Reinventing the Performing

Art

SOLIDESALAD

PLACE DES ARTSMONTREAL2004

For the past 30 years, Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon have been transforming the performing art landscape. Their internationally acclaimed productions stand apart from the current multidisciplinary trend, having anticipated it by many years.

Michel Lemieux’s very first performances in 1983 set the tone: unique, original, innovative. His encounter some years later with the visual artist Victor Pilon propelled the pair into unexplored creative territory, fuelling the international notoriety of Lemieux Pilon 4D Art.

Above and beyond the simple juxtaposition of artistic disciplines, Lemieux and Pilon have mastered the perfect integration of theatre, film, dance, visual arts, music and sound in unparalleled stage productions. As a team or individually with key collaborators, they produce award-winning works combining intelligence and poetry, universal appeal and an avant-garde aesthetic.

Recently named Officers of the Order of Canada, Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon have been recognized among the ranks of those artists establishing Quebec’s creative reputation around the world. They are also engaged in a number of collaborations, including projects with Cirque du Soleil and the Montreal International Jazz Festival.

Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon: The Art of Reinvention.

3o years of

creation

LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE

ON TOuR 2012

To mark their 30 years of creative collaboration, Lemieux and Pilon are inviting the public into their world. Fans and neophytes will discover the team’s creative process, from the first spark to the realization of an artistic project, through a multilayered yet unpretentious multidisciplinary exhibition that replicates the sensory experience of their works. Three cornerstones of culture will host this encounter with the world of Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon.

A three-part retrospective of three remarkable decades at Place des Arts, Théâtre du Nouveau Monde and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

LEMIEux ET PILONAT wORk

CeLeBRating

3o years

at Place des arts

at Théâtre du Nouveau Monde

and at the montreal museum of fine arts

MAQuETTE OF FIVE TIMES

THE MONTREAL MuSEuM OF FINE ARTS 2014

From April to mid-June 2014, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will offer an unprecedented museum experience: the art of Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon. As the first foray into a brave new world, this immersive exhibition will reinvent the retrospective.

After exploring their artistic work in a more traditional fashion in the first gallery, visitors will be fully immersed in Lemieux and Pilon’s work. They will become actors in an impressionist yet anachronistic re-creation of various productions from the last 30 years. In this vast space filled with giant, constantly metamorphosing projections on the Museum walls and on a series of semi-transparent screens —accompanied by sound clips— visitors will (re)discover the characters, images and scenes from shows such as La Belle et la Bête, the Tempest, Grand Hôtel des Étrangers, Delirium and Orféo.

An immersive, interactive and unprecedented foray into the sensory world of Lemieux and Pilon.

3o years ofsharing

THE BIRTH OF A WORKAT PLACE DES ARTS

In counterpoint to the immersive experience at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in April and May 2014, the Place des Arts will be delving into the singular spirit of the Lemieux-Pilon team. This retrospective exhibition, which will be held in the Espace culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme, will retrace the genesis of their works.

Lemieux Pilon 4D Art’s productions result from a lengthy creative process that intersects with and generates new artistic avenues. Intuitive and impulsive, their performing art practice is constantly developing and evolving. Sketches, plans, maquettes, photographs, videos and objects pulled from the archives of the last 30 years will introduce visitors to the original elements of these extraordinary creations.

A tour of the Lemieux-Pilon workshop.

As part of the events surrounding the 30th anniversary of Lemieux and Pilon’s creative collaboration, the Place des Arts is presenting 13 new performances of Norman at the Cinquième sale in April 2014.

Originally produced at the Place des Arts in 2007, Norman has become a classic of the Lemieux-Pilon repertoire, as well as of the performing arts in general. The show, which combines performance and documentary, pays tribute to the great Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren. The incredible success of this work was topped off with a world tour.

An evening of magic created by Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon.

Presentinga CLASSIC

In January 2014, at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Lemieux and Pilon will premiere a brand-new production: Icarus.

Created with playwright Olivier kemeid, Icarus stars Robert Lalonde, Renaud Lacelle Bourdon and Noëlla Huet. This production explores questions both contemporary and timeless about unchecked ambition in individuals, companies and society in general. Is happiness possible in our sped-up era, with its relentless growth and progress at any cost?

Inspired by the myth of Daedalus, a son challenges his father at the end of his life about his career, his personal choices, his ambitions.

