A daring dance creator unafraid of taking risks, Maguy Marin sounds the alarm with Salves. A frenzied marathon of furious madness, Maguy Marin choreographs our personal and collective chaos with fragmented staging distinctly her own. Since its 2010 premiere, the award-winning Salves has been acclaimed by critics and audiences alike. Compagnie Maguy Marin, returns to the NAC after more than a 25 year absence to perform Salves in the Theatre of the National Arts Centre on Thursday October 3 and Friday October 4 at 7:30 p.m.

ABOUT SALVES

Salves is spellbinding dance-theatre by one of France's most radical and poetic creators. Marin's manifesto is a masterful choreographic vision, a hail of gunfire -- subverting repetition, expectation, and variation -- in which images shatter and fury overcomes despair. This work of calculated chaos incorporates incredible characters and symbols in a series of vivid tableaux, both somber and ludicrous: a helicopter-borne figure of Christ, Marianne guiding the French Revolution, a shattered Statue of Liberty, even a slapstick food fight with buckets of bright paint. All are presented with a nod to renowned artists, from Goya to Picasso, Delacroix and Warhol, from Fellini to Elvis Presley. Salves features a piercing rhythmic score, seven dancers, and four vintage reel-to-reel tape recorders. Like a painting, an epic poem, Salves is a salvo of images, flashes of light like a series of uppercuts which raise the spectre of war and hatred, and show us the folly and absurdity of a world which has learned nothing from the horrors of history. In a mad rush to save what remains from destruction, Salves explores the power and hope of a united and combative humanity.

ABOUT MAGUY MARIN

The New York Times declared Maguy Marin "one of the most important choreographers in France." Born in Toulouse to Spanish parents, since the 1970s, dancer-choreographer Marin has been creating socially conscious dance pieces that have made her one of the most important figures of new French dance. She has received many awards, including a prestigious New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award and an American Dance Festival Award. She has created some forty works characterized by elements of theatre as well as choreographed movement. Since 1987, she has collaborated with composer Denis Mariotte on most of her pieces. Compagnie Maguy Marin was founded in Paris in 1980, presenting strong, disturbing works that break the established codes of dance and protest against bourgeois society. Since 1998, Maguy Marin has been the head of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux-le-Pape in Lyon, France.

Salves (2010)
CHOREOGRAPHY AND DESIGN Maguy Marin
IN ASSOCIATION WITH Denis Mariotte
ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHER Ennio Sammarco
TECHNICAL DIRECTION and LIGHTING DESIGN Alexandre Béneteaud
SET DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION Michel Rousseau
PROPS Louise Gros with Pierre Treille
COSTUMES Nelly Geyres
SOUND DESIGN Antoine Garry

Note: Partial Nudity

DURATION 70 minutes, no intermission

NAC DANCE PRESENTS A MASTER CLASS WITH COMPAGNIE MAGUY MARIN Ennio Sammarco and Laura Frigato, members of the Compagnie Maguy Marin will teach this three hour workshop for professional and advanced dancers. Participants will get an insight into the choreographic universe of Maguy Marin; a collective where everyone works in its singularity on the intentions of movement in the perspective of time, rhythm, space, moving body and hearing. Friday, October 4, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Rehearsal Hall B, National Arts Centre 53 Elgin Street, Ottawa (enter by stage door) Cost $25, payable in cash on site. FOR ADVANCED LEVEL DANCERS AND STUDENTS. AGED 14 AND UP. As space is limited, you MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE with Kirsten Andersen, Dance Outreach Coordinator, Email: kirsten.andersen@nac-cna.ca

Compagnie Maguy Marin performs Salves in the Theatre of the National Arts Centre on Thursday October 3 and Friday October 4 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $39, $48, and $52 for adults and $21, $25.50, and $27.50 for students (upon presentation of a valid student ID card).

Groups of 10 or more save 15% to 20% off regular ticket prices; to reserve your seats, call 613-947-7000, ext. 634 or e-mail grp@nac-cna.ca.

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Information:
Eleri Evans
Marketing and Communications Officer
NAC Dance
613 947-7000, ext. 379
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