Multidisciplinary theatre founded in 2010 in Quebec and Charlevoix
A Recto-Verso production in collaboration with Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences - Meylan and the Atelier Arts Sciences (joint research platform between artists and scientists)
Daniel Danis with The Moon Child, opens a new phase in research on the language of multidisciplinary productions. Inspired by a dream, transformed into a story, the Enfant lunaire is a quest towards bypassing or transforming codes of a stage production.
On a white square, a few mechanical objects designed by the artist Julien Maire, trace the lines of an imagined fable on the ground. The geometric layout defines the actor’s wandering steps as he unfolds the paper text. Step by step, sheet by sheet, we advance in the story as if we were walking on a large, white, well structured gridded page. Little by little, a map of different locations is being designed while mental images come alive through a poignant poem. The "Moon Child", an intimist play, talks about a time of disorder when political as well as economic authorities try to create an impression of fear to control populations, very often through the sacrifice of innocence.
Author, scenographic writer Daniel Danis / Interpreting actor Pierre-Félix Gravière / Scenography Julien Maire / Sound design Marc Doucet / One-cord instrument by Jean-Pierre Adam / Music advisor Marc Vallée / Conception costume Elene Pearson / Programming Yacine Sebti
Daniel Danis
Saguenéen d’adoption, Daniel Danis est l’auteur d’une dizaine de pièces de théâtre.
In 1993, his first work, Celle-là, won the Prix de la critique en création de texte and the Governor General's Award of Canada. His second play, Cendres de cailloux, won the Masque for best original text and the Radio France Internationale prize. Le Langue-à-Langue des chiens de roche won him a second Governor General's Award in 2002. In 2007, with Le Chant du Dire-Dire (first performed at Espace Go in the spring of 1998 and at the Théâtre de la Colline in Paris in September 1999), he won the Governor General's Award for a third time. In 2006, the Grand Prix de littérature dramatique 2006 was awarded to E, roman-dit in the French-language category. In 2010 for Terre océane, Daniel Danis was nominated for the Molières in the category of Living Francophone Author.
Published at Arche La Trilogie des flous (2010).
Daniel Danis has written for young audiences Le Pont de pierres et la Peau d'images, Kiwi, Sous un ciel de chamaille and Bled. In 2008, Kiwi was awarded three prizes: the Louise-LaHaye prize, presented by CEAD Diffusion, the Deutscher Jugendtheaterpreis and the AbitibiBowater Théâtre Literary Prize (Salon du Livre du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean).
Daniel Danis lives in Quebec City where his company is in residence at the Caserne Dalhousie. He is currently writing and directing his new show Yukie, a theatre-film that was presented at the Carrefour international de Théâtre festival (Quebec City) in June 2010.
Her plays are published by L'Arche Editeur (Le Chant du Dire-Dire, Le Langue-à-Langue des chiens de roche, E, Bled, Kiwi, Sous un ciel de chamaille, Terre océane), Actes Sud-Papiers/Leméac (Celle-là and Cendres de cailloux) and L'Ecole des Loisirs (Le Pont de pierres et la peau d'images). They have been translated and performed all over the world.
