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Onde de choc: Ginette Laurin’s upcoming creation
Montreal, February 16, 2010 – Following the success of the re-creation of La Chambre Blanche on several continents, choreographer Ginette Laurin is preparing her next creation, Onde de choc (Shock Wave). In this new work, she has once again directed her sensitivity to exploring the mysteries of the astonishing human machine, and this time, her focus is on the inherent sonorities of the body.
The world premiere of Onde de choc will take place at Festival TransAmériques in Montreal, from May 28 to 30.
2009: a dizzying year for o vertigo
Montreal, December 4, 2009 – From Montreal to Munich and from Milan to Guanajuato with stops in Marseilles and Tokyo, dance company O Vertigo has clocked thousands of kilometres this year, presenting two of Ginette Laurin’s major works: La Chambre Blanche (re-creation 2008) and a remounted production of La Vie qui bat (1999).
o vertigo is off to Japan to present la vie qui bat
Montreal, September 28, 2009 – After her 2008 re-creation of La Chambre Blanche, one of her most powerful choreographical works, Ginette Laurin will reprise the original version of La Vie qui bat. The work is ready to premiere this October 5 at the fourth edition of Dance Triennale Tokyo, one of Japan's biggest dance festivals.
a remarkable success for la chambre blanche (re-creation 2008)
Montreal, August 31, 2009 – La Chambre Blanche (re-creation 2008) continues to gather momentum, heading to Europe a fifth time as part of the Festival Oriente Occidente. After its much-noticed passage through almost a dozen major European cities, La Chambre Blanche will be presented in the northern Italian city of Trento on September 7 and 8, at the highly-regarded Festival Oriente Occidente.
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" Laurin's constant courage and open-mindedness are qualities that mark O Vertigo, impelling it to take new risks with the playful fearlessness its name implies." Linde Howe-Beck, Dance International, Fall 2006
onde de choc
"A profusion of ideas and images bring out the intense curiosity that 30 years of an active career have not diminished [...] Onde de choc continually alternates between storm and calm. But throughout, Laurin uses contrasts of energy, shadows and light, gentleness and violence, in pockets of simultaneous action." Stéphanie Brody, La Presse, May 30, 2010
"The visual concept of Onde de choc (is) irreproachable. Resolutely inventive, the construction of the piece is both rigorous and poetic; the movements of the eight dancers are fluid, harmonious, and possess an agreeable narrative aspect. Martin Labrecque’s lighting is pure magic. A stirring sound dimension is created by the music of British composer Michael Nyman [...] and the electro-acoustic works of Martin Messier. [...] A true success, Onde de choc will carry knowledgeable audiences and novices along in the same wave." Nathalie de Han, La Scena Musicale, May 30, 2010
La Vie qui bat (revival 2009)
"The choreography by Ginette Laurin connected the dancers through its organic movements, an the whole stage pulsated." Takao Norikoshi, DDD (dancedancedance), Tokyo, January 2010
La Chambre Blanche (re-creation 2008)
"Imprinted by personalities of a rare charisma, brusque movements and a masterful fusion of disciplines, [...] this piece resonates differently according to each person's sensibilities. But it is an indisputably dense work." D.B., La Marseillaise, Marseille, June 2009
"[...] the work shows the characteristics of a 'classic': its compact, rigorous composition opens the way to a profuson of sociopolitical, philiosophical and psychological associations." Ballettanz, Octobre 2008
"Laurin takes not only her dancers on a roller coaster of emotions and nervous ticks, but quickly draws the audience in as well. It’s a balancing act, like that of the performers as they dance along the narrow ledge between floor and wall: these are extreme situations and states of uncertainty, powerfully depicted by Laurin. Her mastery is especially evident in the transitions, some flowing and others abrupt, all perfectly matched by the score and lighting. [...] the “recreation” [...] pays off: the audience loved it."
"Very few choreographical works [...] can be seen or seen again outside of the period in which they were created. [...] La Chambre Blanche by Canadian Ginette Laurin is an example of a dance piece that has done this very successfully." Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfort, March 2008
ÉTUDE #3 POUR CORDES ET POULIES
“The metaphor of the connections that join us and keep us apart is rendered in visually breathtaking tableaus.” Frédérique Doyon, Le Devoir, Montreal, Canada, March 9 2007
Angels
"What's great about the artistry in ANGELs is that Laurin has repositioned herself, imbuing the work with an unobtrusive tone, yet one that is undeniably personal, human and true."
