ENJOY THE SHOW! Obscene? No, lucid. The choreographer Dave St-Pierre is neither a provocateur nor an old-fashioned romantic. Moving between discipline and chaos, this troublemaker likes to disrupt stage conventions in destroy and trash fashion, playing with kitschy mockery and sly sentimentalism in order to flush out some disturbing truths about how we view love and tenderness. While never shying away from highly charged imagery, nakedness or grotesque cross-dressing, nothing is gratuitous. In Un peu de tendresse, the second part (after La Pornographie des âmes) of his trilogy Sociologie et autres utopies contemporaines, St-Pierre portrays the emotionally handicapped who, like drowning men, cling to a life raft that fell into the deep with them. His staging catapults some twenty dancers/actors – bearded, naked men, drag queens in blonde wigs and women wearing synthetic dresses – into an extreme confrontation with exhaustion. Venturing far from convention and dogma, the dance theatre of Dave St-Pierre is full of searing intensity and desolation, making of performance a raw, edgy portrayal.

With the assistance of Eugénie Beaudry, Enrica Boucher, Geneviève Bélanger, Luc Boissonnault, Emmanuelle Bourassa-Beaudoin, Julie Carrier, Karina Champoux, Francis Ducharme, Silke Grabinger, Renaud Lacelle-Bourdon, Sarah Lefebvre, Alexis Lefebvre, Simon-Xavier Lefebvre, Camille Loiselle-D'Aragon, Gabriel Lessard, Julie Perron, Eve Pressault-Chalifoux, Aude Rioland, Eric Robidoux, Sophie Dalès
Texts: Enrica Boucher
Technical direction and lighting design: Alexandre Pilon-Guay
Coproduction: Usine C (Montréal), Agora de la danse (Montréal), Maison de la culture Frontenac (Montréal), Sommer Szene Salzburg, JuliDans Amsterdam, Scène Québec, Centre national des Arts (Ottawa), Mouson Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt; Dance festival Munich, Théâtre Sévelin 36 Lausanne