Prism
Tentacle Tribe (Montréal)
October 23 - 26, 2024 | 7:30pm
October 26 - 27, 2024 | 2pm
Historic Theatre, The Cultch (1895 Venables St. Vancouver)
*October 24 performance will be followed by a talkback with the artists.
Get ready for Montréal-based Tentacle Tribe, whose singular style blends hip-hop, martial arts, and contemporary dance. Limbs, reality, and illusion intertwine in this not-to-be-missed kaleidoscopic voyage like no other.
With talent to spare and an abundance of imagination, the Canadian–Swedish creative duo of Emmanuelle Lê Phan and Elon Höglund deploy their tentacles in luminous spheres. They deepen their exploration of perception, illusion and the invisible, searching for what we cannot really grasp, what is hidden from words and the gaze.
A quintet of dancers move between a reflective floor and movable mirror panels that they can manipulate from different angles. Kaleidoscopically multiplied tenfold, their bodies seamlessly unite and intermingle, in synergy with Höglund’s music. Prism opens up a myriad of possibilities, distorting perspec- tives and deconstructing movement into infinite combinations of colourful images. A dreamlike journey with a truly hypnotic effect.