Dave St-Pierre
Dave St-Pierre dances the way he lives, with the ardent desire to burn down the bridges that link him to too well-known territories, to the beaten tracks of a contemporary dance that he considers somewhat timid. He has always gone fast: in a few years, he has become one of the most endearing figures of North American choreography. Grant holder from the Ateliers de danse moderne de Montréal, he worked with the Brouhaha Danse company, then with Daniel Léveillé, thanks to whom he became renowned as an interpreter. He created his first works in the beginning of the 2000s. The Pornography of Souls in 2004 made a strong impression and led to a notable European tour. A Little Tenderness, for Crying out Loud! is the second part of a trilogy called Sociology and Other Contemporary Utopias. The whole, awaiting the last chapter, will form an exploration of the rites of contemporary love whose ethnologist Dave St-Pierre is, observing his strange tribe of men and women in need and in quest of desires, pleasures and encounters, as well as the choreographer who launches bodies against each other, with each other. He likes to strip these bodies bare and give them an energy that is sometimes primitive, often collective, without being afraid of placing them in an epic, violent, desperate but also burlesque or sentimental universe. There is a taste for the stage, the show, provocation here that allows him to transgress social and artistic codes. But there is also a great deal of attention, concern for the other, dispensed to each individual (interpreters and spectators), as though everything were finally linked in a great narrative of initiation: that of our curiosity about loving whereas it is sometimes so complicated.