Youngnesse

Bilingual show Youngnesse is a reflection on the political energy of youth. Dance, theatre, music, performance and visual art come together in a series of tableaux about a generation galvanized by the transformative potential of collective action. What kind of future can we imagine, realistically? When we cannot decide whether to shout, protest, withdraw, or escape, the only defense mechanism left is the energy we have. Live on stage with projets hybris, you'll see the band DRY SEC, newly formed by members of VICTIME and Technical Kidman. Youngnesse is youth torn between utopian idealism and nihilistic disillusionment. It’s the despair and anger caused by the suppression of marginalized ideas, but also a celebration of innovation and invention that emerge from struggle. With a physical language that is mutable, intense, and unstable, bodies manifest utopian imaginings that dissipate as quickly as they are formed. Eschewing narrative for a performative mode, alternative hopes and dreams coalesce into an acerbic, vital, luminous riposte to an unbearably morbid status quo. Sept. 27 at 6pm: LITERARY DISCUSSION BEFORE THE SHOW Youngnesse has received financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Conseil des arts de Montréal, and was offered creative residencies at Hexagram-UQAM, La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines, Espace Cercle carré and at the Carrefour culturel de Notre-Dame-des-Prairies.   Show presented in partnership with