Anne Plamondon Returns To Danse Danse With The World Premiere of MYOKINE

Anne Plamondon returns to Danse Danse with the world premiere of MYOKINE, a unifying exploration of the body as a source of resilience, beauty and hope in the face of the urgent need for action that characterizes our times. Presented November 14-18 at the Place des Arts' Cinquième Salle.

A true ode to hope and to the body's vital strength, a refuge of infinite intelligence, MYOKINE seeks to shed light on the duality we may feel in wanting to live a fulfilled life in a world where, at times, everything seems to be falling apart.

Myokines are molecules secreted by the muscles when the body is in motion, often called "hope molecules" for the feeling of well-being and optimism they provide. Anne Plamondon seized upon the myokine formation process as she sought to understand how the body, faced with the proliferation of complex and troubling issues in our time, reacted to this often overwhelming reality. For her, it embodied dance's essential function of releasing tension, emotions and anxiety, and giving meaning to the imperfections that lend existence both strength and vulnerability.

Following her acclaimed solos and duets Les mêmes yeux que toi (2012), Mécaniques nocturnes (2017) and Seulement toi (2022), Anne Plamondon expands her dance outside of her own body to make way for an energetic septet of pan-Canadian performers. Using a multifaceted language developed over the course of the choreographer's eclectic career, the dancers progress with precision and virtuosity through a stripped-back scenography. Dancing to the hypnotic music of Ouri Riou and Olivier Fairfield, they demonstrate through the strength of their united bodies our ability to transcend, together, the anger provoked by adversity and injustices of our daily lives.

About Anne Plamondon

Anne Plamondon is a choreographer, performer, teacher and curator. In a brilliant career that has taken her around the globe, she has danced for some of the world's greatest companies. She made her choreographic debut with the solo Les mêmes yeux que toi (2012), created in collaboration with director Marie Brassard. Since founding her company Anne Plamondon Productions, her work has been presented at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Jacob's Pillow, the Guggenheim and Live Arts in New York, and broadcast on CBC and Télé-Québec. More recently, she has choreographed for Alberta Ballet, Ballets Jazz Montréal (BJM), and Arts Umbrella.

Classically trained at the National Ballet School of Canada and the Banff Centre for the Arts, with a degree from the École supérieure de danse du Québec in 1994, Anne Plamondon first joined Les Grands Ballets Canadiens before pursuing her career with Nederlands Dans Theater and Gulbenkian Ballet, performing choreographies by Jiří Kylián, Hans Van Manen, Johan Inger, Ohad Naharin, Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon. She has also worked with Marie Chouinard, James Kudelka, Serge Denoncourt, Marcos Morau, and Ina Christel Johannessen, and collaborated with the circus company Les 7 doigts de la main.

Between 2006 and 2015, she danced with Crystal Pite and her company Kidd Pivot in four creations, including the duet A Picture of You Falling, winner of a Laurence Olivier Award in 2015. She joined Victor Quijada in 2002, first as a performer, then as co-artistic director of RUBBERBAND, from 2006 to 2015.

Committed to transmitting dance to the next generation, she is involved as a teacher in several training institutions, including the École supérieure de ballet du Québec, the École de Danse de Québec, the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal, and Arts Umbrella Dance, and has been acting as commissioner for dance at Domaine Forget de Charlevoix since 2018. In 2023, she benefited from the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards-PGGAS Mentorship Program under the mentorship of Margie Gillis. That same year, she created MYOKINE, a group work for seven performers, which had its world premiere at Danse Danse.

 

Danse Danse, an associate presenter at Montreal's Place des Arts, invites you to discover the best of contemporary dance from here and abroad in the heart of the Quartier des spectacles. Since its foundation in 1998, Danse Danse has offered a diversified program, rooted in the 21 stcentury, of new creations and landmark works from the contemporary repertoire. Danse Danse proudly contributes to the international outreach of Montreal, capital of dance and metropolis of movement.

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