{"id":8018,"date":"2023-08-23T16:49:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T20:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casteliers.ca\/preludes-a-la-miam\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T11:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T16:51:09","slug":"preludes-a-la-miam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/casteliers.ca\/en\/preludes-a-la-miam\/","title":{"rendered":"Preludes at the MIAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Launched in 2021, this initiative provides the opportunity for artists to present their work in progress, followed by a discussion with the audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BALLET DES OMBRES<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>A performance by Catherine Gignac<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, April 24, 2025, at 3:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, April 25, 2025, at 7 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MIAM &#8211; Maison internationale des arts de la marionnette<\/strong><br \/>\n30, Saint-Just Avenue<br \/>\nMontr\u00e9al (Qu\u00e9bec) H2V 1X8<br \/>\n514-270-2717<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Ballet des ombres<\/em><\/strong> is a 45-minute artistic and poetic performance without words featuring live sand drawings relayed through a video projector. Moving in time with the music, Catherine creates ephemeral images in the sand. She works on a light table set before a live audience, as her creations come to life on a video projection screen. This creative fusion takes the audience on a magical visual adventure.<\/p>\n<p>In a fast-paced world of technology and performance, <strong><em>Ballet des\u00a0Ombres<\/em><\/strong> offers us a chance to rediscover slowness, the essentiality of nature, and contemplation, set against a backdrop of classical music, tango and opera. The use of sand as a medium allows for a continuous transformation of the images, creating a sense of surprise for the audience, who remain captivated from beginning to end.<\/p>\n<p>Sand drawing lives in the moment. It has a random, ephemeral quality: each drawing is unique and changes from one performance to the next. Sand gives an impression of fragility and a particular grain to the image, making this art form all the more expressive.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[.\u00a0.\u00a0.] Catherine gave the story an extraordinary emotional power and made me cry at each of her appearances. I understood what it means to admire a work of art to the point of feeling that strange emotion in the presence of art, that moment when art transcends words to touch the soul.\u00a0.\u00a0.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0St\u00e9phanie Girardeau, spectator, <em>Fr\u00e9tillant et Agile<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Language: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without words<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Running time:<\/strong> 45 minutes<br \/>\n<strong>Technique:<\/strong> Sand theatre<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<strong>Audience:<\/strong> Adults, accessible to youth 10 years +<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"witharrow\">TICKETS<\/h2>\n<p class=\"details_prix\"><strong><span class=\"prix_tag prix_adultes\">FREE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reservations required<\/p>\n<p>MIAM &#8211; Maison internationale des arts de la marionnette<br \/>\n30 Saint-Just Avenue<br \/>\nMontr\u00e9al (Qu\u00e9bec) H2V 1X8<br \/>\n514-270-2717<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lepointdevente.com\/billets\/preludesalamiamballetdesombres\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TICKETS FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 24 &#8211; 3:30 p.m.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lepointdevente.com\/billets\/preludesalamiamballetdesombres\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TICKETS FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 25 &#8211; 7 p.m.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"witharrow\">VIDEO<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bande-annonce Ballet des Ombres\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0WjTVBORFC4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"witharrow\">ARTIST<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Catherine Gignac<\/strong> is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersection between visual arts and shadow theatre. A sand theatre designer and performer, she is a pioneer in the field in Canada and has established it as her specialty. Catherine holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in French literature and studied at the \u00c9cole des\u00a0Beaux-Arts de\u00a0Montr\u00e9al. She also studied visual arts in Florence, Italy, in 2023. She is currently working with storyteller Jocelyn Sioui on <em>Fr\u00e9tillant et Agile<\/em> (sand theatre design and performance<strong>). <\/strong>The show premiered on October\u00a031, November\u00a01 and 2, 2024, at Espace le vrai monde? in Montr\u00e9al, and is currently on tour across Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine presented her solo show <em>R\u00eave de sable<\/em> at the OUF! Off Festival de Casteliers (2024) and at the Festival Marionnettes Plein la rue (2024). In 2023, she was a finalist for the Bourses ForCGal, which recognize innovative visual artists, for her work <em>Carnaval<\/em>. <em>Ballet des ombres<\/em> is her latest creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launched in 2021, this initiative provides the opportunity for artists to present their work in progress, followed by a discussion with the audience. &nbsp; BALLET DES OMBRES A performance by Catherine Gignac &nbsp; Thursday, April 24, 2025, at 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 25, 2025, at 7 p.m. &nbsp; MIAM &#8211; Maison internationale des arts de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":28,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-8018","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Preludes at the MIAM - Casteliers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/casteliers.ca\/en\/preludes-a-la-miam\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Preludes at the MIAM - Casteliers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Launched in 2021, this initiative provides the opportunity for artists to present their work in progress, followed by a discussion with the audience. &nbsp; 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