BRIGITTE POUPART / CIE TRANSTHÉÂTRE
Jusqu'à ce qu'on meure
Not recommended for audiences under 8
Est. 2h
Brigitte Poupart, a leading artist in Quebec’s contemporary arts scene, travels back in time from an imaginary disaster to a time of innocence, inviting the audience to engage in an extraordinarily powerful ambulatory and sensory experience.
Actress, author, director, and filmmaker Brigitte Poupart blends theatre, acrobatics, contemporary dance, street dance, DJ sets, and even cinema (a short film is screened as a kind of prologue) to imagine a dystopia that is incredibly close at hand, palpable, and truer than nature. Twelve performers of varying provenance play the inhabitants of a devastated world. A disaster has struck. People can no longer speak, under penalty of mortal danger. Their bodies and gestures have become their only means of communication. Then begins the intimate, poetic, dreamlike reconstruction of the events that led up to this apocalypse. The audience follows this journey back in time alongside the performers, in a stunningly immersive, upside-down set design. Everyone “fabricates” their own performance depending on the viewpoint they choose, which they are free to amend at any time. This blurring of boundaries between the arts, between stage and audience, and between reality and fiction gives rise to a large-scale, emancipatory celebration which everyone, performers and audience alike, is invited to join.
Show with standing audience
This immersive show includes extensive smoke and lighting effects.
Earplugs are available upon request from the front-of-house staff.
SCHEDULE
The performance lasts 1 hour.
Audience members are invited to arrive 20 minutes before the showtime for the film screening.
They are also welcome to stay 1 hour after for the DJ Set or the music session.
The musical program changes each night:
December 13 at 7 p.m.
DJ Set by Belaria
December 14 at 3 p.m.
December 20 at 3 p.m.
Music playlist
December 14 at 7 p.m.
December 16 at 8:30 p.m.
December 17 at 8:30 p.m.
DJ Set by Kokoprisci
December 18 at 8:30 p.m.
December 19 at 8:30 p.m.
December 21 at 6 p.m.
DJ Set by Yambow
December 20 at 7 p.m.
DJ Set by Bartivy
Original idea, writing, artistic direction and staging Brigitte Poupart Original music Alex McMahon Choreography Marie-Ève Quilicot, Axelle Munezero Costume design Cédric Quenneville Lighting design Matieu Roy Lighting designer Étienne Labelle Sylvestre Makeup and hair Mélanie Bélisle Set design Brigitte Poupart, Patrick Binette Sound design Jacques Boucher Sound and lighting operator Rémy Jannelle Technical direction Étienne Labelle Sylvestre Head of scenery Jed Tomlinson Rigger Pascale Martin Stage manager Miro Leclair Ramirez, Mathilde Boudreau Production manager Ophélie Lacasse Performers Yury Paulau, Jeff Hall, Max Laurin, Yuma Arias, Fernando Gonzalez Bahamondez, Joy Isabella Brown, Kailey Klein, Eduardo Grillo, Athena Lucie Assamba, Marie-Reine Kabasha, Axelle Munezero, Marie-Ève Quilicot, Fabrice Pierre Executive producer Geneviève Lussier
Practical information
Grande Halle
Metro
Line 5 - Porte de Pantin station
Tramway
Line 3b - Porte de Pantin station
Bus
Bus 75, 151 - Porte de Pantin stop
Parking
Q-Park
Philharmonie
Q-Park
Cité de la Musique - La Villette
Q-Park
Cité de la Musique - Conservatoire
Parking
Cité des Sciences
Bike GH
Vélib' docking points
Bike racks
Electric bikes
A battery container is located in front of the Grande Halle.
- Vibrating vests / SubPac: Vibrating vests available on-site on Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18.12.
- Show with standing audience
- Accessible to people with reduced mobility (PRM). Please contact 01 40 03 75 75.
- Partially accessible to deaf individuals, depending on the programming.
- Partially accessible to individuals with hearing aids, depending on the programming.
- Partially accessible to visually impaired and blind individuals.
- Accessible to individuals with psychological, cognitive, and intellectual disabilities.
- Show with standing audience
- This immersive show includes extensive smoke and lighting effects.
- Earplugs are available upon request from the front-of-house staff.
- On-site dining before and after the show, offered by Soré.
- On-site dining before and after the show, to be discovered HERE.
Access to the venue is subject to a security check.
- The following are prohibited: all glass containers, sharp or blunt objects, weapons of any kind or replica weapons, animals except guide dogs for the blind, large luggage or bulky bags, and batteries for electric bikes or scooters.
- Security officers have sole discretion over which items are allowed or not.
- Bringing food into the performance hall is not permitted.