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CORPUS is going down under!
From March 8 to 11, catch the magic as CORPUS lights up Australia with Les moutons and Divine Interventions!
Our goddesses, accompanied by our flock of sheep, will fly away from Canada for the first time since their descent to our dear Earth. Heading to Adelaide for the WOMADelaide, an internationally acclaimed festival featuring dancers, artists and musicians from over 30 countries. We are thrilled to be part of this diverse lineup!
Australian friends, save the dates! Divine Interventions is set for March 8-9, and Les moutons will be featured on March 10-11. 🗓️
Location: Adelaide Botanic Park 🌺Stay tuned, schedules will be announced soon! 🌟
Photo: Jae Yang
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Les moutons turns 20 in Québec City
Photo Credits: Geoff Bouckley 2023 is an exceptional year for CORPUS. Our emblematic production, Les moutons, celebrates its 20th anniversary. Yes, it’s already been 20 years! And we’re going to make the most of it – we are going to Quebec City for 11 days of performances during the renowned comedy festival ComediHa!.
📅 From August 9 to 20. We can’t wait to meet you there or to share our adventures with you from afar through our Instagram account.
“Les moutons has always defied classification, which explains its long life. But it was always meant to be a surreal, absurd comedy,” said David Danzon, Artistic Director, CORPUS and co-creator of Les moutons. “What a wonderful way then to celebrate 20 years of Les moutons, performing at this renowned comedy festival!”
Photos Credits: Ahmed Hayman on the left.
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CORPUS in the City
Divine Interventions surprises you on the streets of Toronto!
Our goddesses bring a unique performance to every corner of the city, through CORPUS in the City. In your neighborhood, in front of your favorite store, or even on public transit… our goddesses are ready to surprise you where you least expect them. Get ready to be amazed by their powerful voices and watch their precious bike around a street corner. Divine Interventions takes over the city like never before. 🌟 add Dora awards nominations
Where to find them?
📌 Yorkville, Toronto. 📅 September 16th & 17th (time will be announced soon)
📌 Kensington Market, Toronto. 📅 September 23rd & 24th (time will be announced soon)
Follow all the twists and details in real-time on Instagram @corpusdanceprojects.
Where did our goddesses go this year?
📌 They were at the DO West Fest. 📅 Friday, June 9th and Saturday, June 10th. Relive their fantastic performances on our Instagram.
Photos Credits: Jae Yang Photography.
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CORPUS in the Junction
4 months of street interventions in The Junction BIA have come to an end. Every Saturday from September 3 to December 24, 2022, from 2 to 4 PM, CORPUS featured a series of four comedic, poetic and free street performances at multiple locations! The public was treated to the fantastical word of CORPUS, right on the street.
A huge thank you to the businesses for their support and willingness to interact with us, to the audience for showing up whether it was very warm or pouring rain, and to our VERY talented performers who have truly made a positive impact on the neighborhood.
In summary:
We started on September 3rd with Divine Interventions. For a whole month, our three goddesses and their messenger Raya brought joy to the streets with songs, dances, and glances.
In October, three mysterious sleepwalkers took over The Junction. That was Nuit Blanche – we had so much fun discovering the neighbourhood through their sleepy eyes!
Hear, Hear, Good People of Toronto! In November, the whole neighbourhood was turned into a kingdom with Camping Royale. Every Saturday, our beloved Queens Louise & Sophie-Charlotte and their loyal servant tried to set up camp in The Junction before going back to their warm castle.
To celebrate the Holiday spirit in style, we brought back the popular Alpine Merry Sheep Choir. Our shepherd and his three most talented sheep sang their favorite Christmas carols for Window Wonderland TO.
Photos: Jae Yang Photography.
Thank you for following us – find out where we’re going next right here!
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In partnership with the City of Toronto, the Government of Canada, and FedDev Ontario, The Junction BIA has been granted The Main Street Innovation Fund, enabling the development of this immersive program. The Government of Canada funds this project through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario.
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5 Dora Awards Nominations
Wow! CORPUS was nominated for five Dora Awards by TAPA Toronto. We are thrilled!
Divine Interventions had 3 nominations:
Outstanding New Musical
Anika Johnson, David Danzon, Matthew O’ConnorOutstanding Musical Direction
Anika JohnsonOutstanding Original Choreography
Matthew O’Connor and Bonnie KimAnd La bulle had 2 nominations:
Outstanding Production
La bulle –CORPUS presented by Théâtre français de Toronto and JamiiOutstanding Achievement in Design
Scenic Design: David Danzon, Carolin Lindner
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La bulle at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe!
