BIOGRAPHIE
PETRIKOR DANSE
Artistic Director - Bettina Szabo
HABITAT
Transformation | Emigration | Growth
Solo || 50 minutes
Habitat is a multidisciplinary solo inspired by the life cycle of hermit crabs, serving as a metaphor for the artist's emigration journey from Uruguay to Canada. Hermit crabs don’t have a shell; instead, they house themselves in objects according to their size. As they grow, their object becomes limiting and uncomfortable, so they look for a new one.
This multidisciplinary piece combines movement, sound, a paper sculpture named Hermes (made of 600 articulated paper cones) and lighting. All elements are controlled in real time by the performer, and serve as her shell, her habitat. The lighting and sculpture create beautiful visual effects reminiscent of aurora borealis. All these elements make of Habitat a hypnotic poetic experience with an aquatic eerie atmosphere.
Creative Team
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Choreography and performance: Bettina Szabo
Sculpture: Jacinthe Derasp
Musical composition: Ana Dall'Ara Majek and Joel Lavoie
Dramaturgy: Morena Prats
Wearable electronics: Alexandra Bachmayer
Costume: Anomal Couture
Rehearsal direction: Laurie-Anne Langis, Annie Gagnon and Philippe Poirier
Lighting design: Paul Chambers
Spatialization: Thibaut Carpentier
Technial direction: Audrée J. Lewka
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Management: Aaron Fernandes
Press quotes
Spatialized music bursts from everywhere, runs through our spine. This short, accomplished creation is a work of proximity. — Nayla Naoufal, Le Devoir
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[...] beautiful images are created with strength and brilliance throughout the play. — DF Danse
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One of the best current shows...the use of lighting, inside and outside the costume, conjures up the pastel glimmer of northern lights and the flames of a forest fire -The Guardian, Lyndsey Winship
Presented at:
Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh 2023, Lightning Guerrilla Festival, Ljubljana 2023, International Figuren Theater Festival, Nuremberg 2023, La Rotonde, Quebec 2023,CAM on Tour, Montreal 2023, BIDAM, Busan 2022, La Fundicion, Bilbao 2022
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Excerpts at:
Off-CINARS, Montreal 2022, Tangente, Montreal 2020, Parcours Danse 2019, Montreal 2019, Festival ZH, Montreal 2017, Métamorphose - Studio 303, Montreal 2016
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