Soak is a performance by Martin Messier in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Caroline Laurin-Beaucage. A sensory dive into the heart of a dark universe, where wandering bodies attempt to reconnect with fragmented memories.
Stripped of their identities and histories, anonymous beings find themselves projected into a black hole, wandering in a suspended temporality. Without light or melody, darkness reigns. Fleeting patches of light reveal flickering silhouettes, while incisive, unpredictable staccato sounds collide with them. These intuitive, instinctive bodies evolve, struck by flashes of light and fragments of sound, like evanescent echoes of a broken memory.
In this performance, Martin Messier explores notions of the “physicality” of the human body, through the performers' movements and this fragmented memory, and of sound-light interaction.
Choreographers
Caroline Laurin-Beaucage, Martin Messier
Dancers on stage
Brianna Lombardo, Elinor Fueter
Creative process dancers
Caroline Laurin-Beaucage, Brianna Lombardo
Sound
Martin Messier
Light
Martin Messier, Karine Gauthier
Photos
Julie Artacho