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2024 Season
For this first season of our Sortie du bois podcast, we are fortunate to welcome artists from various backgrounds. Coming from the beautiful province or from abroad, each one shares with us with humility their approach, their inspirations, their pride and their doubts too. A dive into the creative universe of 6 unique artists!
Episodes
Barbara K. Diabo | Dada | Laura Doyle Péan | Danièle Desnoyers | Gaspard Combes | Élaine Frigon
1. Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo - Dance - A’nó:wara Dance Theatre
Recognized indigenous dance choreographer and performer, Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo returns in this discussion to her history, her life and what gave her a taste for dance. She came to La Montagnarde with the desire to work on the staging of her new show I dream in Wampum, which will premiere next April at the Vieux-Terrebonne theatre. La Montagnarde gave her time to breathe, to respect the true rhythm of life, to draw energy from plants and stars. She also reminds us that in her culture, that of the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) people, winter is the time for telling stories. A very inspiring discussion! |
2. DADA aka Dardia Joseph - Theatre
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3. Laura Doyle Péan - Poetry
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4. Danièle Desnoyers - Choreography - Carré des Lombes
Danièle Desnoyers, internationally recognized choreographer, came to explore La Montagnarde with 6 Quebec and Italian performers to work on the Scenographies-Paysages in Sardinia project, a co-production between Quebec and several Italian producers. The artist evokes the intimate link she maintains with the Quebec forest, its textures, its sounds which remind her of those of her childhood spent playing outside. She wanted to reproduce this with her performers while developing their capacity to adapt, to leave traditional places and explore extraordinary sites. The rain and the mosquitoes did not discourage them, their bodies on alert, they gradually melted away, in this particular heritage landscape, erasing the choreography to allow the movement to emerge. |
5. Gaspard Combes - Plastic artsComing soon |
6. Élaine Frigon - Visual artsComing soon |
For the lawyer and young artist Dada, the Laurentian forest was a total discovery. Born in Haiti, she grew up in Ahuntsic and had never had the opportunity to experience this aspect of Quebec territory. This isolated place allowed her to experience her emotions with fullness, to speak loudly, to shout, to experience her solitude too. She saw this stay as a space to nourish herself and digest influences. The residency gave her real creative time and guided her towards clear paths for her piece Anatomy of a Commercial Product. In this conversation with Annie, we discover her creative process, her inspirations and her artistic choices.
In this public episode, we discover this multidisciplinary artist, who came to La Montagnarde to work on a second collection of poetry after, Cœur Yoyo (Mémoire d'encrier editions) published in 2020. They tell us about what the proximity to nature, the possibility of going outside, of walking, of experiencing the seasons brought them. This offered to them a form of balance that they did not know. Laura shares with those present their creative process mainly based on automatic writing. As an activist, Laura addresses themes such as mental health and discrimination in their writing and talks to us about the liberating, almost therapeutic force of this art.
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