7 pm
A performance between theater and dance, in which performer Chi Long reveals herself through fragments of real or fabricated stories, to better question Quebec identity in the face of major migratory issues. How are our identities constructed? What memory can we rely on? How do we relate to physical or imaginary territories?
She and the other(s) flirts with ambivalence, intent on blurring the lines by overlapping eras and characters. In this bare space, the generational legacy merges with the art of camouflage, and the body as bearer of the traumas of the past becomes a timeless, shifting territory, sometimes magnified, sometimes bruised. Despite the intensity of its subject matter, Élodie Lombardo’s piece is just like its performer: fresh, surprising and disconcerting. It invites us both to rethink ourselves as individuals and to redefine ourselves as a society through the prism of our personal histories and collective traumas.
