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The German collective Rimini Protokoll presents a made-to-measure piece for Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations, a work that aims to paint a dynamic demographic portrait of Montreal, giving the city a very human face. 

For statistical purposes, people are regularly converted into pie wedges, bars and curves – which are then used to make political arguments or to create economic cost-benefit strategies. What if these statistics were given faces? What if Montréal’s population was represented on stage by 100 persons?

In a world bombarded with ‘lies, damned lies and statistics’ this cross-section of the society could tell the truth of modern Montréal’s life in a way graphs or pie-charts never could. Spreading throughout the city over three months ago, 100% Montréal began with the casting of one member who had to recruit another in 24 hours, who then recruited another and so on – all according to specific criteria of age, gender, household type, geography and ethnicity mirroring the demographic make-up of Canada's second largest city.

100% Montréal - a gathering that is a city, a group just beginning to experience itself, a choir that has never practiced, an impossible entity with many faces – assembled into ever-changing new group pictures: group pictures as replacement for family – as fleeting portraits of belonging. Who is missing? Who thinks they might give answers on stage that are different from the ones they’d give in response to a telephone survey or in the voting booth? And what have the statistics failed to record? Who lives in a completely different Montréal? Who thinks that this city is different because they are a part of it?

City of Montreal is one of the location-specific variants from around the world in which "100% City" was created in cooperation with local teams. The first “100% City” was staged in Berlin in 2008, and has since visited more than 35 cities, among them London, Paris, Marseille, Vienna, Cologne, Dresden, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Riga, Tokyo, Philadelphia, Sao Paolo and Melbourne. In each city Rimini Protokoll puts on a different show, which carries the city’s name in the Rimini Protokoll concept.

Concept: Rimini Protokoll (Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel)

Direction: Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi

Sound design: Frank Böhle

Live music: Navet Confit

Stage Design Adaption: Mascha Mazur, Marc Jungreithmeier

Technical director/ Lighting and projection design: Andreas Mihan

Performed by 100 Montrealers:

Benoit Van de Walle, Jessica Beaufort, Elric Martel, Brigitte Martel, Elliot Kamil Joly, Joanna Pamela Pastucha-Contreras,  Klaodja Salomon, Hanan Nasser, Darly Salomon, Joanie Salomon, Pascale Scipion Salomon, Laurence Legros, Maude Arsenault, Guy Arsenault, Sylvain Laquerre, Louis Levac, Rita Dubé-Lafreniére, Raymonde Dubé, Ginette Lapierre, Sylvian Shamy-Harbinson, Florentino Cabrita, Laura Anastacio, Jennifer Walsh, Jacklynn Bujold, Serena Vaillancourt, Olivia Horge, Micheline Boucer, Rita Kerevicius, Elena Rusinas, Justin Khan, Monivan Chhou, Liping Zhu, Xin Yan Li, Daphnée-Anne Takpanie, Patrich Landry, Lilianna Samson-Landry, Pierrette Morency, Marité Perron, Collette Quesnel, Lucile Poirier, Claudette Lafreniére, Gisela Frias, Amelia Valencia, Marjorie Forsyth, Wa Mukena Mukena, Dieudonné Zongia Koyawili, Malik Faisal Aslam, Céline Ngabu, Prakash Patel, Suzanne Wexler, Peter Pearson, Victor Drury, Eliot Drury, Elise Legault, Grace Shamy, Kahili Shamy-Ferguson, Alexandre Mathieu-Burke, Laura Mathieu-Burke, Emy Mathieu, Antoine Rebelo, Charline Gervais, Ella Billie Breslex Gervais, Walid Lakhdar Arabi, Julia Fimat, Pedro Contreras, Nathan Wong, Sharon Lopez, Valor Lopez, Christina Neill, Kyrie Neill-Jensen, Mindy Vockathaler, Jennifer Kwok-Choon, Slim Jbir, Johanne Letourneau, Maude Pelletier-Smith, Mathieu Gariépy, Surelys Perez Hernandez, Thiago Williams Quesada Perez, Vincent Lacroix, Gary Lacroix, Sanaà Malyadi, Amine Rachi, Adam Rachi, Kinane Rachi, Nafija Rahman, George Komborozos, Ilyas Komborozos, Yusuf Komborozos, Salih El Halaf, George Takkouz, Léa Bouthillette, Rolande Spénard, Pascale Perron, A.Hadi Qaderi, Majid Malekzadeh, Raphael Tavares, Yves Paris, Tan Dan Le, Patrice Dauzet, Alfred Pagé 

Presented by BMO Groupe financier

With the support of Goethe-Institut Montréal + Ministère des Affaires étrangères d'Allemagne

As part of L'Allemagne @ Canada 2017

Partners: de l'immigration à l'innovation + Fondation Cole in association with Société de la Place des Arts

Opening show of the 11th edition of thr Festival TransAmériques

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