Workshops & projections : The faun dance/Pakutishkuauat Nimuat in Sept-Îles, from May 22 to 25
Montréal, Thursday, May 9th 2024
In the build-up to the festival in July, Cinédanse is inviting people with cerebral palsy and motor disorders, as well as artists, researchers, healthcare professionals and the general public on the North Shore, to take part of free workshops The faun dance/Pakutishkuauat nimuat, with New York choreographer Tamar Rogoff from May 22 to 25 at Musée Shaputuan in Uashat and Studio de danse – Fandango, in Sept-Îles.
“The intelligence of the body is great, unsuspected. It often cannot be explained. Dance, artistic creation and patient work with the body can reinvent beings, releasing tensions that have always been buried. Science remains seized by phenomena of rebirth”
– Sylvain Bleau, directeur of La Caravane de Phoebus, producer of Cinédanse.
Free screening open to the public
Wednesday May 22 at 7pm in Musée Shaputuan. 290 Bd des Montagnais, Sept-Rivières (Uashat)
« Enter faun » : a powerful documentary !
New York choreographer Tamar Rogoff wanted to create a new version of L’Après-midi d’un faune (1912), Vaslav Nijinsky’s landmark piece created by Diaghilev’s famous Ballets Russes. She chose to work with the young actor Greg Mozgala, who suffers from cerebral palsy, to interpret the faun.
Tamar Rogoff adapted her creative and teaching techniques to Gregg Mozgala’s physical condition, and he agreed to submit his body and mind to her choreographer’s designs. Together, they reinvented their practice and their very existence.
Directed by : Tamar Rogoff & Daisy Wright | US | 2015 | 68mn
Free workshops
Free workshops for people with cerebral palsy, motor disorders, artists, researchers, healthcare professionals and the general public.
Tamar Rogoff will offer a program of exercises through which participants will experience a new approach to managing their motor skills. Like Gregg Mozgala, who learned to break with motor habits engendered by cerebral palsy, participants will be led to discover parts of their body over which they previously had little control, and which can be sources of motor rehabilitation.
Certain exercises, based on the brain’s neuroplasticity, aim to break with acquired routines in the way we move and explore new avenues in motor control. Participants will also discover the “involuntary shaking” technique, in which muscle relaxation reduces tension in the body, while reducing pain signals and increasing feelings of well-being.
Multidisciplinary artist Johanne Roussy, from Sept-Îles, will accompany and assist Tamar Roggoff throughout her visit.
[/ux_text]Our partnership with Culture Côte-Nord (CCN) will enable local artists to benefit from CCN’s individual development assistance, which will cover a significant portion of your travel, accommodation and meal expenses.
[/col_inner_1]In addition to her program, Tamar Rogoff will visit Jean-du-Nord high school to present her film on Thursday, May 23, from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., as well as a workshop on Friday, May 24, from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the agora.
About Tamar Rogoff
New York choreographer Tamar Rogoff explores the limits of human beings confronted with the extreme circumstances of their existence. She has worked with members of the community of her ancestors who died in the Holocaust, war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, actress Claire Daines (Homeland), with whom she has collaborated many times, and young actor Gregg Mozgala, who suffers from cerebral palsy. Tamar Rogoff and Gregg Mozgala are invited all over the world to share their experience.
Thanks to all our partners!
Canadian Heritage, Employment and Social Development Canada, Ministère du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale du Québec, Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie du Québec, Consulat Général de France à Québec, Ciné-Corps (France),
L’Atelier de la 8e île, Côte-Nord Regional Museum and its Chapelle du Vieux-Poste, Shaputuan Museum, Escale Musicale of the City of Sept-Îles and its Tente jaune, Cégep of Sept-Îles, Culture Côte-Nord, dance and yoga school – Fandango, AFUSI – Association des Femmes Unies of Sept-Îles, Alpha Lira Center, Jean-du-Nord High School, Petrie Raymond.
About Cinédanse
Founded by Sylvain Bleau thirteen years ago, La Caravane de Phœbus, an organization driven by humanist and progressive values – producer of the Cinédanse event and related activities, works in dance and many other disciplines that revolve around it: cinema, visual arts, digital arts and poetry.
Cinédanse began in Montreal in 2012, then travelled to Quebec City in 2015, Ottawa in 2019 and Rouyn-Noranda in 2022, under the theme “Loving, aging and dancing! The 5th edition of Cinédanse took place in Caraquet in 2023 under the theme “L’éveil de la Méduse!”, and the next edition will be held in Sept-Îles under the theme “Healing scars/Nanatushitishutau ”.
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Sources and press relations:
Andréanne Mercier, executive and communications assistant , 1 514 434-1095, prod@cinedanse.ca
