INTERVIEWS AND TEXTS
The Regards Hybrides Collection is based on a high-quality experience that offers a deep dive into the creative world of screendance. To accompany the viewing of works, the Collection offers exclusive complementary content: access the artists’ point of view with our short video interviews or go behind the scenes of creation with our in-depth audio interviews! Our series of unpublished texts also offers personal, analytical, or historical perspectives on certain works.

« Dance is such an ephemeral art form that it is essential to keep the great works of Canadian choreographers alive through projects like the Regards Hybrides Collection. For a choreographer, cinema is a unique way to bring the public’s eye to a specific point in the action and to reveal the dance in all its humanity. »
— Ginette Laurin, choreographer

INNOVATION AND THE HIGHLIGHTING OF A HERITAGE
The Collection takes on the challenge of examining certain issues related to digital development in dance, as well as the often perilous task of archiving choreographic works, at a time when many of the great Canadian names in the dance world are reaching the peak of their careers. The Collection therefore focuses on a mix of works, with a special emphasis on certain key works that are not well known to younger generations, as well as recent works that address the current issues posed by the interaction between dance and new technologies.

DUTY OF MEMORY AND SENSITIVE TRIBUTES
A duty to remember is manifested in the form of tributes to strong figures in the arts who have left, in various ways, a great void around them at the time of their death. This is particularly true of Ken Roy, Angel Gates, and Tedd Robinson, whose on-screen performances provide a vivid reminder of their contributions. The three works that highlight them in the Collection are accompanied by custom-commissioned texts by Katya Montaignac, Wayne Wapeemukwa, and Marie Claire Forté, who have placed their thinking at the intersection of these artists’. It is notably in this spirit of intergenerational and multidisciplinary networking that the Collection stands out from the existing offer.

AN AVANT-GARDE PROJECT ON AN INTERNATIONAL SCALE
A unique platform, the Collection is much more than a simple online catalog: while it promotes discovery, it also acts as a means of wider cultural transmission by nourishing the curiosity and sensitivity of a variety of audiences with content that reflects well-founded and generous research. The Collection is an unprecedented resource for promoting past and present screendance practices. Spearheaded by the Regards Hybrides Collection team, a leading figure in the development of screendance internationally since 2012, the Collection puts forward an ethical approach to the distribution of screendance in the digital age, which is obviously innovative, but also feminist and decolonial.

This project is produced with the financial support of the Government of Quebec and the Canada Council for the Arts. We also thank our production partners Filigrane Archives and Mouvement Perpétuel, as well as our sponsors Danse Danse, FTA – Festival Transamériques, PPS Danse and Tangente Danse.

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