Suites ténébreuses

This production marks the first collaboration between choreographer Hélène Blackburn and lighting designer Lucie Bazzo. Light, shadows, reflections, and ghostly colors—these intangible forces come together to sculpt the dancing bodies, transforming the performers into alchemists with the power to bring light forth from darkness. Bathed in the atmospheric music of the Montreal trio Dear Criminals, *Suites ténébreuses* shifts the known toward the unknown; the familiar becomes strange, and the unsettling becomes reassuring once more. From luminous objects to plays on light and shadow, the unexpected and the surprising take shape and unfold in a delicate suite that plays with our perceptions. Vulnerability, passion, and bite vie for dominance, revealing the contours of a space where minor anxieties, strange fascinations, and vivid pleasures intertwine...