Sébastien Provencher
Artist of Festival TransAmériques
Photo: Danseur : Mathieu Hérard ©Sébastien Provencher
Workshop - The body as a canvas - Explorations around Floreus' creative process at FTA 2024
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The body as an art object
This workshop is inspired by the choreographic approach surrounding the process of Floreus, a piece by Sébastien Provencher premiering at FTA in 2024. The creator will offer a choreographic workshop on the themes that run through this work born from a dialogue with the work of visual artist, Zachari Logan. In Sébastien's approach, the body becomes a living painting, a material in constant transformation.
Participants will have the opportunity to carry out improvisation exercises structured around somatic principles, to explore the use of voice and the use of the different senses in their relationship to movement and performance. Based on the choreographic material of the piece, the aim will be to experiment with the relationship to time and space and to note how these elements influence presence and theatricality on stage.
An immersion into the heart of the Floreus creation process!
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Sébastien Provencher
FTA Artist
Workshop
June 4 and 5
11:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
(4 hours)
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Wilder Building
Studio: to be confirmed
Sébastien Provencher​
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Sébastien Provencher is a choreographer based in Montreal, graduated with a bachelor's degree in contemporary dance from the University of Quebec in Montreal. He has been a member of the Lagence company, a structure for choreographers, since 2020. As an artist, he is interested in hybrid forms of shows, at the border of several disciplines, where the body and movement are at the heart of the proposition. artistic. His creations have been presented in Canada (Agora de la danse, FTA, Tangente danse) in France and in Germany (Made in Potsdam). Sébastien is also artistic co-director of the FURIES festival presented in Marsoui, in Gaspésie. As a performer, he has danced for several choreographers in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, including Louise Bédard, Harold Rhéaume, Sasha Kleinplatz, Manon Oligny, Helen Simard, George Stamos, Martin Messier, Emmanuel Jouthe, Maïgwenn Desbois, Dietrich Group /DA Hoskins, Social Growl Dance, Marie Lambin.
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