Exciting news! Our show La bulle was selected to participate in Spotlight Canada at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! David Danzon, CORPUS’ artistic director, and co-founder was there to present the show.
La bulle features a one-of-a-kind bubble tent (a character in its own right) and its confined inhabitant: Pierrot, the iconic loner, and dreamer. The show premiered in France and in Toronto last year. This year, it is touring to US, Sweden, and France. Availability for 2023 and beyond.
🗓️ We were at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on Monday, August 22, 2022.
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Casting Call
photo by Ahmed Hayman CORPUS’ signature piece Les moutons is celebrating 20 years!
With over 1000 performances in 35 countries on 5 continents, 20million + views on social media, this timeless work continues to baffle audiences worldwide.
To celebrate this unlikely anniversary, Harbourfront’s Junior Festival is presenting Transhumance, a 20-sheep version of Les moutons.
The company is looking for performers from all genders and cultural backgrounds.
We are an equal opportunity employer. Artists of diverse backgrounds and from equity seeking groups are encouraged to apply.
Audition Date(s): Wednesday, January 24th
Call back: Thursday, January 25h
Audition Location: Dovercourt House
805 Dovercourt Rd – 3rd Floor, Toronto.Audition Requirements: All performers must fill out this questionnaire and e-mail a current photo, and resume to: shepherd@corpus.ca.
Before Friday, January 19th at noon.Applicants must be available for rehearsal and performance dates:
May 13th –21st 2024 and must be available for the call-back.Only selected applicants will be invited to audition.
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MIX
Not your usual Facebook LIVE event: Three cameras brought three different views of this site-specific online performance in early 2021. “MIX” took place over 4 nights and featured a different 5-min live-online experience combining a concert, a dance performance and a site-specific multi-perspective journey, each night. Sing-a-long to classics which were chosen to reflect our community and what we are facing collectively, during this pandemic.
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Sheep in Quarantine
Toronto-based dance theatre company CORPUS, well known for its world travelling creation Les moutons (more than 1000 performances in 38 countries on 5 continents), presents a live Zoom performance for strange times. Our sheep performers stuck at home, following cancellations of international tours due to Covid-19.
Hannah Jocelyn writes:
If your attention span has been waning and your urge for comforting content waxing, might I suggest an absolute delight that is as brief as it is bright: “Sheep in Quarantine,” available on YouTube from Toronto-based dance-theatre company CORPUS. Since 2003, their signature piece “Les moutons” has been performed over four hundred times in more than twenty-five countries, and like many previously in-person performances has now been reimagined for an online adaptation in support of out-of-work artists. The wonderfully strange, speech-free eleven-minute video opens to a now-familiar Zoom screen; a group of dressed-down dancers are awaiting a meeting from their homes (in Vienna, Ottawa, Montreal, London, Toronto, and Bournazel). We watch as the dancers wiggle into lumpy mutton uniforms, complete with clanging neck bells, while a French folk song plays lambently in the background. They drop into character in time for their shepherd to appear in his Zoom square, wearing a surgical mask and carrying a staff. Embodying a flock, their eyes slide gently out of focus, ears twitch, and nostrils flare, as they bleat and work their imaginary cud and wander their limited spaces. Sometimes a sheep ambles out of frame, or climbs atop her bed. When the shepherd dozes off, we enter his dream. Accompanied by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz of the Flowers,” the woolly beasts launch into a balletic romp among their own furniture: one uses her kitchen counter as a balance, another his window sill. It’s as graceful as can be when adorned with what must be several pounds of stuffing. I won’t ruin the surprise of what comes next; I’ll just say that the absurdity only adds to the fun. In a time when nothing is as it was, the purposeful playfulness of people pretending to be sheep pretending to be ballerinas is simply a joy to behold. -
The Alpine Merry Sheep Choir
In December 2020, during the challenging times of COVID-19, CORPUS brought a very special version of “Les moutons” to households around the city. “Les moutons Holiday-Gram,” a funny, heart-warming project with our shepherd and three of his most talented sheep singing Christmas carols right on people’s front porches. We sang on 40 porches, for 40 families, for around 160 people.
In the following year, in 2021, we were very excited to be part of The Junction’s Window Wonderland, a free immersive urban art walk, with an interactive, outdoor gallery. We piloted our collaboration by having our caroling sheep sing Christmas carols in front of every of the 21 unique augmented reality (AR) installations designed by 40 local and international artists.
Now a holiday favorite in Toronto, the Alpine Merry sheep Choir will be at the Winter Market at St-Lawrence Market and the Upper Canada Mall in December 2025!
