Vivarium occupies Tangente!

Help us remount the performance Vivarium for indoor spaces in Montréal and beyond!

Project visual Vivarium occupies Tangente!
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06/11/2017
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$CAD3.160
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Caisse Desjardins de la Culture supports the project Vivarium occupies Tangente!Tangente supports the project Vivarium occupies Tangente!

Vivarium occupies Tangente!

<p><em><strong>In partnership with Desjardins Caisse de la Culture and KissKissBankBank, Tangente is proud to kick start an innovative project aimed at supporting artists. </strong></em></p><p> </p><p><em><strong>Eight artists from Tangente’s next season received a training session provided by Desjardins Caisse de la Culture and Nathalie Courville, KissKissBankBank’s Canadian ambassador, who is an expert in communications and funding in the culture field. HEC Montréal was also part the training with Professor Renaud Legoux who gave a workshop about marketing of cultural industries.</strong></em></p><p> </p><p><em><strong>The artists are entirely responsible for the planning and the management of their own campaigns, and Desjardins Caisse de la Culture adds 500$ to the first 1000$ the artists raise.</strong></em></p><p> </p><p><strong>VIVARIUM</strong></p><p> </p><p>A cyclic and playful meditation, VIVARIUM is a poetic allegiance to the unsung life persisting in neglected spaces.You are invited to visit a site where artists give their attention to detail, bending to weeds, bricks, and bugs. Two dancers oscillate limbs and torsos like Coleoptera or heliotropic plants — they jostle, camouflage, and compost. A musician plays field recordings, weaving a soundscape. A scenographer creates a pop-up garden from found-objects. In the lee of the linear time, Vivarium both colonises and pollinates, generates and contaminates pre-existing ecologies.</p><p> </p><p><iframe src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fplayer.vimeo.com%2Fvideo%2F179049840&amp;dntp=1&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F179049840&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.vimeocdn.com%2Fvideo%2F653683435_1280.jpg&amp;key=cb39d84f05d8439bbe96012f078e02b0&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=vimeo" width="540" height="304" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p> </p><p><img alt="Vivarium_-_photo_mar_a_a._m_nera___interpr_te_paige_culley-1501688180" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/443984/Vivarium_-_Photo_Mar_a_A._M_nera___Interpr_te_Paige_Culley-1501688180.jpeg"> Paige Culley © María A. Múnera (video still)</p><p> </p><p><strong>CREATIVE PROCESS</strong></p><p> </p><p>Space is never empty. We try to work in a mode of soft manifesto — listening — in a spirit of equality and compassion. The performance is an exercise in placing value on alternative ways of moving and being moved through the world. We endeavour to cohabit spaces with other humans, non-human others, and objects, inspired by the drama of a garden, and attempt to resist prescriptiveness, worry, and harm. The paradox does not escape us. Patrick’s sound is a poem to the many voices in the field, but simultaneously drowns the hush of the air. As Noémie gardens, she contends with her conflicting roles as both fertilizer and colonizer. As Paige and Lucy dance, they both empathize with and trample what is at their feet. Our work began in 2014 in Hochelaga, and we continue our adaptations, outdoors and in.