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What would Love Songs have been like in 2022, when notions of gender, queerness and sexuality are becoming more and more important in the general culture? The vocal collective Phth answers this question in a commission from Le Vivier by presenting a daring cinematic version of composer Claude Vivier’s Love Songs, which are full of colour, emotion and strange dimensions. Video, music, choreography and staging willingly tame the Love Songs brought up to date. Phth breaks the binary codes by celebrating a form of androgyny, gender ambiguity and sexuality. A queer side very much assumed by both the composer of the last century and the performers of today!
Rounding out the program is a screening of Light, a mono-opera composed by Jimmie LeBlanc that revisits a central moment in Montreal writer Klara du Plessis’ (South Africa/Canada) triptych Hell Light Flesh (2020), a poetic and narrative work in which a writer recalls, through creation, a moment of complicity with her mother, as the latter tried to protect her from the domestic violence her father inflicted on his older son.
Event Artists
PHTH- SARAH ALBU, ANDREA YOUNG, DAVID CRONKITE, GABRIEL DHARMOO, KATHY KENNEDY, ELIZABETH LIMA, VAHRAM SARKISSIAN. LIGHT- XIN WANG (soprano), ROB MACDONALD (guitare), ADELAIDE HALLADAY («Kid»), ZEKE ZHUANG (enfant de «Adult Kid»)La Semaine du Neuf: Projections: Love Songs + Light
Date/Time
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Location
Monument-National
1182 St Laurent Blvd
Montréal,
Canada,
Price
TBD/à déterminer
Phone
514-903-7794
Website
https://levivier.ca/fr/concert/saison-2022-23/projections-love-songs-light?mc_cid=3ebbc5342b&mc_eid=2034003ff7
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