Presented in partnership with the International Festival of Films on Art (Le FIFA)
As part of LA SEMAINE DU NEUF — Tribute to Claude Vivier
Le Vivier presents LOVE SONGS + LIGHT
What would Love Songs have been in 2022, when notions of gender, queerness and sexuality are becoming more and more important in the general culture? The vocal collective Phth answers this question in a commission from Le Vivier by presenting an audacious cinematic version of composer Claude Vivier’s Love Songs, which are full of color, emotion and strange dimensions. Video, music, choreography and staging willingly tame the Love Songs brought up to date. Phth breaks the binary codes by celebrating a form of androgyny, gender ambiguity and sexuality. A queer side very assumed by the composer of the last century as well as by the interpreters of today!
To complete the program, a screening of Light, a mono-opera composed by Jimmie LeBlanc that revisits a central moment in the triptych Hell Light Flesh (2020) by Montreal writer Klara du Plessis (South Africa/Canada), a poetic and narrative work in which a writer recalls, through creation, a moment of complicity with her mother, as the latter tried to protect her from the domestic violence inflicted by her father on his oldest son.
For more information, visit the Le Vivier website.
As part of LA SEMAINE DU NEUF — Tribute to Claude Vivier
Le Vivier presents LOVE SONGS + LIGHT
What would Love Songs have been in 2022, when notions of gender, queerness and sexuality are becoming more and more important in the general culture? The vocal collective Phth answers this question in a commission from Le Vivier by presenting an audacious cinematic version of composer Claude Vivier’s Love Songs, which are full of color, emotion and strange dimensions. Video, music, choreography and staging willingly tame the Love Songs brought up to date. Phth breaks the binary codes by celebrating a form of androgyny, gender ambiguity and sexuality. A queer side very assumed by the composer of the last century as well as by the interpreters of today!
To complete the program, a screening of Light, a mono-opera composed by Jimmie LeBlanc that revisits a central moment in the triptych Hell Light Flesh (2020) by Montreal writer Klara du Plessis (South Africa/Canada), a poetic and narrative work in which a writer recalls, through creation, a moment of complicity with her mother, as the latter tried to protect her from the domestic violence inflicted by her father on his oldest son.
For more information, visit the Le Vivier website.
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Event
• Monument-National
Le Vivier presents LOVE SONGS + LIGHT
Wednesday, march 15, 2023, 07:30 p.m.