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Catherine Gaudet
Amuse-gueule
dance
duration : 0h55rates : from 17$ to 45$PremiereST
No textMonday, May 11, 2026
JF
19h30
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
19h30
Thursday, May 14, 2026
19h30
Friday, May 15, 2026
19h30
Saturday, May 16, 2026
15h00
Amuse-gueule is built on the contrast between dream and the cruelty of reality. A few steps sketched out, repeated, refined, refined... like a knife sharpened to, this time, cut fate in one's favour. Amuse-gueule is a phantom choreography. It hesitates to such an extent that it almost disappears. A hymn of persistence and resistance, or a soul devoured by ambition? The muscle is lively, but the eye is moist... The walls are closing in, but the outside is so vast that one gets lost in it. Each step is an attempt, a breath on the embers of what is—as yet—alive. It is no longer a repetition: it is an obsession. Something must give. Or all at once.
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Catherine Gaudet
Catherine Gaudet probes the complexity and ambiguity of the psyche and inscribes its contradictions onto the body. She depicts an elusive reality, developing a universe made of innumerable, evolving identities. Her dance is a descent into oneself, a pursuit of the layers within, which contain and constitute these perpetually evolving identities. She created her first choreographic work in 2004. She has since created eleven long-form and several short-form works, presented both in Québec and abroad. Today, Catherine is the artistic and general director of the Compagnie Catherine Gaudet, a member of Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique, associate creator at DLD – Daniel Léveillé Danse and associate artist at Agora de la danse.