INDEEP

The performance will take place from 11:30 to 21:30 at Paper Factory (141 Ann street, Montréal). The public can arrive whenever, no reservations. Pay what you can.  INDEEP is not a show, it’s an experience. You won’t be spectators. You'll be witnesses. Inspired by the desire to utilize contemporary choreography as a means of engagement with “marginalized” people, INDEEP invites us into an experiential, durational encounter with 10 individuals, all blindfolded and cordoned off together for 10 hours. INDEEP consists of an array of youth from the fringes of society, who each bring forth their own personal stories allowing us to bear witness through their expressions in all their singularity, in their authentic restraint – to be able to listen to, connect with and feel their inner individual and collective narratives. Unrestrained, without limitations or illusions they deliver an explosive cathartic energy one which emanates raw power from their lived experience. INDEEP is a fascinating transformative performance that challenges and unsettles our shared expectations of the human condition, the body in motion, breaking through social norms without explanation, judgement, predetermined boundaries or codes. What are the fundamental interactions that are made between humans when our sense of sight is removed, when physical touch is heightened and our other essential primeval senses are exposed? What happens within us when we stop, look, and give ourselves over to the role of the observer, even when there is nothing to observe. In this form of finality who is observing whom, when we come face to face with “the other" and our own existence. Aurélie Pedron thanks Danse Danse and La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines for their support with this project.