Tous en scène

Waltzing hesitations, inaccuracies, and brain-digging. This video by Mréjen is a behind-the-scenes look. The children sink, freeze, giggle and whisper. The image is here revealing of the corporality of the thought; we search while looking at the sky, the pronounced words make us shudder, we hesitate while shaking and we laugh to lose our balance. The back and forth game between the show and life is made clear by a clever absence of staging. The children fidget like movie actors, while their imagination has been forged in contact with the stagings they relate to us. Our lives will thus unfold, tirelessly, in a game of infinite ping-pong between oneself, the real and the representations of oneself and of the real, each of the dimensions feeding the other and modifying it without its knowledge. Who was there then in first? The chicken, the egg, or their image?

Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
Tënk's Artistic Director