LAST CREATION | 2019
I wanna be Michael Jackson
(’s guitar player)

Creation & interpretation  Marie Mougeolle
Music Mathieu Mougeolle
Dramaturgy Helen Simard
Artistic collaborator Enora Rivière
Lighting conception Hugo Dalphond
Costumes conception Camille Mougeolle
Rehearsal director Marijoe Foucher
Mentor Cyril Journet

I wanna be Michael Jackson (’s guitar player) explores the gestural and musical universe of pop music icon:
Michael Jackson.

Mixing masks and facades, Jackson is an alchemist of identity, a paradoxical being of both extraordinary and unspeakable, iconic and elusive stature. Marie Mougeolle uses this work to reflect on the hybrid practice of the musician-dancer of incomparable stage presence. Through her dialogue with the infamous celebrity, she morphs into a creature moulded by the live composition of sound. Her movement aligns minutiae with virtuosity to shed the body of its multifaceted layers, allowing for an androgynous, ageless, part machine part animal amalgamation between Jackson and herself to take shape. « I wanna be Michael Jackson (’s guitar player) » unveils a multitude of layers – both internal and external with varying levels of monstrosity – on the notion of identity. A dreamy yet rock filled piece, with an intimate approach and piercing impact.

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Diffusion: Tangente - Montreal October 2019, 24-27

https://tangentedanse.ca/evenement/lewka-mougeolle

artistic approach

Marie Mougeolle is a French-Canadian artist based in Montreal. Her artistic approach is first and foremost as an interpreter who creates and supports various projects, seeking to foster collaborations with her colleagues. Creating with her own body allows her to intimately connect with her sensorial experience and historicity. She is primarily working in solo form, surrounding herself with choreographic collaborators, musicians or dancers to dialogue with her initial material.

 Her work has an autobiographical quality, tethering content to the sensorial experience of the dancer as a creative driving force. Her pieces prioritize physical research, originating in transformation and integration, and are always rooted in an inner landscape filled with multiple personas and memories. Her work exposes the body in a perpetual morphing towards otherness. Acutely musical, her movement is both precise and rampant. She becomes a manifestation of a living identity as construct, plural and process-based, to be grasped as a complex entity in all of its agility.

biography

Originally from Saint Malo, France, Marie Mougeolle moved to Montreal in 2010 and quickly became an active member of the city’s thriving dance community. Early in her career, she collaborated on the projects lead by Katya Montaignac through the company ODNI. In 2014, she created her first solo creation, Entre autres, which she presented in France and Vietnam. Then in 2015, she joined forces with Liane Thériault to create the duet Mine de Rien, which was presented in Montreal at the OFFTA.

As an interpreter, Marie has collaborated with choreographers such as: Eduardo Ruiz Vergara (El silencio de las cosas presentes ; Mass-klo matisklo), Les Soeurs Schmutt (5 minutes avec..., Dans les nacelles de Pourpour), Sarah Dell'Ava (Ori ou les chambres du cœur, O), Sophie Corriveau and Katya Montaignac (Nous (ne) sommes (pas) tous des danseurs) and Helen Simard (Casually, Inconspicuously, As if Nothing Happened). She has also provided choreographic assistance to French choreographer Enora Rivière in her creative processes since 2018.

Parallel to her activities as an interpreter and creator, Marie is also a dance researcher. She holds an MA in dance from UQAM (2014) and has presented her research on the dynamics of interdisciplinary and collective creation at several conferences in Montreal (GRIAV, SCED) and France (Biennale de la danse de Lyon), as well as in a number of publications (JEU, L’Annuaire Théâtral) .

Marie is also a certified dance teacher and teaches at the École supérieure de ballet du Québec and the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal.