MEDIATHEK

A disturbing universe removed from reality, a place beyond reason. A work that is part in situ performance and part installation art that journey in unusual places such as an indoor parking lot and a ballroom. The trio of dancer and choreographer Paul-André Fortier, visual artist/writer/performer/musician Rober Racine and filmmaker Robert Morin came together for Cabane. The shack in question is a real, portable and readily convertible hut. It is a world unto itself - a shelter, a workshop, a screen or perhaps a mausoleum - enmeshed in spaces strongly evocative of luxury, poverty and artifice. A man dances a musical score of words and takes the measure of his territory while a musician (Racine) plays mesh-sprung box springs and, thanks to images created by Morin, a vulture takes flight. Ordinary objects lose their conventional designation as a door, walls and windows open up to a surrealist world. The stage technicians are visible under the simplified lighting of John Munro. A gibe at technological overkill? Paul-André Fortier has been travelling the world for the past five years with Solo 30x30 (2006), exposed to the vagaries of the weather and the gaze of passersby - their indifference or their curiosity, their admiration, mockery or desire. (...) A dancing itinerant of no fixed address. (Quelle: fortier-danse.com) frm