Mankind's journey - Claude Lavoie Photo

Mankind's journey

Mankind's journey

She is versed in dance and multimedia. Her choreographies are enhanced with skilful visual effects.

We cooperated on two projects. Both times she was expecting, and both times I was struck by the contrast between the optimism assumed as a prerequisite to giving life and the dourness of the issues she tackled. Her work was rife with references to war and all its ensuing forms of devastation. At times, the tension resulting from the clash between the vulnerability inherent in her condition and the cruelty she depicted was unbearable.

At the fall of the curtain I was dumbstruck, no longer convinced that, as we usually take for granted, evil could ever be vanquished.

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Date of photograph : June 2003