HUMAN TIDE. Dance that absolutely asserts itself as dance. Dance that is unadorned and rigorous. Dance that is an allegorical ocean, powerful and unfathomable, with violent, tempestuous movements and tremendous silences. Daniel Léveillé’s latest work Crépuscule des océans (Twilight of the Oceans) invites the audience to follow the ebb and flow of a human tide, exploring its depths and our dark side. Staunchly opposed to divisions and barriers, Léveillé flees at the approach of an ensnaring net or any effort to reduce his work to a single desire. “I dream of a performance that is fluid and not fixed, not frozen dead in a definitive form.” After Amour, acide et noix (2001) and La Pudeur des icebergs (2004), is he pursuing a triptych? Then again, why be burdened with categories and classifications?  With his disregard for convention and his rigorous approach, he creates dance that escapes all attempts to define and classify. “I never know what I’m working on. I do everything I can to not know what I’m doing, responding instead to instinct and the subconscious. My ideal is to have me, the creative artist, fade into the background and disappear.” Such effacing nonetheless leaves an indelible trace in the consciousness of audiences carried away by the dynamic dance he creates.

Choreography: Daniel Léveillé
Performers: Frédéric Boivin, Mathieu Campeau, Katie Ewald, Justin Gionet, Stéphane Gladyszewski, Ivana Millicevic, Emmanuel Proulx
Dance Coach: Marie-Andrée Gougeon
Lighting Design: Jean Jauvin
Music: Jean-Sébastien Durocher
Coproduction: Impulstanz Vienna International, Dance Festival, Szene Salzburg International; Performing Arts; Festival TransAmériques, Agora De La Danse (Montréal), Danspace Project (New York)
In Association With Agora De La Danse
Residencies: Département de danse de l'UQAM,  Maison de la culture Frontenac, Centre de création O Vertigo, Agora de la danse, Szene Salzburg