Tracing the hypersensitive actions and exposed vulnerabilities of intimate human relationships, choreographer Sylvie Desrosiers’ douce tourmente reflects on the authentic moments and physical manifestations of a relationship’s evolution. Within an immersive environment of sound and video created by Jeremy Mimnagh, interpreters Heidi Strauss and Marc Boivin create a powerful private world. Dramatic purpose is revealed, relations are built, and through a fragmented exploration of spatial expansion and fragmentation that is reflective and provocative, the couples altering strength renders a moving fragility.

Sylvie Desrosiers is a founding member of Ottawa Dance Directive (ODD) / Centre de danse contemporaine and was the 2011 winner of the Prix pour la création artistique du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec pour la région de l’Outaouais. She created DORSALE danse as a place to promote innovative dance research, creation, production, presentation and educational initiatives.