extravagant, sumptuous and wild.

bODY_rEMIX / gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS contains nudity. Theatregoers younger than five years old will not be admitted.

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