Les Muses au Musée: Description — Productions SuperMusique

Featuring

Karen Young, voice
Marie Chouinard, voice
Pauline Vaillancourt, voice
Pauline Julien, voice
Geneviève Letarte, voice
Lou Babin, voice
Natalie Choquette, voice
Maggie Nicols, voice
Catherine Jauniaux, voice
Joëlle Léandre, double bass

Performing Dates

Date	Venue
Saturday June 6, 1992	Salle Beverley Webster Rolph — Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Sunday June 7, 1992	Salle Beverley Webster Rolph — Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

About this event

Produced in collaboration with the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

A work in nine tableaux: Les Muses au Musée is a voice-centered event: the voice that speaks, tells, narrates; the voice that sings, vocalizes, chants; the voice that sweats, gasps, shakes.

To highlight this multi-faceted voice, each tableau featured a soloist in a totally stripped-down setting. And each tableau has been designed according to one of the Muses: The Muse of Music has been attributed to Karen Young, Dance to Marie Chouinard, Astronomy to Pauline Vaillancourt, History to Pauline Julien, Eloquence to Geneviève Letarte, Eroticism to Lou Babin, Pantomime to Natalie Choquette, Comedy to Maggie Nicols, and Tragedy to Catherine Jauniaux.

There is no musical accompaniment, not the smallest percussion instrument heard during the tableaux, but French bassist Joëlle Léandre is improvising bridges between tableaux.