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Angela Laurier
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18-24 January 2008
First the father talks, then the brother. A story about a family, incredibly tight relationships, filmed in full frame shots during a trip in the North of Canada. In front of the screen, Angela Laurier contorts herself as if to defeat the words, to finally fight them. Following Filmer (filming), a performance and the first stage of the project*, she now presents Déversoir: the outcome of this long exploration of family intimacy. On the stage, her body seems to mix with then confront the words and images of the father and brother. Angela Laurier let us see the physical and mental obligation to fight that makes her such a great circus artist. Her talented body is used to serve a violently intimate purpose, in the hope of freeing itself. A moment of exceptional sensibility, far beyond the realm of circus, which tells of the weight the family story has on the body and the energy required to wrench oneself away from it and redress the balance. *presented at the Ça Change! WeekEnd in January 2007.
“(…) From fierceness to gracefulness, intimacy to exorcism, performance to delivery, her path went back and forth, twisting the space around her as much as she did her body, as if you had to use, rehearse, reuse, re-rehearse, before you can see above the weight of things the minuscule part played by the self. Angela Laurier says that one day soon her future as a contortionist will evaporate like old clothes and that she will then really be able to talk about her experiences without fearing the onset of madness. She will then be totally free.” Daniel Conrod, in Télérama magazine, January 07, about "Filmer", the first stage of the project).
See the flyer "Ménard / Laurier" (pdf / 200 KB) ! In french!
See press release "Ménard / Laurier" (pdf / 625 KB) !In french!
See synopsis (pdf / 46 KB) !In french!
