The exhibition “YES! From Refus Global to a time of inclusion and gender fluidity” invited to Rennes in Bretagne from January 28 to February 10, 2023 !
Montréal, december 21st 2022 – The exhibition “OUI! From the Refus Global to the time of inclusion and gender fluidity” signed by Ciné-Corps from France and Cinédanse from Quebec will be presented as part of the next edition of the Waterproof Festival in Rennes, France, from January 28 to February 10, 2023 at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes and the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) de Bretagne.
Travelling from Québec will be Manon Barbeau, filmmaker and co-founder of Wapikoni Mobile, along with two young Native artists, Abitibi filmmaker Béatriz Mediavilla and Mohawk performer and choreographer Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo. Also on the program from France: performer, choreographer and director of the Centre Chorégraphique National de La Rochelle Olivia Grandville and choreographer, singer and writer François Chaignaud.
This marathon of dance events, produced for its French version by Virginie Combet’s team at Ciné-Corps, will be a unique gathering of living artists from France and Québec, combining screenings, performances, workshops and encounters with the public, revisiting historical questions of refusal and inclusion from the time of the famous Refus global manifesto by the artist group Les Automatistes de Montréal.
In February 1948, the young Françoise Sullivan gave a lecture full of truth. A few months later, she used it as a contribution to the Refus global manifesto she co-signed with Paul-Émile Borduas and fourteen other young artists. For its emancipatory charge, her text remains just as relevant today. Seventy-five years on, the artists on the festival program will be revisiting this text, Dance and Hope.
“Today, we’re scrambling to rebuild the world. The instrument of rescue is instinct. That instinct, so long imprisoned, part of our effort now is to unearth it.”
— Françoise Sullivan, in the Refus global manifesto (1948)
The exhibition “YES! From Refus Global to a time of inclusion and gender fluidity“ traces the evolution of dance on screen from Françoise Sullivan’s “Danse in the Snow” to Maurice Béjart’s “Boléro”.
Curated by Sylvain Bleau and Virginie Combet, the exhibition speaks of emancipation and revelation, of Francophones and Natives in Québec, of cultural communities in France and Québec, and of different genres.
The exhibition features Québec artists Françoise Sullivan, Mario Côté, Darian Smith, Thérèse Ottawa, Béatriz Mediavilla, Isabelle Hayeur, Ariane Boulet, Édouard Lock, Marlene Millar, Nate Yaffe, and French artists Maurice Béjart, Chriss Lag, François Chaignaud, Cecilia Bengolea, Ludivine Large-Bessette, Nacera Belaza, La Horde.
The Québec version of the “ YES! ” exhibition was presented last March as part of the latest edition of the Cinédanse festival at the Musée d’art of Rouyn-Noranda.
Many Thanks to our partners!
Le Ministère de la Culture de France,
Le Consulat général de France à Québec,
La Coopération France-Québec,
Le Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie du Québec,
Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec,
Les Offices jeunesse internationaux du Québec,
La Délégation générale du Québec à Paris,
Ciné-Corps,
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Bretagne,
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes,
Festival Waterproof,
This “OUI!” exhibition is part of the 68th Franco-Québec Biennial.
Crédit photo: Le Chemin Rouge de Thérèse Ottawa
About Cinédanse
Founded by Sylvain Bleau in 2011, La Caravane de Phœbus, an organization driven by humanist and progressive values – producer of the Cinédanse event and related activities, works in dance and several other disciplines that revolve around it: cinema, visual arts and digital arts. Cinédanse began in Montréal in 2012, then in Québec City in 2015 and Ottawa in 2019, with the fourth edition of Cinédanse taking place in Rouyn-Noranda, Abitibi in 2022, under the theme “Love, grow old and dance!”
Presse relations
Andréanne Mercier, Adjointe à la direction et aux communications
(514) 434-1095 / prod@cinedanse.ca
