Prism (2022)

With talent to spare and an abundance of imagination, the Canadian–Swedish creative duo deploys their tentacles in luminous spheres. They deepen their exploration of perception, illusion and the invisible, searching for what we cannot really grasp, what is hidden from words and the gaze. A quintet of dancers move between a reflective floor and movable mirror panels that they can manipulate from different angles. Kaleidoscopically multiplied tenfold, their bodies seamlessly unite and intermingle, in synergy with Höglund’s music. Prism opens up a myriad of possibilities, distorting perspec- tives and deconstructing movement into infinite combinations of colourful images. A dreamlike journey with a truly hypnotic effect.

“Personally, I very, very much freaked out over this visual feast. Indescribable, moreover, if not by an immoderate use of superlatives. It's a 60-minute getaway from the world as we know it. Proof that hallucinogenic drugs are superfluous and unnecessarily dangerous. We can leave our banal reality by the sole power of two choreographers, five dancers and a few well-sized mirrors”— François Houde, Le Nouvelliste

Choreography: Emmanuelle Lê Phan  & Elon Höglund

Performers: Emmanuelle Lê Phan, Elon Höglund, Rahime Gay-Labbé,  Céline Richard-Robichon, Mecdy Jean-Pierre

Set design: Charles Cormier

Set design adaptation: Rahime Gay-Labbé

Light design: Benoit Larivière

Music: Elon Höglund

Co-Production: Diagramme Gestion Culturelle & Danse Danse

With the support of:

Conseil des arts et des lettre de Québec
Conseil des arts du Canada
Conseil des arts de Montréal

And residency help from:
CCOV
Centre Culturel Notre-dame-des-prairies
Maison de la Culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce