In “I know you are but what am I?” we witness the disorienting experience of an individual becoming confronted by the disabling allowances of his world after losing his hearing. The story reminds us that the force and the construction of one’s identity are not just the result of a putting in place of scaffolding that is built from within, it is a psychic event; a fixing in place as much from an exterior force as an interior one. Information for self-formation is flowing outwards and inwards, afferent and efferent; a becoming that projects onto one a sense of self. In this case it comes from the commanding presence of others, far from the interior workings of self-hood.
Choreographer: Cai Glover
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Cai Glover, Cai Glover has been transfixed in an on-going and endless discovery of dance since he was 10 years old. Most recently, under the name of his company, A Fichu Turning, Cai has been developing expression in poetry and in a language of movement putting the dancing body to task in a search of an embodied expression of poetics. Through the transposition of language into movement we make meaning beyond the grips of the literal. He never tires of the search in finding ways to bring affect to audiences through this art form and to appeal to the varied and countless emotional experiences of the human being. As a hard of hearing artist, hearing differently has become a driving force of his artistry and originality as a mover, interpreter and choreographer.
Performer: Sophie Breton
Sophie Breton graduated from the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal in 2008. Since then, she has danced for such choreographers as Alan Lake, Frédéric Marier, Thierry Huard, Sasha Kleinplatz and Jacques Poulin-Denis, while working alongside Ginelle Chagnon to stage excerpts from the work of Jean-Pierre Perreault. In 2012, she joined O Vertigo for a 3-year period. Today, Sophie works alongside Virginie Brunelle - Complexe des genres, À la douleur que j'ai, Les corps avalés - Isabelle Van Grimde - Les Gestes, Le corps en Question(s), Corps Secret Corps Public, Symphonie 5.1, Ève 2050 - and Sylvain Émard.Léa Noblet Di Ziranaldi, Originally from France, Léa Noblet Di Ziranaldi received her dance training at the Conservatoire de Lyon and the Université Lumière Lyon 2 (BA in performance) before moving to Quebec, where in 2018 she obtained a BA in dance performance from UQAM. After graduating, she worked for a year as a performer with companies such as MAYDAY (2020 and 2021 Festival TransAmériques, From Jaffa to Agripas Festival), La Mazane (2019 Avignon Festival) and Sarah Dell’Ava (2021 Festival TransAmériques). In 2020, she co-founded Le Bercail, an itinerant community space for Montréal’s pro and semi-pro movers, and joined the collective Les Berceurs du temps as a contributor to dance projects open to everyone.
Lighting Designer: Etienne Fournier
Composer: Guesthouse, Anusha Kamesh
