Hors-d'œuvre
Creation
year
2026
Hors-d’œuvre is structured around the contrast between dreams and cruel reality. A few steps sketched, repeated, clarified, refined… Like a knife being sharpened to slice, fate in its favour. Hors-d’œuvre is a phantom choreography that hesitates so much it almost disappears. Is it an ode to persistence and resistance, or does it represent a soul consumed by ambition? The muscle is taut, but the eye is moist. The walls close in, but the outside is so vast that one gets lost in it. Each step is an attempt, a breath on the embers of what remains—still a little—alive. It is no longer a rehearsal: it is an obsession. Something must give way. Or everything will go at once.
Teaser © Julie Artacho
Produced by Compagnie Catherine Gaudet
Project creator, collaborator, and performer James Phillips
Choreography Catherine Gaudet
Music Red Ford Radio by U.S. Girls
Dramaturgical advisor and rehearsal director Sophie Michaud
Lighting Hugo Dalphond
Props Anne-Sara Gendron
Production manager and stage manager Mégane Trudeau
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