Fiction du désir

La fiction du désir (Étude #2)
Choreography Manon Oligny

with the artistic collaborator, Sophie Michaud

Photographie de Yanick Mc Donald

and the performers:
Anne-Marie Boisvert, Fabrice Boutique, Mathilde Monnard and Jacques Moisan

Music arrangement:
Luc Mireault-Hémon

Set design and Costumes:
Oligny sisters

Lighting: Caroline Ross

Show's aesthetician: Geneviève Oligny

Typography for the video:
Pierre-Etienne Lessard

Texts:
Daniel Desputeau

Length: 60 minutes

This piece, second in the On the Body triptych, treats the mechanisms of seduction and relationships between men and women, using the evanescent forms of Anne-Marie Boisvert, Fabrice Boutique , Mathilde Monnard and Jacques Moisan .

In La fiction du désir (Étude #2) , the dancers' bodies interact in a multiplicity of movements, where legs are spread a little too easily to express excess and get carried away. Manon Oligny's choreography reflects her research on body image and how the body is positioned in the processes of seduction, in power/submission relations and the phenomena created by meetings and isolation.

Manon Oligny leads us through a series of notebooks, or «desire notebooks», which reveal themselves as if they were secrets. The sequences are organised and assembled in this structure. The different layers of the piece come together, with no filters, to create a rich, suggestive, «hot», sexy atmosphere. The movements are carnal, the universe permissive, the violence consensual and the codes violated. In this universe, you risk it all for nothing.

One thing is stronger than passion: illusion. The passion for illusion is stronger than sex, stronger than happiness. To seduce, always seduce. Seduction defuses the power of erotica with the power of strategy, of the game...To be able to master even the most diabolical ironic strategies in the throes of passion, therein lies the form of the illusion, seduction, passion's sly genius. Jean Baudrillard, Les stratégies fatales