26 November, 8 pm
Trafó - House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest, IX., Liliom u. 41.)
Dave St-Pierre: LA PORNOGRAPHIE DES ÂMES / Bare naked souls
First part of the Triptych: SOCIOLOGIE ET AUTRES UTOPIES CONTEMPORAINES
Second part : UN PEU DE TENDRESSE BORDEL DE MERDE!
By Dave St-Pierre
In association with
Eugénie Beaudry, Enrica Boucher, Genevieve Bélanger, Julie Carrier, Karina Champoux,
Francis Ducharme, Sarah Lefebvre, Véronique Lavallée, Camille Loiselle-D’Aragon, Eve
Pressault-Chalifoux, Julie Perron, Marie-Eve Quilicot, Emmanuel Schwartz, Patrick Simard
Alternatly: Emmanuelle Beaudoin-Bourassa, Luc Bouchard-Boissonneault, Émilie Gilbert, Alexis
Lefebvre, Gabriel Lessard, Aude Rioland, Éric Robidoux. Renaud Lacelle-Bourdon, Laura
Lacoste, David Laurin, Simon-Xavier Lefebvre, Sophie Dales, Gaëtan Viau, Anne Thériault,
Josianne Latreille
Technical director_ lighting designer : Alexandre Pilon-Guay
Stage manager_ Sound technician : Benoît Bisaillon
Video captation: Dave St-Pierre
Video editing : Alexandre Pilon-Guay
Music: Jeanne Moreau – Björk -Arvo Pärt – Tchaikovski – Bach – Verdi – Chopin – Cold Play
Rob Zombie -Nina Simone -Goran Bregovic -Olivia Newton-John -Demon Mosque
Blue -Maria Callas -Arianne Moffat -Josh Wink.
Text: Rodrigo Garcia -Yves Reynaud -Juan Pedro Guetierrez -Abdulah Sidran Cyril
Collard – Julie Carrier -Dave St-Pierre.
Suffering, pathos, disillusion, distress, solitude, powerlessness and the quest for the absolute
are the taboo themes and unmentionable questions that form the essence of his past works.
Once again, this indomitable artist is obsessed by these issues and seeks not to evoke or
suggest their presence under a veil of modesty, but to really show them – crudely, cruelly and
uncomfortably. The audience will most likely experience a certain discomfort when faced
with its own fantasies and grey zones, its voyeuristic or vulnerable aspects, as does the
performer, constantly on the alert and in an unstable position both during the artistic process
and during the performance.
In a series of fierce, corrosive scenes, a group of dancers with no equivocations and no taboos
rush headlong through a waltz in 26 movements that mixes all sorts of musical genres. For
Dave St-Pierre, there are no limits! With eyes wide open, he dares to present the naked truth.
DAVE’S WORD
This evening we will be presenting LA PORNOGRAPHIE DES ÂMES with all its
component parts -its naivety, exuberance, overlong passages and its simplicity. This
performance is a hymn to mankind, celebrating the beauty and the ugliness of the human race,
its profundity and its superficiality. Man is an ever-changing creature, an aimless being. Every
show is a risk, which is scary but invigorating. We build our lives with bits and pieces of this
and that. It is thus the duty of our dance piece to reflect this so simple yet so complex thing
that is life.
THANK YOU
To the artistic and production team surrounding me, a big thank you. Without you, this project
would never have come to terms. Thank you to George Skalkogiannis, Daniel Léveillé,
Marie-Andrée Gougeon, Suzanne Benoit for your time and advice. Thank you to Francis and
Enrica for translating my onomatopoeic words. Thank you to Francine Bernier and the whole
team at L’Agora de la danse, thank you to Dena Davida and the whole team at Tangente,
thank you to Chantal Pontbriand and Louise Matte. Thank you to Daniele de Fontenay and
Ginette Prévost from Usine C. Thank you to all the people who push me forwards, who give
me the momentum to keep going, especially when everything seems insurmountable.
But above all, thank you for believing in me, more than I would ever be capable of myself.
Co-producer :
Agora de la danse
This piece receives support from:
Conseil des Arts du Canada, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, L’Agora de la danse,
Tangente, le Ministere de la Culture et des Communications du Québec et le Ministere des
Relations Internationales.
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Dave St-Pierre Inc.
Artistic director
Dave St-Pierre
Production managers
Dave St-Pierre_George Skalkogiannis_Alexandre Pilon-Guay_Benoît Bisaillon_
Suzanne Benoit
dave.st.pierre@hotmail.com
Administration
Suzanne Benoit
Manager/ General director
George Skalkogiannis
memoranda60@hotmail.com
Administration assistant
Benoît Bisaillon
Tickets and more information: www.trafo.hu