bang bang

bang bang won the CALQ award for best choreographic work of the 2016-2017 season as well as the 2017 Prix de la danse de Montréal (Montreal dance award) for individual performer, performer category (2017).   bang bang is a personal and universal contemporary ritual that allows the body to express itself at its most combative and desperate, at its most free. A present-day study about surpassing the oneself, bang bang is a staged work  creation for a kamikaze no-holds-barred soloist  on the theme of resistancethat has resistance as a theme. The work follows a score that is also an ordeal. It both literally and figuratively questions the notion of performance, from the space of representation to the metaphors of our contemporary Western pace of life. Progressively, sweat begins to trickle, faultlines become alive, the intimacy of being existence appears in the backgroundgradually dawns. The performer dances until he loses himself, until the why and the how stop making sense, until the necessity of presence has vanished. All the while, the spectators travethe audience travels along through kinesthetic empathy. No narrative, only a lonesome body, immersed in the exhilaration of an ordeal in which pleasure and suffering mix togetherintermingle and modestly discretely come to life in a paradoxical, ambiguous and multifaceted space. Presented as part of