</p><p> </p><p><img alt="Lucymmay_vivarium_20160612_121339-1501884487" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/444176/LucyMMay_Vivarium_20160612_121339-1501884487.jpg"></p><p>(Noémie Avidar &amp; Patrick Conan © Lucy M. May)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>THE TEAM</strong></p><p><strong>Lucy M. May  </strong> -   Artistic Direction, Costume Design, Movement</p><p><strong>Noémie Avidar </strong>  -   Scenography &amp; Installation</p><p><strong>Paige Culley </strong>  -   Movement, Costume Design</p><p><strong>Patrick Conan</strong>   -   Sound Design</p><p><img alt="Lucymmay-1501709100" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/443999/LucyMMay-1501709100.jpeg"><img alt="No_mieavidar_headshot-1501709110" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/444000/No_mieAvidar_headshot-1501709110.jpeg"><img alt="Paigeculley-1501709123" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/444001/PaigeCulley-1501709123.jpeg"><img alt="Patrickconan-1501709135" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/444002/PatrickConan-1501709135.jpeg"></p><p> </p><p><strong>Outside Eyes:</strong> Peter James, Sasha Kleinplatz</p><p> </p><p><strong>Thank you</strong><strong>: </strong>Vivarium was created with support from Bête Sauvage, La danse sur les routes du Québec / Jouer Dehors 2017 &amp; 2018, Monument National / LA SERRE — arts vivants, M-A-I (Montréal, Art Interculturels), École nationale de théâtre du Canada, Bête Sauvage <strong>and </strong>Erin Fortier, Nathan Yaffe, Stephen Glasgow, Marie-Chantale Desrosiers <strong>and the photographers &amp; videographers </strong>Dorian Nuskind-Oder, Nans Bortuzzo, Emily Gan, Erin Fortier, María A. Múnera, Zuzu Knew</p><p> </p><p>Vivarium is part of <a href="http://www.ladansesurlesroutes.com/fr/select/spectacle/?id=3066">Jouer Dehors 2017 &amp; 2018 | La Danse sur les routes du Québec</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Previously performed at:</strong> Les Salons de l'est / Home Theatre Festival, Hochelaga, Montréal, May 25, 2014 <a target="_blank" href="http://suoniperilpopolo.org/shows/vivarium-3/">Suoni per il Popolo, Montréal, Québec</a>, École Nationale de théâtre, June 14th, 2017</p><p> </p><p><strong>AUDIENCE COMMENTS</strong></p><p> </p><p>“That was a really great show!!!” <strong>—</strong> <strong>Jacob Wren</strong></p><p> </p><p>“What a wonderful experience it was to sit through the dancers' fantastical journey as creatures of a Vivarium. The intimations of insects, ants, flies, bees, aphids and whatever else, the names of which I do not know, was so palpable. The moments of extreme stillness, of hidden presences lost behind a tree, a bush, a bench, were particularly intriguing. The artists created an atmosphere, a world that came to life, also thanks to the contrasting contribution of scenographer Noémie Avidar's role. Her presence was so pertinent. Everything she did was essential without being precious nor self-conscious. Patrick Conan's ambiant music played its vital role in contributing to and sustaining the atmosphere.”<strong> —</strong> <strong>An audience member</strong></p>

