Rhodnie Désir | RD Creations

Symphony of hearts

2024-05-30 20:00 2024-05-30 22:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Rhodnie Désir | RD Creations

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/33697

In-person event

Featuring the National Arts Centre Orchestra.   

A pulsating beat of humanity in our social symphony perpetually under construction, this new work by choreographer and artistic director Rhodnie Désir unfurls a storm of bodies, sound compositions and immersive visual projections inspired by demographic and scientific data. This large-scale production featuring music and dance artists will transform the stage into a huge heart that invites the audience...

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Southam Hall,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
Thu, May 30, 2024
Thu, May 30, 2024
8 PM EDT
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Featured artists

  • rodnie-desir-for-nac-bio
    Creative Director, Choreographer and vocal composer Rhodnie Désir
  • bio-orchestra
    Featuring NAC Orchestra
  • In-person event
  • ≈ 75 minutes · No intermission
NAC Co-production

Featuring the National Arts Centre Orchestra.   

A pulsating beat of humanity in our social symphony perpetually under construction, this new work by choreographer and artistic director Rhodnie Désir unfurls a storm of bodies, sound compositions and immersive visual projections inspired by demographic and scientific data.

This large-scale production featuring music and dance artists will transform the stage into a huge heart that invites the audience to become aware of these rhythmic phenomena. The tension of a dancer–musician duet, a decagon of violins in an accelerating accompaniment to the plural bodies of Rhodnie Désir in balance, the tremolos of dancers in the orchestra pit silently beating out the rhythm: the collective result will burst forth like an ode to the power of the heart.   

Developed with the support from the NAC's National Creation Fund.  

Artists

  • rodnie-desir-for-nac-bio
    Creative Director, Choreographer and vocal composer Rhodnie Désir
  • bio-orchestra
    Featuring NAC Orchestra
  • jorane
    Musical and vocal composer Jorane
  • Conductor Naomi Woo
  • engone-endong-rd-creyations-photo-kevin-calixte
    Musician Engone Endong
  • 1-creydit-photo-mirabelle-ricard
    Musician Lasso (Salif) Sanou
  • marilyne-cyr-c-hugo-b.-lefort
    Dancer Marilyne Cyr
  • mara-dupas-credit-sonia-coppey
    Dancer Mara Dupas
  • camille-gendron-ks0a9100-credit-jeanne-tetreault
    Dancer Camille Gendron
  • portrait-aly-keita-creydit-karishma-pageau
    Dancer Aly Keita
  • luce-laine
    Dancer Luce Lainé
  • Dancer Emmanuelle Martin
  • mya-theresa-metellus-headshot2.891
    Dancer Mya Thérésa Métellus
  • carlos-alexis-mendoza-image
    Dancer Carlos-Alexis Mendoza
  • Dancer Ernesto Quesada Perez (Tiko)
  • photo-by-melika-dez-1
    Dancer Gregory Krypto Selinger
  • mijnheer-abe-nb
    Dancer Abe Simon Mijnheer
  • Executive Producer RC Créations
  • Chief Creative Director, choreographer, vocal composer and arrangements percussion Rhodnie Désir
  • Conductor Naomi Woo
  • Musical and vocal composer Jorane  
  • Beat and Sampling, sound designer Engone Endong
  • Orchestrator François Vallières
  • Costumes Designer Mélanie Fererro
  • Scenographer Olivier Landreville
  • Lighting designer Chantal Labonté
  • Video and digital designer Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin
  • Performers Marilyne Cyr, Mara Dupas, Camille Gendron, Aly Keita, Luce Lainé, Emmanuelle Martin, Mya Metellus, Carlos-Alexis Mendoza-Bustinza, Ernesto Queseda Perez, Greg «Krypto» Selinger, Abe Simon Mijnheer
  • Creative support Isabelle Poirier
  • Artistic consultant Philip Szporer
  • Musicians NAC Orchestra & House Band of RD Créations
  • Co-Producers Danse Danse, National Arts Centre, LAC Lugano arte e cultura
  • Main Partners National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund, National Film Board (NFB), Canada Council for the Arts
  • Creative Partners Montreal Heart Institute (MHI), Place des Arts
  • Artistic Associate Orchestre Métropolitain
  • Associate producer and technical director Frédérick Lalonde - JKFL Production
  • Production officer Cécile Doo-Kingue - RD Créations
  • Technical director Bruno Lauzon
  • Communications officer Caroline Rousseau - RD Créations
  • Consultant Production and Touring Corinne Jozsef
  • Representation agency Avec Sheila (Sheila Skaiem)