Passare, or Another shape for infinity
A sensitive and infinite revelation "Invention in every step, poetry in every intention, and tenderness in every gesture: Ginette Laurin's choreography is a sensitive and infinite revelation." La Voix du Nord, Lille, France, April 10 2004 |
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Dancing by traces "A trajectory drawn on the table and reproduced, the image reworked, the memories distorted: the processes are diverse, well chosen and extremely well done. Sets and costumes are devilishly inventive and sophisticated to a fault. Nevertheless, it's when the choreography abandons this whole conceptual apparatus that its point is most clearly pertinent—when this shattering, soaring dance abruptly breaksoff—that we feel the magic of this research on the dancer's traces." Philippe Verrièle, Le Journal des spectacles, Paris, May 2004 |
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"Movement, light, color, shadow, darkness-everything in Passare comes together to create images that takes the viewer on a journey into the realm of things unimaginable because unproven." Was ist los?, Linz, Austria, April 19 2004 |
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"Laurin's inventiveness is O Vertigo's primary attraction. She played upon trace elements of memory in Passare, and how they intertwined and altered form in a sometimes clever, sometimes poignant, nearly always surprising fashion." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, May 17 2004 |
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"It's about the brevity of life. About the way we stagger through its rapid pace like remote-controlled puppets, trying to catch a breath or a moment of rest. But in the background, the clock ticks relentlessly on, and someone is counting down to the finish. And that's one of the most impressive moments in this intense and gesturally rich choreography. As one dancer counts from 0 to 127 in time with the clock, the dancers move at breakneck speed, hurtling into one another and pushing each other away, falling and scrambling back up-only to be asked by the timekeeper just how they were feeling at 122." OÖNachrichten, Linz, Austria, April 19 2004 |
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"moments of shivering beauty that brush the sublime." |
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"Ginette Laurin's company performs with energetic appeal a complexity of movement sequences. What's most impressive, apart from the dancing itself, is Laurin's use of space. Here, she is veritably an architect of space, working with an immense depth of field, carving the space with her dancing bodies." |
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BOOK
Anatomie du vertige. Ginette Laurin : vingt ans de création
Anatomie du vertige follows Ginette Laurin's artistic progression from her debut as a dancer with the Groupe Nouvelle Aire up to her latest choreographical creations. It is an art book as well as a work of reference, offering an accessible introduction to this artist's visual and sensory world.
Under the direction of Michèle Febvre, with the collaboration of Guylaine Massoutre, and with a foreword by Denis Marleau.
Published by Les Heures Bleues, Montréal, 2005 Format: 21,5 X 28 cm | 126 pages | 39,95 $
Ginette Laurin, Profession : chorégraphe
Henri Barras, Montréal, Éditions Mnémosyne, 195 p., 1995
MUSIC
étude #3 pour cordes et poulies original music composed by Nicolas Bernier and Jacques Poulin-Denis
Music of Déluge, La Bête and Passare
CDs $18
OTHER ITEMS
O Vertigo 20th Anniversary T-shirts $20 Men's: M, L
Order directly from O Vertigo: e-mail us your order details and your name, address and telephone number.
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Newsletter, May 2010 Newsletter, February 2010 Newsletter, December 2009
La Chambre Blanche (re-creation 2008).pdf étude#3 pour cordes et poulies.pdf The Resonance of the double.pdf O Vertigo Creation Centre.pdf
Archives – 2006-2007 SEASON
Montreal, March 12, 2007 LAB N°9: COLLECTIVE BODY
Montreal February 14, 2007 O VERTIGO INTENSIVE WORKSHOP
Montreal, November 14, 2006 O VERTIGO AT THE THÉÂTRE OUTREMONT
Montreal, October 16, 2006 EUROPEAN PREMIERE OF THE RESONANCE OF THE DOUBLE
In Germany later this month, O Vertigo will first present ANGELs at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt, together with excerpts of The Resonance of the Double. The complete version of The Resonance will follow at Tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf. .
Montreal, August 28, 2006 LAB N°8: BODY AND LIGHT
Montreal, August 21, 2006 A LOOK AT THE 2006-2007 SEASON
Archives – 2005-2006 SEASON
Montreal, May 15, 2006
Montreal, March 20, 2006
Montreal, March 20, 2006
Montreal, February 9, 2006
Montreal, January 23, 2006
Montreal, October 18, 2005
Montreal, September 6, 2005
Montreal, September 6, 2005
Archives – 2004-2005 SEASON
Montreal, February 7, 2005
Montreal, January 31, 2005
Montreal, September 29, 2004
Montreal, September 18, 2004
Montreal, September 14, 2004
Montreal, March 17, 2004 |
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