Pluripop: Art Breaks Out
A Tribute to Pluridisciplinarity, Pluriculturalism, and Anything That Can be Defined as Plurivocal
Dance, Theatre, Music, Visual Arts, Drag
22 productions – 11 world premieres
MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) will celebrate the return of art in all its forms with a 24th season of Pluripop in its theatre and gallery in 2022-2023. On the program: 22 multidisciplinary dance, theatre, music and visual art productions, including 17 premieres (11 world premieres, 3 Canadian premieres and 3 Quebec premieres).
There’s no denying it: the last few years have been challenging and full of surprises. In the spirit of multiplicity and exuberance, MAI‘s new programming reflects the intense need to create in spite of constraints, and the urgency of sharing art in the flesh.
This season will be “PLURI-”, in homage to the plurality of multidisciplinary artists who will take the MAI stage to present their multi-vocal, multi-sensory, multi-dimensional works… And “Pluripop” because these creations blur the spheres of popular culture, taking on its codes in order to better shift, reinterpret or deconstruct them (Emile Pineault & Gabriel Cholette, Ivo Dimchev).
When they say “POP” they
also mean effervescence, joy, and the explosion of venues traditionally attributed to the various disciplines. The MAI gallery has never before attracted such a wide variety of works: a total of 10 creators will take over the space and transform it. Two artists (Be Heintzman Hope, Sasha Kleinplatz) will perform in both the theatre and the gallery.
Finally, the 2022-2023 season will feature unique artistic collaborations (Kevin Jung-Hoo Park & jin heewoong), two works that unfortunately had to be cancelled due to the pandemic (Imago Theatre, Daphne Boyer), as well as new creations by several MAI regulars (Daina Ashbee, Lara Kramer, Benjamin Kamino). The popular multidisciplinary dance performance Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ (Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Elisa Harkins, Zoë Poluch) will also be delivered as an encore, after its successful run at MAI in 2019.
IN THE MAI GALLERY
- Daphne Boyer, ‘fa…que’ (visual arts)
- Lara Kramer and Ida Baptiste, Ji zoongde’eyaang (installation)
- Sasha Kleinplatz, Miracle’ing/Close to Me/Close to You & We Move Together or Not at All (installation, dance)
- Bijuriya, HercuSleaze, BiG SiSSY, Phoenix Inana, Uncle Marly, 3 Happenings Queers (drag)
- Kevin Jung-Hoo Park and jin heewoong, Migrant Instability (visual arts)
- Roger White and Helen Simard, Because You Never Asked (interdisciplinary, dance)
- Be Heintzman Hope, Switch + Poetics to Activate the Technology of the Body + Nurse Tree (dance, installation)
- Jassem Hindi, Laundry of Legends II (dance)
- Paul Chambers, PHOSPHOS (installation)
IN THE MAI THEATRE
- Hanako Hoshimi-Caines + Elisa Harkins + Zoë Poluch, Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ (dance, music)
- Imago Theatre, Foxfinder (theatre)
- Hoor Malas, If My Body Had a Name (dance)
- Daina Ashbee, J’ai pleuré avec les chiens (TIME, CREATION, DESTRUCTION) (dance)
- Anh Vo, BABYLIFT (dance)
- Sasha Kleinplatz, Miracle’ing/Close to Me/Close to You & We Move Together or Not at All (installation, dance)
- Emile Pineault and Gabriel Cholette, rock bottom (dance, interdisciplinary)
- Ivo Dimchev, HALAL (music)
- Benjamin Kamino, carrier (dance)
- James Gnam, entre chien et loup (dance)
- Be Heintzman Hope, Switch + Poetics to Activate the Technology of the Body + Nurse Tree (dance, installation)
- Elisa Harkins, Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ (music)
