Rouge

Length 70 minutes
Premiered at Théâtre La Chapelle, Montreal, Febuary 22, 2008
Summary

In Red, everything moves, except the colour, explored in all its nuances. Things ferment and teem. On the stage, the accumulation of what wears the colour of blood, of shame, of emotion and of revolution, becomes hallucination, incessant crisis, engendering the multiplication of objects, clothing, foods, bric-à-brac, glasses, cadenced by the artist's actions and sudden questions. “What colour is this?” she asks before a red pepper. When the stage seems to give way under the vermillion, it is then the body that incorporates the possibilities of the colour in it and turns into organic matter: blood, of course, but also scratches, smothering, cries, an ever broader extension, always reinvented, of the world seen again under the sign of red. For the spectator, this isn’t simple entertainment or an exercise in style, but rather a variation on his own inner screen, where his fears, fantasies and desires are projected. Because red remains that diabolical colour in which everything is revealed. 

Credits

CONCEPTION AND INTERPRETATION Julie Andrée T.
CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITh Jean Jauvin and Laurent Maslé
MUSIC by Laurent Maslé
LIGHTING Design Jean Jauvin
PHOTOGRAPHER Guy L’Heureux, Vicky Sabourin

PRODUCTION Julie Andrée T., with the support of Daniel Léveillé danse
COPRODUCTION Festival TransAmériques and Centre chorégraphique national de Franche-Comté à Belfort
WITH THE SUPPORT OF the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Marie-Andrée Gougeon for Daniel Léveillé danse

Press excerpts

“ ... her movement/performance work, which avoids cute at all costs, is contemplative, confrontational and unmissable."
Hour, Review of Year 2009, Montréal

“ There were incongruous objects heaped up in suggested sensual situations, – this was all-out art, fierce and unrestrained, fuelled by instinct and a raw generosity. An hour of pleasure, all in all." -
La libre Belgique, juin 2009, Bruxelles

“ She was one of the best new artists at the 2010 Festival d’Avignon : Julie Andrée T., visual and performance artist, constructs with Rouge a monochrome spectacle that is at once playful and intense.… A body entirely engaged in an always quickening movement, with a voice that becomes more and more high-pitched in the obsessive expectoration of a mental wound that devours her and that she spits out in a crescendo of reds.” –
Beaux-Arts Magazine, mai 2011