Alliance Française Vancouver hosts Audrey Gaussiran’s vibrant MOSAÏCO, November 20
Production explores identity as the dancers’ movements influence a highly reactive digital projection onstage
Audrey Gaussiran’s MOSAÏCO. Photo by David Wong
Alliance Française Vancouver presents Audrey Gaussiran’s MOSAÏCO, a piece that combines dance and digital art, on November 20 at 7:30 pm.
MOSAÏCO explores the multiplicity in identity construction by featuring five dancers onstage who are from culturally diverse backgrounds: Gaussiran, Aly Keita, Andrea Nino Sarmiento, Aymen Benkreira, and Emmanuelle Martin. They support the theme with a rhythmic gestural vocabulary.
The dancers’ movements influence a highly reactive digital projection in the background; the appearance, transformation, or decomposition of a textured mosaic changes with the performers’ gestures. MOSAÏCO is punctuated with poetic texts by Gaussiran, Sarah Khilaji, Paul Zakarivan, and Jean-Pierre Gorkynian, providing audiences with insight into the profound reflection that fuelled the choreographic process.
Gaussiran offers a visceral vision of the world’s current issues in MOSAÏCO. Flamenco, contemporary, oriental, Latin, and urban dance interweave to create a singular polyglot body language.
For tickets and more details, visit Alliance Française Vancouver.
Post sponsored by Alliance Française Vancouver.
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