Two women try to stay true to themselves. Trapped in the middle of a videographic fresco in which their image is multiplied and shattered, they ape and compulsively replay their own image so that they don’t completely dissolve. However, their hopes are poorly aligned with their destiny as they are continuously ahead or behind themselves. In close succession, the presence of key women comes to their rescue (Marguerite Duras, Chantal Akerman, Martha Rosler, Amy Greenfield, Maya Deren, Lygia Clark), but their murmurings eventually recede into the distance. You may call this subterfuge.

An original work, Singeries is nothing but a rerun. A continual rerun of ourselves, a rerun of gestures of other women that seem to have anticipated ours. It is a project with no origin, but rather a face-to-face that is ceaselessly renewed. It is an extension of our friendship, and our friendship could be this : a meeting that is neither successful nor deceitful but solely and continuously renewed, an encounter as a refrain.

We cling to each other sometimes without knowing why, a ceaseless dialogue and a weariness of having to dialogue. We can forsee ourselves redoing this piece every ten years until we die.

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Presented in world premiere in February 2016 in Montreal at Usine C / Co-presented by Tangente + Festival Temps d’Images

PERFORMANCE 2019

MAY 3, 2019 / FINDHORN, SCOTLAND
At the RISE Festival (Dance North Scotland) in Findhorn

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 / MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA
At Quai 5160 – Maison de la culture de Verdun

SEPTEMBER 18, 19, 2019 / ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
At the Art of Performing Festival – Theatre Rotterdam

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019 / TILBURG, NETHERLANDS
Extract presented at DansBrabant – Theater De Nieuwe Vorst

OCTOBER 8, 9, 10, 11, 2019 / QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
At La Rotonde

PERFORMANCE 2021

NOVEMBER 11, 12, 13, 2021 / OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA
At La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins

OCTOBER 17, 2021 / SAINTE-ANNE-DES-MONTS, QUEBEC, CANADA
At Maison de la culture

AUGUST 26, 27, 28, 2021 / BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
Festival international des Brigittines