Blending music, experimental theatre, and movement, this poetic performance imagines a future in a world in decline.
A transformed life and climate. Yvern, a new work by transdisciplinary creator Gabo Champagne, is an imaginative exploration of winter—past, present, and envisioned at its end. This performance weaves together music, experimental theatre, and movement to tell a story that is both intimate and urgent. Gabo Champagne maps the shifting emotional landscape of a threatened season. The work imagines a future in a declining world, where memory and nostalgia take center stage. Poetic, playful, and elegiac, Yvern reflects on how winter has shaped Quebec identity, and on the consequences of its disappearance. Yvern is both a requiem for the climate we once knew and a call to face what lies ahead.
ARTISTS
Gabo Champagne (performance, composition, co-mise en scène)
Jenn Mong (piano)
Yang Chen (percussions)
An Laurence Higgins (guitare)
Thomas Gauthier-Lang (saxophone)
Émilie Fortin (trompette)
Audréanne Filion (violoncelle)
JJ Houle (conseillère à la mise en scène)
Darah Miah (conception lumières)
OPENING ACT: TREFFPUNKT SAXOPHONE QUARTET
This program brings together four works for saxophone quartet, including a new creation by saxophonist Antonin Bourgault. Each piece, in its own way, explores forms of transformation, tension, or circularity. Particular attention is given to movements—physical, mental, or symbolic—and to the ways these gestures are inscribed in sound. Rather than following a linear trajectory, these works unfold through cycles, shifts, ruptures, or ornamental gestures that continuously redefine the relationship to time and listening.
ARTISTS
Guy Lavoie (saxophone soprano)
Thomas Gauthier-Lang (saxophone alto)
Antonin Bourgault (saxophone tenor)
Edmond Forest (saxophone baryton)
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Presented in collaboration with Arts in the Margins and Groupe Le Vivier as part of Festival Flux and Québec Musiques Parallèles.
This project has been made possible by the generous support of the Museond Fund for Creativity.
We would like to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, and the SOCAN Foundation for their support.