ODE
Year of creation
2024
Inspired, by pagan processions, ten performers psalm on stage, tirelessly repeating a choral chant that resembles an insistent prayer. The gestures – like the words – are inoffensive and naïve, but gradually become more complex through repetition and accumulation, producing an almost psychedelic, hallucinogenic effect.
With ODE, Catherine Gaudet transports us into a surreal, exalted universe, imbued with an extreme desire for harmony, coupled with palpable ambiguity. For this new creation, the choreographer offers an unclassifiable work, striking in its singularity, somewhere between sacrificial rite and pop-rock spectacle.
Trailer © Julie Artacho
Produced by Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV
Choreography Catherine Gaudet
Performance Rodrigo Alvarenga-Bonilla + Stacey Désilier + Dany Desjardins + Francis Ducharme + Aurélie Ann Figaro + Caroline Gravel + Chi Long + Scott McCabe + James Phillips + Geneviève Robitaille + Ariane Levasseur
Performer-in-training Ariane Levasseur
Voice Myriam Leblanc
Original music composition Antoine Berthiaume
Rehearsal director and dramaturg Sophie Michaud
Costumes Marilène Bastien
Lighting Alexandre Pilon-Guay
Vocal coaching Frannie Holder
Sound design Larsen Lupin
Technical director François Marceau
Production Manager Geneviève Lessard
Sound Manager Guy Fortin
Coproduction Compagnie Catherine Gaudet + Festival TransAmériques
Developed with the support of the National Arts Centre National Creation Fund (Ottawa)
Presented in collaboration with Place des Arts
