In the weeks leading up to Guelph Dance Festival 2013, some of the amazing dance
artists who will perform at the Festival will also share their vision with us
here on the blog. These intimate, behind-the-scenes looks will bring us closer
to the artistry, process, and experience of dance. We encourage you to not just
read these amazing stories, but to ask questions or engage in conversation
about dance in our comments section below. Welcome to our 15th
anniversary year!
Mélanie Demers, choreographer and founder of Mayday, offers us a French-language video
interview that examines the major creative forces behind her work, featuring Junkyard/Paradise and other pieces. Mayday presents at our On
the Stage B performance on Saturday, June
1, 8pm, at the River Run Centre. Talkback session to follow. Book your
tickets now!
Mélanie: Choosing
choreography as a career is a really reckless statement. It's not dangerous but
it's delicate. In my case, it only allows me to create through other people's
bodies. It gives a strange sense of power while surrendering most of my views
to other people sensibility. After 5 years at the head of Mayday, I was given
the chance to reflect upon the path behind and the road ahead. Followed and
interviewed by director Xavier Curnillon, during a few stepping stones in the
last few years, I got to reveal the motivations behind the need to move and to
make other people move. The Mayday crew is formed by a group of committed
artists and most of my inspirations come from and is embodied through their
highly articulated body intelligence. And with them, Mayday becomes something
that goes beyond my only preoccupations, trying to grasp the era and the
society in which we live in. In a way, dance, for me, is a genuine attempt to
propel us further in the perpetual movement of life.
Since its creation in
2007 by Mélanie Demers, Mayday has been a place of creation and
reflection where physicality and poetry are characteristic elements of her
singular works and testimony to her concerns for contemporary issues.
Well-known for sensible, political, and poetic pieces, Mayday presents works
across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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