Switch (meditations on crying) + Poetics to Activate the Technology of the Body + Nurse Tree are three projects presented in dialogue with one another.
Drawing from strip tease, lap dance, meditation and intuitive martial arts - Switch (meditations on crying) wrestles with socialized notions of sexiness and the buddhist concept of the hungry ghost. The hungry ghost in eastern philosophy represents the insatiable hunger alive in people that leads to addiction, self harm or harm to others. Switch (meditations on crying) is a dance solo that embodies the fluid and creaturely aspects of personhood, calling upon sensation to disrupt objectification.
Poetics to Activate the Technology of the Body is a dance video series inspired by guided meditations and the “how to” approach of a work-out video. The goal orientation of these dance videos is a monument to catching one’s breath, calming the nervous system, and a digital spa where participants are guided back into self and into sensation- through sound and dance.
Nurse Tree is an installation of body workers and the aesthetics and practices of care - that seeks to move beyond critique of the medical industrial complex to a place where alternative economies of care exist. Wrestling with the need for another vision for future while acknowledging the harms of utopic thinking. It is a proposition for another way of living, dying and caring for eachother along the way.
Credits
Be Heintzman Hope — Artistic direction
Be Heintzman Hope — Choreography, performance Switch (meditations on crying)
Lucy B., Kaiden Diaz, Bam Truong — Performance Nurse Tree
Baco Lepage-Acosta — Conception video Poetics to Active the Technology of the Body
Nien Tzu Weng — Lighting fairy
Alice Lepage-Acosta — Costumes
Be Heintzman Hope — Sound weaver
Sasha Lang, Tomas Furey — Sound guides
Carmen Colas — Support to sound weaver
Néné Myriam-Konaté, Clara Furey, Baco Lepage-Acosta, Nada Khashaba, Dhalia Li, Maxine Segalowitz, K.G. Guttman, Carol Prieur — Dramaturgy
Malek Robanna — Astrological consult
Kinga Michalska, Baco Lepage-Acosta — Promotional images, video
Partners and supports for creation — CCOV, Studio 303
The creation of this work was made possible thanks to the financial support of: Conseil des arts du Canada, Conseil des arts de Montréal.
A presentation Danse-Cité & MAI | Montréal, arts interculturels.
A coproduction Be Heintzman Hope, MAI | Montréal, arts interculturels, Parbleux & Danse-Cité.
Curated by Ellen Furey & Sophie Corriveau.
About the artist
My body is a site for emotional excavation, it is the basis of my work. Unsaid things live on inside bodies, taking up space. I work to create space for the body to speak. Working with the disparate logic of words and movement, I seek to untangle how this dissonance manifests in gesture.
The western context creates a space where the language of the body needs validation all the time through verbal and written analysis. Working in wordless imaginaries allows the nuance of tone to become a language itself. Using tone as language is a diasporic act of resistance to colonial language(s) and the loss of our mother tongue(s).
Read more : https://parbleux.com/productions-deleguees/artistes/be-heintzman-hope
Practical Informations
Dates
May 2 - 7.30 pm
May 3 - 7.30 pm
May 4 - 7.30 pm
May 5 - 7.30 pm
May 6 - 2 pm
Get to
3680 Jeanne Mance str.
Montréal, QC H2X 2K5
Box office
Flexible pricing | 15 - 60 $
https://m-a-i.tuxedobillet.com/main/switch-poetics-to-activate-the-technology-of-the-body-nurse-tree
For any question or group reservation, please contact the MAI Box Office at: (514) 982-3386
Accessibility
https://www.m-a-i.qc.ca/en/accessibility/
Duration of the show
Switch (meditations on crying): 60 minutes
Poetics to Activate the Technology of the Body & Nurse Tree: 30-45 minutes
Show notes
Content warning:
Quick light changes,
Quick sound changes,
Sexuality
Free childcare service
In order to allow parents to fully enjoy the show, a free childcare service will be made available during the May 6th show at 2pm. This service is offered for children aged 2 to 8 years old. Register with this form. For more information, visit : https://www.m-a-i.qc.ca/garde-denfants/