I was invited to work with Sonia Rodriguez for a week by Robert Binet as part of a new Micro-Commission program at the National Ballet of Canada.

For this project, I was inspired by Sonia’s history as a performer, and I wanted to use drama, especially famous death scenes of the female heroine, such as the ones that can be seen in a few classical and dramatic ballets, as a starting point for this collaboration to explore the notion of death or loss (of identity, of a loved one, of any object of desire or attachment) through dance.

Generally, in my work I value softness, so the question of how to tackle the notion of end or loss, i.e. death, in a dramatic context while staying true to my interests in subtlety, simplicity and embodied consciousness intrigued me.