Lucky Bastard

Initiated by choreographer Lynda Gaudreau, Lucky Bastard is a multidisciplinary laboratory bringing together artists from widely different fields. The notion of encounter is at the core of this event: the encounter between the participants, between the artists and the public, and between an artist and an idea.

Moving about "in the now", each artist receives a last-minute trajectory with time and space guidelines, as well as certain actions and gestures to execute. Each individual is unaware of the others' trajectories. Each one acts on his/her own and sometimes, without knowing it, in a duet or in a group. "More and more, there is a kind of formatting in performances. This is why I was searching for a different way of creating, away from the usual production schemas," explains the choreographer.

Is it a performance, a representation, or a creation process? "I wanted to develop a project bringing artists and the public together, but not necessarily based on what they have in common", specifies Lynda Gaudreau. "I am interested in things that don't go together, bastard associations. With Lucky Bastard, there will be no rehearsals, only meetings, successful or not, between creators of all disciplines."

Festival international de nouvelle danse

The first Lucky Bastard laboratory was created and directed by Lynda Gaudreau, as guest curator at the 11th Festival international de nouvelle danse in Montreal. It brought together more than thirty of the city's artists from dance and other fields (performance, sound and visual arts, etc.) for a series of four evenings of performances, improvisations and exchanges presented in a convivial and surprising atmosphere.

Credits

Public presentations: October 2 to 5, 2003, Society for Arts and Technology (Montreal, Canada)

Artistic direction
Lynda Gaudreau

Coordination
Lynda Gaudreau, Christof Migone

Conception
Lynda Gaudreau, Christof Migone, Martin Tétreault

Lighting
Nicolas Marion

Consultation
Pierre Tanguay

Video shooting
Marlene Millar

Artists
Magali Babin, Sarah Bild, Sonya Biernath, Lina Cruz, Jean Derome, AnneBruce Falconer, Florence Figols, Alain Francoeur, Jackie Gallant, Louis Guillemette, Karen Guttman, Marcelle Hudon, Peter James, Danielle Lecourtois, Alexis O'Hara, Maya Ostrofsky, Maryse Poulin, Guylaine Savoie, Pierre-Paul Savoie, Alexandre St-Onge, Sioned Watkins, Sarah Williams

Installations
Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Diane Morin

Festival Île Danse

From May 14 to 16, 2004, Lynda Gaudreau developed a second Lucky Bastard laboratory during the Festival Île Danse in Ajaccio (Corsica). For this occasion, ten dancers, actors, musicians and guest artists of this seventh edition of the Festival took over Espace Image (a huge outdoor structure located in the town harbour) to create artistic moments according to precise but totally open-ended instructions.

Credits

Public presentations: May 14 to 16, 2004, Espace Image (Ajaccio, Corsica)

Artistic direction
Lynda Gaudreau

Concept
Lynda Gaudreau, Christof Migone

Scenography
Lynda Gaudreau, Christof Migone

Lights
Lucie Bazzo

Performers
Jean-Marc Fillet, Sandra Trambouze, Rafaël Alvarez, André Castro, Karen Schoenemann, Christophe Polart, Massimo Biacchi, Deniz Olgay Yamanus, Anne Delahaye, Varinia Canto Vila, Anna Velasquez