A painting of Barbeau included in the live performance Century Song

A scene of the live performance Century Song with Marcel Barbeau work , Rosier-feuilles, serving as the backdrop to a dance by the show’s star – soprano Neema Bickersteth. Summer 2014.

Rosier-feuilles (1946), a iconique painting form Marcel Barbeau is part of the visuel of Century Song a live performance hybrid showcasing the extraordinary Canadian soprano NEEMA BICKERSTETH. Presented at The Gladstone in Ottawa on April 29-30 on the occasion of the Ontario Scene Festival , this multidisciplinary production created by the Volcano Theater compagny combines classical song, dance, projection and theater.

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Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, and Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, the show imagines a different way to negotiate history. Through the eyes and voice of our soprano protagonist – a kind of modern day “everywoman” – we move through the past century in Canada, using visual art and wordless song to explore the evolution of identity.

Century Song is a Canada/Germany artistic collaboration – an electro/acoustic danceopera showcasing a state-of-the-art video design by fettFilm and music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Olivier Messiaen, John Cage, Georges Aperghis, and Reza Jacobs, performed live.

Reference : http://nac-cna.ca/en/event/11203