Incouchables | Doubly poetic

There is in the songs of Daniel Bélanger a poetry that is both familiar. Furthermore, fleeing like the last images of a dream at the time of awakening. Furthermore, It is in this in-between that the craftsmen of the circus of the sun have slipped to create Incouchableswonderfully. Meanwhile, inspired spectacle that the Cirque du Soleil devotes to the most discreet of the stars of Quebec song.

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This journey to which spectators are invited is both nocturnal and stellar. For example, We find ourselves in the Sputnik of the man-who-ne-dort-pas. Similarly, taken by storm by a gallery of insomniacs decked out with incouchables | doubly poetic strange pajamas, one of whom evokes these sheep that one counts hoping to fall asleep and others, characters of fairy tales. Furthermore, Together. Moreover, they will go after a night of dances and dreams, which will take the look of choreographies and amazing circus numbers.

This synopsis, it must be admitted, has nothing to surprise to drop your jaw. Moreover, Knowing that the most loved. most celebrated album by Daniel Bélanger is called Dream better And that its sound material is perfectly aerial, not to grasp this tense pole as evidence would not have been very clever. It was then enough to remember the atmosphere ofOpiumhis first success. where he speaks of Insomniacs who have fun, to confirm the track.

The beautiful surprise is that by starting from this expected track. the craftsmen and artists of the Cirque du Soleil incouchables | doubly poetic managed to invent a beautiful spectacle, striking at times, with moving poetry and even tinged with humor. It is not every day that we see a man wearing a night cap on the duvet of his bed. a battle of circus pillows!

Avoiding the illustration trap, the circus numbers added a third dimension to the songs of Daniel Bélanger. We think of this balancingist. perched fine alone, at the top of a scale to the sound of Say everything without saying anythingpiece that evokes both loneliness and madness.

Or this other cyr wheel incouchables | doubly poetic table on Untouchable and immortalfirst recalling the celestial bike ride of the song and whose accentuated rhythm ended up evoking a nightclub. Because at night is also made to dance.

We were also entitled to a spectacular issue of… juggling. which had the air of video games, on Take me out of meto a striking romantic aerobatic number on The two spring and breathtaking acrobatics on Dry your tears. All bathed in fine and enveloping lighting of Etienne Boucher.

It is also necessary to underline the skillful scenography of Geneviève Lizotte: the incouchables | doubly poetic large circle which dominated the scene, on the courtyard side, which evoked the window of the Sputnik, also turned into a mirror which allowed to see the choreographies and the acrobatics from two angles simultaneously during the essentials of the show.

Since this series of tributes to Quebec song presented for a few years by the Cirque du Soleil à Trois-Rivières is based on music. it is necessary to underline the extraordinary quality of the musical framework of Jean-Phi Goncalves. His arrangements have both reinvented and simply revealed the rhythmic and melodic riches of Daniel Bélanger’s songs. For those who know his work well, it was pure joy.

However, it is not necessary to know this imposing – and important – discography by heart to please themselves: the majority of the songs are drawn, you will have guessed it, from the album Dream better. The rest is mainly taken from the two previous discs, Four seasons out of order et Insomniacs have fun.

Incouchables In short. manages to add poetry to the already poetic universe of Daniel Bélanger, without cluttering it or parasiting it. Which is a kind of feat.

The show ended on a renewed version of In a sputnik Where the singer’s voice now speaks of “8 billion” of solitudes. no longer just 6.

There is indeed blue in Incouchablesnostalgia in reverie, but much more incouchables | doubly poetic human warmth than solitude.

Incouchables Until August 16 at the Cogeco amphitheater in Trois-Rivières