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Montreal, June 13, 2023 – It’s on! The queer choir collective gave its first performances of (Re)faire choeur queer at the Conservatoire’s Studio Jean-Valcourt (4750, rue Henri-Julien) as part of the Fringe. There are still four dates left in this wild adventure!
In this performance, the sounds of a thunderstorm mix with Gregorian chant from who knows where. Conversations cross and clash. We reassure the floor and we sing for it, as it carries the weight of the world. Vocal dreams are fulfilled and kazoos are transformed into singing whales.
Vocal explorations we did during some workshops were used as material to develop an improvisational framework for the performance, which results in a succession of tableaux that thwart the audience’s expectations of a choral form. Our approach to the choir is transdisciplinary, as it is neither clearly musical, nor completely narrative, nor perfectly choreographic, but all at once.
The collective was born out of the master’s project in theater by Jade Préfontaine, an artist-researcher studying at UQAM. The performers (and co-creators) are queer people with a vocal practice brought together by the desire to form a weird choir and they benefit from the contribution of the sound designer Annie Préfontaine.
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