Benoît Lachambre
Jan 20 - 31, 2020
Photo credit: Charlie Prince © Par B.L.eux
In collaboration with Danse Danse Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal invites you to discover the work of choreographer and performer Benoît Lachambre who will occupy our spaces from January 20 to 31 for a creative residency alongside Charlie Prince. During 10 days, their choreographic experiments will take place in the heart of our exhibitions and will be accessible to the public.
L’Ogre, le Phoenix et l’ami fidèle (le chien de feu)...
Benoît Lachambre, artist choreographer, performer, and artistic director of Par B.L.eux is currently in the research phase for L’Ogre, le Phoenix et l’ami fidèle (le chien de feu)... Last creation of a trilogy which began with Lifeguard and Fluid Grounds, this production pursues some of the major reflections on transdisciplinarity that were initiated in the first two works.
Benoît Lachambre started the first stage of creation for this third component last December with Lebanese-Canadian dance artist Charlie Prince. They work in reference with Lebanese artist Tarek Chemaly’s multimedia work.
In January 2020, they will begin a new phase of their work during this residency made possible thanks to Danse Danse and Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal. The inclusion of Charlie Prince’s creative interests in Arab futurism feed this new step’s process. Benoît Lachambre and Charlie Prince wish to work with questions regarding healing, recognition, and resilience. They will thus call out to the presences passing through them.
BENOÎT LACHAMBRE
Major choreographer and performer of his generation, Benoît Lachambre has been evolving in the dance scene since the 1970s. His approach is part of an ever more growing desire to decompartmentalize the choreographic gesture. We encounter an invitation to detachment in his creations, and a profound will to relieve the organism and its movements from any political, socio-cultural and aesthetic hierarchy.
In 1996, he founded his own company Par B.L.eux, in Montreal, with which he has since created 18 works. Benoît Lachambre has also been given workshops all over the world for the past 25 years, and has thus acquired a great notoriety as a teacher.
CHARLIE PRINCE
Charlie Prince is a performer and dance-maker. Born and raised in the mountains of Lebanon (1991), he later immigrated to Canada and is now based in Amsterdam.
As a movement artist, Prince is interested in the place of the body within postcolonial imaginaries as a means to subvert and resist imperial legacies. He works with form as conceiving origin in imagined space, towards the abyss of an imagined future and seeks to subvert cultural nostalgias in order to instil a progressive force, towards being a subject and not object of history.
His choreographic work has been presented in major festivals across Europe and the Middle East.
RESIDENCY SCHEDULE
(open to the public from Jan 20 to 31)
Jan 21 - 26: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Jan 28 - 31: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.