About
A performance by Catherine Gignac
Ballet des ombres is a 45-minute artistic and poetic performance without words featuring live sand drawings relayed through a video projector. Moving in time with the music, Catherine creates ephemeral images in the sand. She works on a light table set before a live audience, as her creations come to life on a video projection screen. This creative fusion takes the audience on a magical visual adventure.
In a fast-paced world of technology and performance, Ballet des Ombres offers us a chance to rediscover slowness, the essentiality of nature, and contemplation, set against a backdrop of classical music, tango and opera. The use of sand as a medium allows for a continuous transformation of the images, creating a sense of surprise for the audience, who remain captivated from beginning to end.
Sand drawing lives in the moment. It has a random, ephemeral quality: each drawing is unique and changes from one performance to the next. Sand gives an impression of fragility and a particular grain to the image, making this art form all the more expressive.
[. . .] Catherine gave the story an extraordinary emotional power and made me cry at each of her appearances. I understood what it means to admire a work of art to the point of feeling that strange emotion in the presence of art, that moment when art transcends words to touch the soul. . .
– Stéphanie Girardeau, spectator, Frétillant et Agile
Language: Without words
Running time: 45 minutes
Technique: Sand theatre
Audience: Adults, accessible to youth 10 years +
TICKETS
FREE
Reservations required
MIAM – Maison internationale des arts de la marionnette
30 Saint-Just Avenue
Montréal (Québec) H2V 1X8
514-270-2717
TICKETS FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 24 – 3:30 p.m.
TICKETS FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 25 – 7 p.m.
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