Le Vivier at La Chapelle

Le Vivier presents the fourth edition of Semaine du Neuf. This year's theme, Music & Movement, highlights the dialogue between sound and the body, gesture and space. Semaine du Neuf will take place from February 27 to March 15, 2026, at several iconic venues in Montreal. At La Chapelle, you can discover two programs: On March 9, Portrait Uçanok-Ergün by The Bozzini Quartet The Bozzini Quartet presents an evening dedicated to the universes of Fulya Uçanok and Cenk Ergün, with a world premiere and a Canadian premiere. An electroacoustic musician, pianist, improviser, and researcher, Fulya Uçanok centers her work on embodied explorations of listening, performance, and composition. Drawing inspiration from sympoiesis, her artistic practice explores zones of connection within sound-related social interactions. Her new work for quartet and sound processing, resulting from a residency with the quartet, is a commission from the Bozzini Quartet and the New & Newest Festival Arter, with the support of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. On March 12, Protest of the Physical by lovemusic It is a performance in four tableaux. The musicians' bodies are not simply vehicles for instrumental execution but are completely engaged in an expressive physicality. They are both intrinsically linked to the music and its physical demands, and serve as a foil to emphasize the way gesture shapes our listening experience. By integrating artists from different disciplines into the creative process, by rethinking the role of the audience, and by asserting the body as a powerful tool of communication, the collective's performers thus boldly affirm their singular identity as performers. On March 14, a double bill of improvised music from both sides of the river: Du vivant - Tour de Bras & Totem Contemporain With its wild instrumentarium, meditative aspect, and sonic intensity, Du vivant is a kinetic and instrumental performance that recreates the dark universe of the film created by the artists in 2020 on an immense giant roll of paper like a photo ribbon. While the film evoked a half-fantastical, half-murky territory, the performance offers another reading: a poetic, musical, and kinetic performance (without a screen) that oscillates between photography, film, performance, pinhole camera, and improvised music. Au confluent des âmes - Nous perçons les oreilles & Frying Pan This concert brings together four visionary artists who share the same understanding of gesture, whether musical or physical. The duo Frying Pan, consisting of two great dancers Sarah Bild and Susanna Hood, joins the duo Nous perçons les oreilles, formed by the electrifying Jean Derome and Joane Hétu, known for their improvised and experimental music.