Description

Always created with relevance to the audience in mind, André Gingras’ work provides intelligent commentary on issues pervading our worldwide conscience – cultural identity, gene manipulation, the plight of refugees – presented in a thematically layered environment of arresting visual imagery, sardonic humor, and impeccable choreography.

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André Gingras Biography

André Gingras began choreographing in Holland in 1999. After an extensive career in dance and theater, his desire to explore a highly physical and visual personal language began to manifest itself. His movement research finds its inspiration in the martial arts, in breakdance, in the physical symptoms related to specific medical conditions and in post-modern dance and theater.

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Repertory >full repertory descriptions

The Autopsy Project
Comming soon...

Hypertopia (56 minutes)
Hypertopia is a full evening work for four performers deeply layered with video.

Lindenmeyer SYSTEM (70 min., site specific)
An environmentally specific production for seven performers, The Lindenmeyer System involves audiences in a farcical, black comedy inspired by human migration and cultural identity.

Sweet Flesh Room (55 min., trio)
In The Sweet Flesh Room Gingras examines the conditions we need in order to feel a sense of security.

CYP 17 (40 min., solo)
Forty minutes in length, CYP17 is a solo dance and video performance that creates a “freak show of the future,” probing questions about what our lives will be like in the wake of gene manipulation, super athletes and alien pregnancies.

Downloads and Links

Website: André Gingras

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