Elusive Witnesses by Béatrice Larrivée

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Elusive Witnesses is a movement-based performance that exposes the chaos rooted in the body’s lived experience of being shaped, perceived, and constrained. With vulnerability and fragility, the piece delves into the tension between intimacy, identity, and desire, revealing the body as a vessel of layered histories and its entanglement with patriarchal structures. Through physical exploration, Elusive Witnesses confronts the imprints left by these experiences and the disorder they generate, not to dwell in rupture, but to uncover the transformative potential of chaos. In doing so, the work invites the audience to reconsider chaos not only as disruption, but as a force for renewal, resistance, and embodied becoming.

Béatrice Larrivée is a Canadian performance artist and creator. She danced with the Batsheva Ensemble between 2018 and 2020 before becoming a Gaga teacher, a movement language developed by Ohad Naharin. Béatrice is now an independent artist and works with a variety of choreographers around the world. Over the past few years, she has created six original works and directed the movement for a theatrical piece led by Nadia Migdal. Among these, in 2023 she was selected to create a work for six graduates of l’École de danse contemporaine de Montréal. Her solo Briefly earned her the 1st prize in choreography and the 2nd prize in performance at the International Dance Solo Festival in Stuttgart, Germany. Most recently, Béatrice has been commissioned to create new works for FLYOUT Transition Company in Rome and Edmonton Ballet. Béatrice began her career in Montréal with the RUBBERBAND company. During this time, she also did freelance work with Compagnie Marie Chouinard. She studied ballet at l’École supérieure de ballet du Québec before moving to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she attended the renowned Arts Umbrella.