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CLASH !

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Choregraphy : Harold Rhéaume

Audience: Ages 14 and up
Length60 minutes

Putting SHOW back in Dance

In CLASH !, self-contained scenes roll by as in a parade, by turns poignant, astounding and uproarious. Outlandish, comical and heartwarming characters — including a zany “little yellow riding hood”, a clumsy hockey player, two mischievous unidentified creatures and a wannabe Fred Astaire — show their true colours as they thrive for position in a world where the quest for fame is the only constant and the law of the jungle the only law.

Pop style, compelling visuals, lively and varied music: Le fils d’Adrien danse delivers the goods with CLASH !. 60 minutes of sheer pleasure, an emotional barrage that will shake up even the most blasé spectators.

To this day, CLASH ! is Le fils d’Adrien’s biggest success, with 43 performances in 24 theatres since it opened as a crowd favourite at the World Festival of the Arts for Young Audiences (Montreal) in 2005. Over the course of relentless touring CLASH ! has been a hit wherever it played: in large cities and small towns alike reactions range from laughter to stunned silence. CLASH ! leaves no one indifferent.

The show sold out Quebec City, Longueuil and Paspébiac, and garnered attention at the 2007 APAP conference in New York. In March, 2008 CLASH ! played, again to sold-out houses, at the LEAP Festival of Contemporary Dance in Liverpool, England.

The Audience Reacts

“Now THAT is art!”
“Funny, touching, fabulous.”
“Finally, a dance show for guys.”
“CLASH made me love dance again.”

“A true success. Choreography that feels fresh and new (…) overflowing with captivating touches (…) a highly rhythmical, fast-paced design (…) CLASH is sheer glee.”
— LA PRESSE

“CLASH ! holds you from the beginning to the end (…) Rhéaume understands how to communicate without words.”
— LE SOLEIL

“Pop energy that’s no stranger to subtlety or precision.”
— L’ACTUALITÉ

“Full of inspiration, always funny, and five dynamic performers.”
— VOIR

 

Residencies

August-September 2005 — Salle Multi • La Rotonde (Quebec City)
January 2005 — Salle Pauline-Julien (Sainte-Geneviève)
September 2004 — Théâtre de la Ville (Longueuil)



Credits

Dancers
Marilou Castonguay
Stéphane Deligny
Alan Lake
Manuel Shink
Arielle Warnke St-Pierre

Original Music
Mathieu Doyon

Additional Music
Glenn Gould
Rufus Wainwright

White Set
Janie Gagnon based on a Rebecca Belmore’s Blood on the snow original concept

Art Advisers
Christian Garon
Vano Hotton
Marie-Chantal Le Breton
Bernard White

Rehearsal Coach
J
ohanne Dor

Technical Staff
Caroline Ferland and Christian Garon

Other Team Members
Marie-Josée Bastien, Karine Cloutier, Karine Ledoyen, Annie Roy and Georges-Nicolas Tremblay

Video Capture
Denis Dubuc

Video Editing
Synonyme média

Photos
Jean-François Brière
David Cannon

Performances and tours

24 March to 17 April 2009 — Tour in Quebec

Théâtre Lionel-Groulx (Ste-Thérèse)
Centre des arts Juliette-Lassonde (St-Hyacinthe)
Centre d’arts La Petite Église (St-Eustache)
Salle Anaïs-Allard-Rousseau (Trois-Rivières)
Salle Georges-Codling (Sorel-Tracy)
Pavillon de l’Île (Festival Accès Danse • Châteauguay)
Maison de la culture Mercier-H.-Maisonneuve (Montréal)

15 March to 5 April 2008 — Tour in Quebec

Théâtre du Bic
Théâtre Hector-Charland (L’Assomption)
Salle de spectacles de Sept-Îles
Auditorium C.E. Pouliot (Gaspé)
Auditorium Mgr. Sevigny (Chandler)

11 March 2008 — Unity Theatre (LEAP Dance Festival • Liverpool, England)

2 February to 19 January 2007 — Tour in Quebec

Théâtre de Verdure (Montreal)
Festival du Trac (Paspébiac)
Théâtre Centennial (Sherbrooke)
Théâtre de la Ville (Longueuil)
Salle Pauline-Julien (Ste-Geneviève)
Théâtre Outremont
Salle Multi • La Rotonde (Quebec City)
Salle Albert-Dumouchel (Valleyfield)

20 January 2007 — Conférence APAP (New-York, United States)
21-25 March 2006 — Salle Multi • La Rotonde (Quebec City)
13 February 2006 — Auditorium Joseph-Lavergne (Bourse RIDEAU • Quebec City)
23-25 September 2005 — Espace Libre (Festival Mondial des Arts pour la Jeunesse (ASSITEJ) • Montreal)