He forces his father to revisit the turning points of his life, to dig into his labyrinthine memory, to recall deeply buried moments and to confront his inner shadow, his own Minotaur.

ICARuS, a fresh look at the father-son relationship, according to Lemieux Pilon.

and aBRAND-NEWPrODUCTION!

IN ADDITION TO THE 30th ANNIVERSARY EVENTS

La Belle et la Bête's World TourLa Belle et la Bête continues its remarkable run after 44 sold-out performances in Montreal in 2011, and appearances at Toronto’s Luminato Festival last summer and Boston’s ArtsEmerson in fall 2012, the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris and a tour of France.

The show will make its New York debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) after a tour of Asia (South korea and Taiwan).

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© Espace pour la vie (Daniel Choinière)

La Belle et la bête 2011English Tour, 2012 in collaboration with the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde (TNM), Espace Jean Legendre de Compiègne – Scène nationale de l’Oise (France), Luminato (Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity)

Starmania: The Opera 2008direction and set design, Opéra de Montréal and Opéra de Québec

Norman tribute to Norman McLaren2007–presentco-produced with Montreal’s Place des Arts, Quebec Scene at the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Luminato and Espace Jean Legendre de Compiègne – Scène nationale de l’Oise

La Tempête 2005-2010in collaboration with the TNM, Espace Jean Legendre de Compiègne – Scène nationale de l’Oise

Délirium 2006-2008for Cirque du Soleil

Midnight Sun 2004to mark Cirque du Soleil’s 20th anniversary and the Montreal International Jazz Festival’s 25th anniversary.

Anima 2002-2004

Orféo 1998-2001co-produced with the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), the John F. kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (washington, D.C.) and Montreal’s usine C.

Pôles 1996-2000 co-produced with Pierre-Paul Savoie Danse, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Softimage, the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art and the CanDanse Network.

Grand Hôtel des Étrangers 1994-1998 co-produced with the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art and the Groupe Fortune 1000.

Free Fall – Voix de passage 1990-1992

Mutations 1988-1990

Solide Salad 1984-1986

L’Oeil rechargeable 1983

Le Tympan de la cantatrice 1982

Shows and events

Continuum2013Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium, immersive show

Les Planètes 2003 televised production for Amérimage Spectra, broadcast by the CBC and Radio-Canada

Ceci est une sphère / This is a Sphere 2000multimedia presentation, Montreal High Lights Festival

Océan d’espoir 2000 Pier 1, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Time Travel1997Cité de l’Énergie, Shawinigan

Reach for the Stars 1995 Cosmodôme, Laval

Act of Faith 1993 Quebec’s Notre Dame Basilica

Nocturnal Parade for Montreal’s 350th Anniversary 1992

2013 Order of Canada Officers: Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon

2012 Gascon-Roux Award: best direction, set and lighting, La Belle et la Bête

2010 Journal de Montréal’s best 10 shows of the first decade of the millennium, Delirium and Starmania: The Opera

2008 The Argus newspaper’s Angel Awards for artistic excellence (Britain), Norman

Nomination for the Conseil des arts de Montréal’s Grand Prize, The Tempest

2006Gascon-Roux Award for best direction, lighting and music, The Tempest

2005 Masque, special contribution of the multimedia concept behind The Tempest, Académie québécoise du theatre

Technical award for The Tempest, Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology

2004Félix Award nomination for best soundtrack, Anima

2000Masque nomination, special contribution of the virtual and stage projections in Orféo, Académie québécoise du theatre

winner of the competition to integrate arts with architecture and the environment Montreal’s new conference centre

1998Grafika Award, www.4dart.com website design

1992Félix Award, direction for Michel Rivard’s show Naïf

1990Félix Award nomination, best direction for Voix de passage

1985winner of (4) Félix Awards for the show Solide Salad in the following categories: show of the year, lighting design, stage manager of the year and director of the year; and nominations in three other categories

Museum exhibitionsand shows

Awards andnominations

upon the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon’s

creative collaboration, we offer you a unique

opportunity to support the duo by becoming a

partner and contributing to the 30th anniversary

activities in 2014.

ContactMarie-Christine Dufour

Executive Director

Lemieux Pilon 4D Artmcdufour@4dart.com

P 514.284.5005

We can do [even] more… together!

STARMANIA: THE OPERA

OPÉRA DE MONTRÉAL AND OPÉRA DE QuÉBEC 2008-2009

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