Jusqu'à ce qu'on meure

Brigitte Poupart, a leading artist on Quebec's contemporary scene, travels back in time from the moment of an imaginary catastrophe to the moment of carefreeness, inviting spectators to an extraordinarily powerful wandering and sensory experience.
Mixing theater, acrobatics, contemporary dance, street dance, DJ set and even cinema (a short film is shown as a prologue), actor-actress-director-filmmaker Brigitte Poupart imagines an incredibly close, palpable, truer-than-life dystopia. Twelve performers from different backgrounds take on the role of inhabitants of a devastated world. A catastrophe has struck. People can no longer speak, on pain of mortal danger; the body and its gestures have become their only means of communication. This is the starting point for an intimate, poetic, dreamlike reconstruction of the events leading up to the apocalypse. The spectators follow this journey back in time, in the midst of the performers, in an immersive, upside-down scenography. Each spectator "builds" his or her own show from the point of view chosen, and is free to change it at any time. From this blurring of the boundaries between the arts, between stage and auditorium, reality and fiction, a great emancipatory feast is soon born, to which everyone, performers and spectators alike, is invited.

Stand-up show