A recent graduate from the Université du Québec à Montréal, Frédérick Gravel is already considered "one of the most promising artists of his generation" (VOIR, June 2003). Choreographer, performer and lighting designer, he makes the most of his various skills, and his work often mixes dance with musical performance. He collaborated with choreographer Dave St-Pierre as a guitar player and dancer on La Pornographie des âmes, and in 2004, he was awarded the Studio 303 Artiste en émergence residency for up-and-coming artists. He is also a founding member of La 2e Porte à Gauche, a production company dedicated to broadening the dance audience.

15 minutes of "fast-culture", cheap and accessible. Premiered in Montréal in September 2004.

"... a perceptive and irreverent look at hypocrisy in art"
(Stéphanie Brody, La Presse)

Choreography: Frédérick Gravel
Performers: Dave St-Pierre and Frédérick Gravel
Music: Petula Clark and Frank Sinatra

First presented in Montréal in September 2004 with six dancers and four musicians, this piece is an open question on the purpose of art. In this sense, it follows the line laid down by the choreographer's previous work, Plutôt divertissant, being a narcissistic work only concerned with itself. The concept of service provider - and beneficiary - is inherent to everything that happens within the framework of representational art. This work's only objective is to discuss it in a spirit of fun.

Choreography : Frédérick Gravel
Performers : Ivana Milicévic and Frédérick Gravel
Music : Jay-Jay Johanson and Jimi Hendrix

September 22, 5 PM, under the big top, at Marché Maisonneuve



Quevynn C. Gueule has been doing stuff since 1983. Quevynn's many appearances include Israel, Denmark, Guadeloupe, Cleveland, Montréal and Côte St. Luc - to name a few. Quevynn is so celebrated that even the Canada Council of the Arts has thrown money in this mega-star's direction!

Pier Paolo Pasolini and Yukio Mishima slept together. Their night of wild lovemaking has begotten an offspring - Quevynn C. Gueule. As always this freak is wandering around, trying to figure stuff out.

Choreography and performance: Quevynn C. Gueule

September 22, 5 PM, under the big top, at Marché Maisonneuve



Originally from Brittany, Jean-Sébastien Lourdais was introduced to contemporary dance at the Grymda center in France. From 1997 to 2001, he studied both performance and choreography at the Université du Québec à Montréal dance department, working for Daniel Desnoyers, Marie-José Rioux, Alexandra l'Heureux and Mia Maure. Lourdais then founded his own company, Défaut de fabrication, which has presented various works since 2002: Un Beau Matin du 21 juin at the Agora de la danse and at Espace émergence, Défaut de fabrication at Tangente and at FIND, as well as Règlement de compte and Le Lait de la vache at Tangente.

In this solo, Lourdais plays an excessive, nearly schizophrenic character who loses himself, with his organic and visceral movements, in an exaggerated tragicomic ride fueled by a stoical clown, where desires and taboos are confronted. Jean-Sébastien Lourdais' work focuses on the representation of dysfunction and social behavior, of stereotypes and of outsiders.

Choreography and performance : Jean-Sébastien Lourdais

September 22, 5 PM, under the big top, at Marché Maisonneuve