Notes de chevet
In collaboration with Compagnie musicale La nef
Claire Gignac: artistic direction, flutes, dizi (Chinese bamboo flute), bowed psalteries soprano, tenor and bass, voice.
Patrick Graham: multi-percussion, frame drums,taiko, gongs, porcelain bowls
Tomomi Morimoto: choreographer and dancer
Jean René: viola and guitar
Frédéric Auger: sound design and real-time sound processing
Projetblanc / Louis-Xavier Gagnon-Lebrun: lighting design
Premiere: 2010
Length: 60-minute
Shows:
2010. 09 Festival Transatlantique Montréal - Quartiers Danses / Montreal, QC
2011.04 Conseil des arts de Montréal en tournée / Montreal, QC
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Inspired by Makura no sōshi (The Pillow Book) by Lady Sei Shōnagon (Japan, around the year 1000), this show offers a real interaction between music, dance and poetry. Composition and improvisation are brought together to create original music influenced by Japanese aesthetics. Through different approaches - electronic, electric and acoustic - contemporary choreography and poetry alternate, intercalate and blend to create a unique three-dimensional production.
