Created in 2018, Èbe (which signifies the outgoing tide) is the result of an artistic collaboration between Sarah Bronsard and Patrick Saint-Denis (robotic and audio art). An extended version was created in 2021, with a new team of collaborators including Olivier Arseneault as performer and co-creator.
The piece unfolds around a choir of five accordion-robots with choreography anchored in flamenco to explore the communicational dimension of breath. The unconscious adaptation of the breath to the accordions, like the hypnotic effect of the sea, reveals the power of the unknown, situating us somewhere beyond our own personal questioning. It is from this cyclic and vital phenomenon that Èbe came to be.
The poetic anchors that sustain the work are the cyclic movement of waves, the breath, and the remnants on a beach when the waters have retreated. From this metaphor of what remains after the tides, we dig below the surface beyond what is commonly heard from an accordion and flamenco, as we seek to find what connects us in the interstices.
Èbe offers a contemplative and sensorial experience shared through different rhythms that live in us and around us.
Sarah Bronsard has a multi-disciplinary background in visual arts (painting, glass work, electronic arts) infusing with her choreographic practice: lasporee.com
The piece unfolds around a choir of five accordion-robots with choreography anchored in flamenco to explore the communicational dimension of breath. The unconscious adaptation of the breath to the accordions, like the hypnotic effect of the sea, reveals the power of the unknown, situating us somewhere beyond our own personal questioning. It is from this cyclic and vital phenomenon that Èbe came to be.
The poetic anchors that sustain the work are the cyclic movement of waves, the breath, and the remnants on a beach when the waters have retreated. From this metaphor of what remains after the tides, we dig below the surface beyond what is commonly heard from an accordion and flamenco, as we seek to find what connects us in the interstices.
Èbe offers a contemplative and sensorial experience shared through different rhythms that live in us and around us.
Sarah Bronsard has a multi-disciplinary background in visual arts (painting, glass work, electronic arts) infusing with her choreographic practice: lasporee.com
Vancouver International
Flamenco Festival 2024
Compañía Marco Flores
La Música del Flamenco
La Sporee/Sara Bronsard
Flamencolía Dance Company
Lara Wong & Melón Jiménez
Picnic Pavilion
Master Classes
Flamenco Festival 2024
Compañía Marco Flores
La Música del Flamenco
La Sporee/Sara Bronsard
Flamencolía Dance Company
Lara Wong & Melón Jiménez
Picnic Pavilion
Master Classes
We strive to reflect flamenco’s universal message of humanistic tolerance: about the festival
We are honoured and grateful to be able to operate on the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaɬ and xʷməθkwəy̓əm Nations.
We are honoured and grateful to be able to operate on the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaɬ and xʷməθkwəy̓əm Nations.
We strive to reflect flamenco’s universal message of humanistic tolerance: about the festival
We are honoured and grateful to be able to operate on the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaɬ and xʷməθkwəy̓əm Nations.