Chutes incandescentes

Benoît Lachambre, The Body as Communication
With dance that is firmly rooted in the body, this Quebec dancer and choreographer has made a big impression on the European scene in the past decade, and over the past fifteen years his workshops on a hyper-awakening of the senses have attracted many participants. In 1996 he founded par b.l.eux (Benoît Lachambre and them) to create interdisciplinary works in collaboration with artists of diverse backgrounds, including Boris Charmatz, Sasha Waltz and Marie Chouinard. With Meg Stuart and Hahn Rowe he created Forgeries, Love and Other Matters, which won a prestigious Bessie Award in New York. He was at the FTA in 2005 with 100 rencontres, and returned in 2008 with Is You Me (with Louise Lecavalier and Laurent Goldring) and in 2009 with Body-Scan (with Su-Feh Lee). He is involved with many different projects, creating commissioned pieces such as “I” is Memory for Louise Lecavalier and JJ’s Voice for the Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm. In 2011 he created a solo for Clara Furey in the collective project Danse à 10.

Clara Furey, Every Inch an Artist
A musician, singer-songwriter, actress and dancer, the very charismatic Clara Furey has been pursuing multiple artistic paths since graduating from the contemporary dance school LADMMI. She has worked with Benoît Lachambre on two previous occasions, and also with the choreographers David Pressault, Pierre Lecours, George Stamos and Danièle Desnoyers (Là où je vis, FTA, 2008). She recently danced to choreography by Damien Jalet in the opera Red Waters, directed by Arthur Nauzyciel. She has acted in three films, on the stage in Poésie, sandwichs et autres soirs qui penchent (FTA, 2008) and Dans les charbons by Loui Mauffette. She is currently working on a project with Céline Bonnier, with whom she co-created Hello… How are you? in 2011. Her concerts at Théâtre de Quat’Sous in 2010 showcased her musical talents, and she recently performed on a tour of France with her father Lewis Furey, who remains an invaluable mentor.