Alan Lake Factorie

Alan Lake Factorie presents Le Cris des Méduses

By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer Le Cris des Méduses is a 19th century romantic painting come to life through choreography and art direction by Alan Lake Factori(e). An interpretation of French romantic painter Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa (1819), the haunting performance featured nine dancers whose bodies are used as independent vessels intertwining and coming together to create a single unit. The painting depicts a shipwreck and a cluster of bodies struggling to survive adrift. The interpretation, performed at the Vancouver Playhouse on January 27 and 28, highlights the interconnected components of life and death. The theatre was…

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