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2022
performance

Presented at the Centaur Theatre in partnership with LA SERRE – arts vivants, the Wildside Festival 
and La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines.

Co-creation - Sydney McManus and Jean Bui
Performers - Sydney McManus and Keanu Uchida
Outside Eye - Nate Yaffe
Scenography - Pénélope et Chloë
Lighting Design/Technical Direction - Roxanne Bédard
Delegated production - LA SERRE – arts vivants
Co-production - Diagramme Gestion Culturelle

With support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts de Montreal, 
and the Conseil des Arts et des lettres du Québec.
Measuring the mundane. Close to each other, two bodies try to coexist. The shapes and fabrics intertwine to the point where it becomes difficult to determine their belonging. Unexpected complications loom as intentions turn into actions. Overlapping decisions generate constraints. Finally, by giving in to the decisions of the other in search of a compromise, we tend to complicate what should have been simple.

Without artifice or backstage, jean & syd explore the choreographic interconnections between functional design and minimalist body language. Everything here revolves around balance between sincere and simple gestures, expressive colours and abstraction. Their environment activates like a canvas, a surface ready to be invested with imagination and improvisation. Their movements, measured but never forced, are reduced to their purest essence. The duo’s symbiosis is sublimated through an exceptional synchronicity and implacable gentleness.