V!TAL
The urgency of being alive, fully, right now: to bring life to the stage, in all its power and fragility.
All audiences
60 minutes
6 dancers
2 musicians
2026
On stage, six dancers and two musicians are gripped by a single pulse that never lets them go. Their breath grows shallow, their muscles burn, and the rhythm never lets up. The music seeps under their skin, awakens their flesh, and propels their bodies. On the brink of exhaustion, the movement tips into a trance, allowing sensuality, tenderness, and a visceral need for the other—right there, close by—to surface. Connecting becomes a frantic necessity, as if the touch of another could hold back time and provide, in that instant, the searing proof of being alive.
V!TAL is rooted in a deep conviction: when time is running out, every gesture, every breath, every touch takes on inestimable value. The body becomes a passage. The stage, a ritual. A searing vitality then emerges from the collective, for it is through contact with the group that the individual reveals themselves, without ever fading into the background.
Credits
Choreographer
Ismael Mouaraki
Artistic assistant
Annie Gagnon
Performers
Yassine Khyar, Etienne Léonard-Benoit, Laura Perron, Marie-Maxime Ross, Zack Van Gils, Erismel Mejias
Live Musicians
Olivier Cousineau, Olivier Landry-Gagnon
Scenography and costumes
Marilene Bastien
Sound Designer
Olivier Landry-Gagnon
Lighting Designer and Technical Director
Tiffanie Boffa
Coproduction
Agora de la danse
Diffusion
Maison Verso
