Dans son salon was officially created in early 2013 and then became a company in 2016. Its official members are Marijoe Foucher, Karenne Gravel, Emmalie Ruest and Liane Thériault.
Emmalie and Karenne met in their dance studies at Université du Québec à Montreal, three years prior to the official creation of the collective. Soon after their graduation, the duet chose to work together in the creation of a dance pieces in which they would perform as themselves. They found a collaborative practice fed by their common artistic interests developed over their studies. In August 2013, new members joined the collective and started working on screendance projects.
Artistic statement
Dans Son Salon fosters artistic collaboration throughout playful choreographic projects. While the collective creates works for stage as well as for unconventional spaces, it also looks forward into developing its own language through screendance.
Since its very first creations, Dans Son Salon creates dance where self-mockery becomes a criticizing tool of social conventions. Its artistic research focuses on the nonsense present in our daily lives that is sometimes sly and even harmful. Through its projects, Dans Son Salon presents a humoristic vision of dance unafraid of ridiculousness and expresses it through choreography, movement qualities and stage direction. Comic emanates from character work inspired by theater techniques, the art of clowning, the notion of persona in the performance field, as well as the creator’s personalities themselves. Dans Son Salon’s characters are amplified by the very differences between each other, harvesting the hope to highligh richness within complementarity. It is because the clown’s character can only exist through the public’s eye that his exceptional feats keep the audience’s attention. Dans Son Salon uses its technique to attract the public’s eye.
Dans Son Salon’s choreography is marked by a voluntary naivety that is not totally in line with reality, in order to make place for something larger than life like poetry or dreams. Moreover, the collective’s work is inspired by exotism and kitsch elements – artefacts that automatically attract the eye, imagination and sensations. The collective is fascinated by kitsch in an anthropological and artistic way. In this sense, Dans Son Salon questions and analyses its own aesthetic tendencies to understand its deep seated desires and instincts.