Mille Anonymes

Hommage aux sociétés disparues

Compagnie Daniel Danis, arts/sciences /

Québec

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Living Souls
The “1000 Unknown” are unwavering combatants of everyday life, accepting isolation and symbiosis with nature rather than being displaced, their homes razed. The mine is shut down, there are no more jobs, no electricity – so be it, they refuse to be evicted. Their community will not become a ghost town. They will persist. They’re staying, intractable.

The language is brusque, laconic and symbolic, driven aloft like the north wind by the innovative, poetic blasts of the playwright. The bodies, framed by the set design and by close-ups projected on video screens, radiate in the shadows of a dream-like world of echo and evocation.

A powerful voice in contemporary Quebec theatre, Daniel Danis has written and directed this masterly portrait of a threatened society whose eccentric existence is coloured by danger and beauty.

Daniel Danis

Esteemed Poet
In 1993 Daniel Danis’ first play Celle-là received three prestigious awards and marked the beginning of a prolific and acclaimed career. This playwright, now living in Québec city, has since written a number of other plays, including Cendres de cailloux, Le Langue-à-langue des chiens de roche, Terre océane and last year’s Yukie, not to mention his plays for young audiences such as Kiwi and Bled. A recipient of three Governor General’s Awards and the Grand prix littéraire dramatique as well as other important distinctions, the lucid, poetic and very moving work of Daniel Danis has been performed not only in Canada, but also in Europe and Mexico.

Vision of the Future
The Daniel Danis arts/sciences company was established in 2006, a result of the playwright’s desire to include directing in the creative process initiated by the writing, and to explore the myriad staging possibilities offered by technology. The company’s plays, including La trilogie des flous, Kiwi and Yukie, are veritable artistic laboratories where the barriers dividing cinema, theatre and the visual arts are abolished in order to achieve a beauty of word and image that is both dreamlike and innovative. The company has been in artistic residence at La Caserne in Quebec City since 2009.

Press Quote(s)

« Dramaturge célébré, Daniel Danis a entamé, depuis quelques années, une exploration scénique qui allie technologie, son, parole et images, où il transpose l'acte d'écrire devant public et fait de l'espace scénique une immense page d'écriture. (…)

Danis a une langue de cendre, de cailloux, tribale, animale, sauvage et déchirée qui, lorsqu'elle passe du papier au ventre des acteurs, a le don de remuer les os, de traverser les chairs et de faire surgir, en soi, «l'humaine nature» dans ce qu'elle a de plus profond: la peau. (…)

Dans ce Yukie, l'écran et l'espace scénique tiennent lieu de peau, et les acteurs sont, malgré un travail remarquable, des éléments d'écriture, des ombres parmi les ombres, des palimpsestes narratifs. »

Sylvie Nicolas, Le Devoir, 08/06/2010 (À propos du spectacle Yukie)

Credits

PRODUCED BY COMPAGNIE DANIEL DANIS, ARTS/SCIENCES

WRITTEN AND CREATED BY DANIEL DANIS PERFORMED BY SYLVIO ARRIOLA + FRÉDÉRICK BOUFFARD + JEAN-PIERRE CLOUTIER + MARIANNE MARCEAU + ALEXANDRINE WARREN ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTORS LIONEL ARNOULD + NADIA BELLEFEUILLE + STÉPHANE CARON + JEAN-PIERRE CLOUTIER + JEAN-FRANÇOIS LABBÉ + VINCENT LECLERC (ESKI) + VÉRONIQUE MASSÉ + MATHIEU THÉBAUDEAU

COPRODUCTION FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES + LES PRODUCTIONS RECTO-VERSO + EX MACHINA LA CASERNE DALHOUSIE + CARREFOUR INTERNATIONAL DE THÉÂTRE DE QUÉBEC

PRESENTED IN ASSOCATION WITH ESPACE GO

WRITTEN BY SOPHIE POULIOT TRANSLATED BY NEIL KROETSCH