L’Ombre de l’escargot
May 1-2, 2010
NAC, 53 Elgin Street
May 1-2, 2010
NAC, 53 Elgin Street
The story of a dance performed by a ballerina and a girl with a disability.
His sister Valerie is different from other little girls. She can’t talk, she can’t walk, and she can’t move properly. Stuck in her wheelchair, she curls up inside her shell like a snail. Valerie’s birthday is coming up, and her older brother would so much like to grant all the wishes he senses behind her mysterious gaze… One night he dreamed that Valérie suddenly started to dance. What if the graceful little ballerina on her music box were to come alive? Might the two of them, so very different, learn to trust each other? What kind of ballet would result from the meeting of a swan and a snail?
From young people’s theatre company Nuages en pantalon, a touching pas de deux about understanding things that are unfamiliar and unusual. Drawing on personal experience, director and artistic director Jean-Philippe Joubert stages a heartfelt tribute to bodies that move differently as he pursues his investigation into the expressive potential of physical performance.
His sister Valerie is different from other little girls. She can’t talk, she can’t walk, and she can’t move properly. Stuck in her wheelchair, she curls up inside her shell like a snail. Valerie’s birthday is coming up, and her older brother would so much like to grant all the wishes he senses behind her mysterious gaze… One night he dreamed that Valérie suddenly started to dance. What if the graceful little ballerina on her music box were to come alive? Might the two of them, so very different, learn to trust each other? What kind of ballet would result from the meeting of a swan and a snail?
From young people’s theatre company Nuages en pantalon, a touching pas de deux about understanding things that are unfamiliar and unusual. Drawing on personal experience, director and artistic director Jean-Philippe Joubert stages a heartfelt tribute to bodies that move differently as he pursues his investigation into the expressive potential of physical performance.