Orpheus
Alan Lake Factori(e) (Canada)
Descent // Transformation // Dream
Orpheus reimagines the myth of descent as a visceral dance through darkness toward connection and renewal. Choreographer Alan Lake constructs an immersive world of image and movement where body, matter, and light converge—oscillating between dream and reality. Within this charged landscape, the performers navigate rupture and transformation, their physicality both raw and transcendent.
Lake’s choreography merges the mythic and the human, urging us to face the fractures of our humanity—division, conflict, isolation—and to reach for one another. Both intimate and monumental, Orpheus is dance as myth, as mirror, as act of faith—inviting us to drink from the fire and emerge changed.
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Artist Bio
Alan Lake
Alan Lake is a choreographer, dancer, director and visual artist with a keen interest in the symbolic. He studied at École de danse de Québec and, In 2003, founded the Alan Lake factori(e) in Quebec City. Past productions include Ravages; Chaudières, déplacements et paysages; and Là-bas, le lointain.
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Venue
600 Hamilton Street, Vancouver
Content Advisory
Brief nudity
Showtimes & Tickets
Access Alan Lake’s film Parades when you purchase an in-person or digital ticket for Orpheus.
Please note: higher tiered ticket types are subject to top-up charges when redeeming a PuSh Pass for live performances.
Online
Online: Jan 30–Feb 8
Digital Tickets: $29
Access Alan Lake’s film Parades when you purchase an in-person or digital ticket for Orpheus.
Accessibility
Highly visual, no speaking
Credits
Choreography Alan Lake in collaboration with the performers Performance Josiane Bernier, Alan Lake, Victoria Côté, Jo Laïny Trozzo Mounet, Danny Morissette, Odile-Amélie Peters, Esther Rousseau-Morin, last dancer TBA. Original Music Antoine Berthiaume Lighting Design Chantale Labonté & Achille Martineau Set Design Alan Lake Factori[e] Scenography Collaborator Vano Hotton Props Fabrication Janie Gagnon Scenic Painting Coralie Dansereau Rehearsal Direction Eve Rousseau-Cyr Technical Direction Achille Martineau Stage Technician Claudio Castillo
This project was made possible with the financial support of the Ville de Québec, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Co-produced by Carré 150 – Espace culturel de Victoriaville.
Created in part during residencies at: Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Circuit-Est Centre Chorégraphique, CCOV/Théâtre Lab2m, and Carré 150 – Espace culturel de Victoriaville. We are deeply grateful for their support.
Special thanks for support from CCOV, La Remise Culturelle, Théâtre du Trident, Maison pour la Danse, and Brent Belsher.
Funding by Ville de Québec, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Canada Council for the Arts.