Van Grimde Corps Secrets »Eve 2050«

How, in the near future, can the boundaries of the body and its identity be redefined? »Eve 2050« invites audiences to engage in an artistic, aesthetic and ethical reflection on the future of human beings and the body in an age of digital technology, biomedical advances and artificial intelligence.

Combining dance, video, music, visual and digital arts, the work takes on various forms to be presented in theatres, public spaces and online. The result is a fascinating integration of life and technology.

»Eve 2050« tells the story of Eve, who is constantly changing through the interactions of spectators and performers. Eve symbolizes the future human being: male, female, transgender, child, adult, a body enhanced by technologies or hybridized with other species.

In the stage production, the creators of »Eve 2050« assume 13 control of the audience’s gaze: the story unfolds in time and space on a conventional stage. The interactive devices managed via a single computer can be synchronized or dissociated, an integral part of Isabelle Van Grimde’s choreographic composition.

Through its three components, »Eve 2050« combines the vibrant force of actual physical presence with the magical transformations and ubiquity made possible by technology. Nature and culture are reconciled in this meeting between the primal body—its ancestral heritage expressed through a visceral gestural vocabulary—and the body of the future, transformed by its connection with technology.

Duration: 30 min, followed by an interactive tour of the installation

CREDITS

Artistic Director and Choreographer: Isabelle Van Grimde
Live Performers: Félix Cossette, Chéline Lacroix, Cara Roy, Emmanuelle Martin, Citlali Germé-Trevino, Evelynn Yan
Scenography: Jérôme Delapierre, Isabelle Van Grimde
Interactive visual design: Jérôme Delapierre
Music and sound design: Thom Gossage
Interactive sound design: Frédéric Filteau
Additional Programming: Daniel Evans
Interactive panel engineering: Rémi Vigneron
Sculptures »Family Portrait« on loan from the artist Marilene Oliver
Light table from »Dissections« of Anick La Bissonnière created for »The Body in Question(s)«
Costume design: Pascale Bassani, Isabelle Van Grimde
Costume research: Jérôme Delapierre, Manon Desrues
Costumes accessories: Marilene Oliver
Video production: DAVAI
Video performers: Alice Delapierre, Angélique Willkie, Brontë Poiré-Prest, Chi Long, Emmanuelle Martin, Erika Morin, Felix Cossette, Gabrielle Georges-Nicolas Tremblay, Justin De Luna, Kim Long, Marie Mougeolle, Marine Rixhon, Rhéa Sky Walsh, Sophie Breton, Soula Trougakos

Production Manager: Iloé Françon
Technical Director: Ganesh Baron Aloir
Production assistant: Grace McMorris
Technical assistant: Laura-Rose R. Grenier
Creation and production: Van Grimde Corps Secrets
Co-producers: Agora de la danse, National Creation Fund of the National Arts Center, Brian Webb Dance cie
Public partners : Developed with the Plan numérique du Québec. Eve 2050 is one of the 200 exceptional projects funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter Initiative.
Residencies: Agora de la danse, Espace Corps Secrets, Danse Danse, Arsenal Art contemporain
The artists and researchers who contributed to the reflections on EVE 2050: Dr. Cristian Berco (historian), Dr. Marie-Hélène Boudrias (neuroscientist), Marie Brassard (author, director and actress), Dr. Joanne Lalonde (art historian), Dr. François-Joseph Lapointe (biologist), Dr. Isabelle Lemelin (anthropologist), Dr. David Paquin (engineer and designer in new media), Darian Goldin Stahl (artist and student in the humanities), Dr. Monique Régimbald-Zeiber (visual artist and researcher on the relationship between the image, the written word and history), Raphaël Cuir (art critic and historian), Dr. Isabelle Choinière (artist and researcher in new contemporary performance practices), Roland Huesca (author and researcher in aesthetics and dance), Dr. Jacques Mateu (plastic surgeon), Dr Brad Necyk (visual and media artist), Marilene Oliver (sculptor and multimedia artist), Harold Rhéaume (choreographer), Dr. Hiba Zafran (occupational therapist)