Allocation of funds

<p><strong>WHY A CAMPAIGN?</strong></p><p>Your donation will help us remount our installation for four performances for the corridors of l’Édifice Wilder Espace Danse. We are performing four shows in March/April 2018 at Tangente Danse, at the heart of the Montreal dance community! We want to adapt our work to the nuances of performing inside a glass, steel and concrete box instead of in the wind and dirt of vacant lots.</p><p><img alt="Lucymmay_vviarium_20170303_090938-1501884557" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/444177/LucyMMay_Vviarium_20170303_090938-1501884557.jpg"></p><p> </p><p><strong>THE SPIRIT OF GIFTS</strong></p><p>Our piece is inspired in greatly by The Gift, a book by Lewis Hyde. As equals, Lucy, Noémie, Patrick and Paige have invested hundreds of hours and dollars into Vivarium since 2014. We share authorship of the work, and prioritize DIY and anti-commercial practices.</p><p>This new adventure will involve more hours of experimentation and questioning, imagining and testing, to honour the poetic and political ethos of Vivarium. We wish to continue developing this way of cohabiting space and time communally. Help us reach our first fundraising goal of CAD $2270, and Caisse de la Culture will offer us an additional CAD $500!</p><p> </p><p><strong>THREE YEARS OF SUPPORT SO FAR!</strong></p><p>Vivarium was created in 2014 for Les Salons de l'est in Hochelaga, Montréal, a project by an independent neighbourhood collective. This year, we presented Vivarium for the perennial Montréal experimental music festival Suoni Per Il Popolo, with support from The National Theatre School of Canada. We have received residencies for research and creation from LA SERRE — arts vivants / Le Monument-National and M-A-I (Montréal, Art Interculturels), and our peers have graced us with many talents and resources in supporting the project development. Tangente will provide promotion, residencies, technical support, and a guarantee which will cover 90% of the artists’ performance fees for four performances in 2018.</p><p> </p><p><strong>BEYOND TANGENTE</strong></p><p>We were selected for a second year to participate in the mentorship program Jouer Dehors from La danse sur les routes du Québec. We plan to tour the work in and beyond Montréal in the year to come, and to the Maritimes. Your donation will help us offer Vivarium to new communities in the months to come!</p><p> </p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p> </p><p><strong>WHAT THIS CROWD-FUNDING CAMPAIGN FINANCES</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>First KissKissBankBank goal — CAD $2270</strong>     •    20 hours of rehearsal fees for four artists     •    9 hours of fees for an Outside eye </p><p> </p><p><strong>** Caisse de la culture bonus — CAD $500</strong>     •    Basic needs for scenography and soundscape     •    Remaining 10% of the artist’s show fees     •    Work safety coverage for four artists</p><p> </p><p><strong>Second Kiss Kiss Bank Bank goal — CAD $3670</strong>     •    10 more hours of Artists fees and work safety coverage     •    10 hours of studio rental     •    Documentation of the performance     •    Transportation of material to and from Tangente and our residencies.     •    5 hours of advising with Technical Director</p><p> </p><p><strong>Above and beyond — CAD $3670 +</strong>     •    Further fees to the artists for rehearsal hours, conceptualization and composition     •    Administrative labour     •    Additional materials and costumes adaptations     •    Equipment rentals</p><p> </p><p><strong>Additional funding sources being solicited:</strong>     •    Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec     •    Coup de pouce from Le Regroupement québécois de la danse</p>

Rewards

$CAD5

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DEEPLY EPHEMERAL GRATITUDE While you enjoy a coffee or tea with your favorite house plant, or with the spider in the corner of the kitchen, we send you our thanks for your gift as a vibration on the air.

$CAD10

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GRATITUDE IN CYBER-SPACE In addition to the above, your gift is recognized on the web. Offer yourself an hour-long walk in the garden, or in the neighbourhood park you forgot to visit. We send you our thanks through the soil.

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CELLULOSE GRATITUDE AND CHIMES In addition to everything above, enjoy a small piece of Vivarium with every ring of your phone! Your gift is recognized in the printed show programme, and we send our thanks to your inbox in the form of a downloadable ringtone for your cellphone — a sample from the music of Vivarium! + TAX RECEIPT FROM TANGENTE (Photo of Patrick Conan: Zuzu Knew)

$CAD50

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FIELDS OF GOLD In addition to everything above, we send our thanks to your inbox in the form of a unique downloadable field-recording made by Lucy in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South or North America. The sound of far-off spaces. + TAX RECEIPT FROM TANGENTE (Photo of Noémie Avidar: Emily Gan)

$CAD75

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SOFT PUNK GRATITUDE In addition to everything above, we will perform one act of soft disruption in the city in exchange for your gift: a message written on the lawn in sugar? a bedazzled fire hydrant? Photographic evidence is sent to your inbox or Facebook wall! + TAX RECEIPT FROM TANGENTE (Photo: Zuzu Knew)

$CAD100

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POSTAL GRATITUDE In addition to everything above, you receive a personal piece of letter mail from the artists containing a memento from our creation. + TAX RECEIPT FROM TANGENTE (Photo: Zuzu Knew)

Estimated delivery: November 2017

$CAD200

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GRACIOUS INVASION In addition to everything above, we recognize your generous gift with an exploration and improvisation in your name, in a hidden or unusual location in the city. You receive a video “postcard,” emailed to your inbox or posted to your Facebook wall, along with our deepest gratitude. + TAX RECEIPT FROM TANGENTE (Photo of Noémie Avidar: Emily Gan)

Estimated delivery: November 2017

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