“I strut around
roundly,
full of sound,
soundly”
“Walking upright in take aways and
stowaways down
speakeasy alleyways
speaking easy your way”
“I come around all the time to toss up the bits unseen”
“You move around me,
a patch of sunlight
on a written page of pageantry”
Disorder
©Steffie Boucher, Disorder trailer
"Disorder" explores the duality that conceptions of order play in the lives of Cai Glover and Pierre-Olivier Beaulac-Bouchard and the roles they have been ordered into by way of their experiences with their respective identification with being d/Deaf.
Cai is caught in a sound mind with a hearing aid that lends a human sweetness to the cacophony of life, and a cochlear implant that provides an adequate amount of stimuli reflecting the world we live in. Pierre-Olivier is caught in a family web that demands a condition of normalcy from an artist that refuses to be communicatively and expressively stifled.
We intend to explore how the written word comes into contact with a spatial language (ASL) at its border of meaning; where does the literal sit still next to the flight of a signed language? Still yet, where does language fall short of the poetic body? A dancing body; meaningful and signifying beyond the grasp of language but within the grips of feeling.
©Nanc Price, 2024
Presentation
Edinburgh deaf festival in 2024
Montréal Arts Interculturels during I can’t hear, COCHLEAR, fundraiser showcase event in 2024
Studio 303, SPARK series in 2024
Festival Quartier Danses in 2023
Sound Off festival in 2023
Artistic and Technical team
Choreography | Cai Glover
Poetry | Cai Glover
ASL translation | Jennifer Manning
LSQ interpretation | Marie Penelle, Charline Marmet
Performance | Cai Glover and Pierre-Olivier Beaulac-Bouchard
Music | Anusha Kamesh
Light design | Étienne Fournier
Promotional Photography | Naila Kuhlmann
Show photography | Melika Dez, Nanc Price, Steffie Boucher
Press