
Crypto
Côté Danse
Hydro-Québec Auditorium
From dancer-choreographer Guillaume Côté (Frame by Frame, The Little Prince) and librettist Royce Vavrek (Angel’s Bone, 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music) comes a dynamic work of dance infused with theatre and digital arts. Featuring the music of Swedish composer Mikael Karlsson, Crypto is a groundbreaking work about forced displacement and the human need to control and transform beauty in wholly unnatural ways. Côté and Vavrek create a dynamic and complex narrative that allows us to dive into the vast and varied musical landscape of the work, performed by a stellar cast of artists and dancers: Guillaume Côté, Greta Hodgkinson, Natasha Poon Woo and Casia Vengoechea.
What People Are Saying...
“The FASS audience roared with a sustained standing ovation. In no small measure, Côté’s charming presence, not to mention his technically strong dancing, assured that reaction.”
“One of the finest male dancers in the world.”
«la force de Crypto, à mon avis, réside dans la danse elle-même, à savoir l’interprétation et l’exécution des mouvements par quatre artistes qui ont su performer avec brio, et ce, tout au long du spectacle»
Performers
Guillaume Côté
Greta Hodgkinson
Natasha Poon Woo
Casia Vengoechea
Credits
Created by Guillaume Côté
From an original story by Royce Vavrek
Choreography and Direction Guillaume Côté
Story and Text Royce Vavrek
Composer Mikael Karlsson
Set and Video Design Mirari / Thomas Payette and Mylène Chabrol
Lighting Design Simon Rossiter, based on the original design of Étienne Boucher and Jean-François Piché
Costume Design Christopher Read
Animation Motion Designer Joshua Ingleby
Illustrator Lily Le
Creative Assistant and Rehearsal Director Anisa Tejpar
Technical Director and Stage Manager Jean-Hugues Rochette
Projections and Video Technician Antoine Caron
Producer Etienne Lavigne, Anymotion Productions
An Anymotion Production, in association with the National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund
Crypto is a co-production of the CanDance Network Creation Fund, Canadian Stage, Danse Danse, the National Arts Centre, the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Crypto received additional support from the Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and the National Ballet of Canada.
Crypto was made possible with the generous support of La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso.
Crypto was made possible with additional support from the Joan and Jerry Lozinski Foundation.