Rebellion of the minuscule
I want to transmit my vision of the beauty of the world. An awareness that the phenomena we see are the result of the complexity of the internal mechanisms between atoms: it is a sublime and wonderful feeling.
Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate in Physics1965
Upcoming show : 2023-24
Bookings
Flore Bailly
diffusion@auxecuries.com
Creators
Text and interpretation Antonia Leney-Granger
Director Évelyne Laniel
Interpretation Karine St-Arnaud
Set design Véronique Poirier
Lighting design and stage management Mélanie Whissell
Sound design Nicolas Letartre-Bersianik
Scientific counsel Stéphanie Jolicoeur
Partners
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Théâtre Aux Écuries
Théâtre de la Pire Espèce
Maison de la culture de Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie
Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges
Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto
Institut quantique (Quantum Institute, University of Sherbrooke)
Coeur des sciences (UQAM)
We are 99% emptiness.
And of the remaining 1%, little is known.
But we shall try to explain it to you anyway!
At the crossroads of the museum and the laboratory, this show invites the audience to a journey towards the infinitely small, with humor and visual poetry!
Quantum physics is complex, paradoxical, sometimes frustrating in its incomprehensibility. But it is also the heart, often strange or disturbing, yet essential, of our world.
Rebellion of the minuscule is a voyage into the depths of the atoms that make up everything that surrounds us. Where the simple fact of observing a particle changes its behavior in an unpredictable way.
An object theater show where artworks are built live. Where the images' low tech magic magnifies the sense of vertigo, as we move between the known and the unknown, certainty and the void, light and matter.
But the quantum world proves impossible to frame. Each new question reshapes our borders. And suddenly, the world slips through our fingers...
Research themes
Light or matter?
Work on the projection of images, shadows and objects by low tech means to blur the distinction between light and matter
Grasping the invisible
Making the infinitely small visible and materializing complex concepts through the evocative power of object theater
Abstract art and quantum physics
How these two fields of practice explore alternative and polysemic visions of the world where several interpretations coexist
History of project
2023-24
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Residency - Théâtre Aux Écuries
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Residency - Coeur des Sciences
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Premiere - Théâtre Aux Écuries
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Tour (Quebec)
2022-23
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Residency - Théâtre Aux Écuries and Théâtre de la Pire Espèce
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Residency - Maison de la Culture Janine-Sutto
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Residency - Maison internationale des arts de la marionnette
2021-22
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Residency - Théâtre Aux Écuries and Théâtre de la Pire Espèce
2020-21
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Accueil-éclair - Théâtre Aux Écuries and Théâtre de la Pire Espèce
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Residency - Maison de la Culture Rosemont
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Residency - Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges
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Work-in-progress presentation - Rencontre Théâtre Ados
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2019-20
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Second phase of research
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Artistic mentorship - Théâtre Aux Écuries et Théâtre de la Pire Espèce (Olivier Ducas)
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Lab presentation of work-in-progress - Festival Phénomena
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Labos du Renard -transdisciplinary outreach project with Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges
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Création dans l'oeuf - Festival Casteliers 2020
2018-19
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First phase of research
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Artistic mentorship - Théâtre Aux Écuries et Théâtre de la Pire Espèce (Francis Monty)
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Residency - Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges
2017-18
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Creation of two short forms around quantum physics
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Street performances in Quebec and France - Festival Ouf! Off Casteliers, Festival Marionnettes Plein la Rue, Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes (Charleville-Mézières, France)