MARTIN MESSIER | CON GRAZIA

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MARTIN MESSIER | CON GRAZIA

In Con Grazia, Martin Messier and choreographer Anne Thériault become human detonators, breaking the tension of a performative opus dedicated to the demolition of everyday objects. Together, they sound the death knell for elements of porcelain crockery, paradoxically returning to its physical materiality - elements made of dust - and exploring the sonic and visual potential of this deconstruction.

Their precisely-rehearsed gestures hammer out a score of clicks and clashes. In this radical performance, the hands think as much as they strike: they activate light sources that draw visual landscapes while shattering into pieces these objects chosen for their spherical harmony. In the shadow of this meticulous, performative destruction, machines rumble and roar, ready to create chaos. The entire mechanical apparatus caresses what destruction has stripped of beauty.

Martin Messier and Anne Thériault pulverize with grace, torturing ripe fruit in an intensely sensory musical and rhythmic carnage. A disturbing ode to the agony of the material world and the beauty of the invisible. 

Produced by
14 lieux + Lorganisme

Ideation
Martin Messier

Directed, co-created and performed by
Martin Messier + Anne Thériault

Lighting design
Martin Messier + Anne Thériault + Jean-François Piché

Music
Martin Messier

Visual design
Thomas Payette

Technicians during creative process
Dominique Hawry + Maxime Bouchard

Robotics
Louis Tschreiber

Outside eye
Patrick Lamothe

Robots manufacturing and technical production
Robocut

Text
Jessie Mill for Festival TransAmériques

Coproduction
Festival TransAmériques

Résidences de création
Circuit-Est Centre chorégraphique + Théâtre Hector-Charland (L’Assomption)

Support
CALQ, CAC, CAM

⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯  MACHINE MOUVEMENT MUSIQUE LUMIÈRE  ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯  MACHINE MOVEMENT MUSIC LIGHT  ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

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