DURATION 45 minutes / General audience, 16 years +
One of the best current shows…the use of lighting, inside and outside the costume, conjures up the pastel glimmer of northern lights and the flames of a forest fire.
— The Guardian, Lyndsey Winship
Habitat is a multidisciplinary solo inspired by the life cycle of hermit crabs, serving as a metaphor for the artist’s emigration journey from Uruguay to Canada. Hermit crabs don’t have a shell; instead, they house themselves in objects according to their size. As they grow, their object becomes limiting and uncomfortable, so they look for a new one.
This multidisciplinary piece combines movement, sound, a paper sculpture named Hermes (made of 600 articulated paper cones) and lighting. All elements are controlled in real time by the performer, and serve as her shell, her habitat. The lighting and sculpture create beautiful visual effects reminiscent of aurora borealis. All these elements make of Habitat a hypnotic poetic experience with an aquatic eerie atmosphere.
Creative Team:
- Choreography and performance: Bettina Szabo
- Sculpture: Jacinthe Derasp
- Musical composition: Ana Dall’Ara Majek and Joel Lavoie
- Dramaturgy: Morena Prats
- Wearable electronics: Alexandra Bachmayer
- Costume: Anomal Couture
- Rehearsal direction: Laurie-Anne Langis, Annie Gagnon and Philippe Poirier
- Lighting design: Paul Chambers
- Spatialization: Thibaut Carpentier
- Technical direction: Audrée J. Lewka
- Management: Aaron Fernandes
Presented at:
Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh 2023, Lightning Guerrilla Festival, Ljubljana 2023, International Figuren Theater Festival, Nuremberg 2023, La Rotonde, Quebec 2023,CAM on Tour, Montreal 2023, BIDAM, Busan 2022, La Fundicion, Bilbao 2022
Habitat is co-presented with PuSH International Arts Festival in Vancouver
