Maxime Daigneault & Véronique Girard Team Up with Fifth Grade Artists for ‘L’ombre ailée et la licorne des mers (bulbe d’infini)’
By David Salazar(Photo Credit: Clémence Lesné)
Artists Maxime Daigneault and Véronique Girard are teaming up with Barclay Elementary School in Montréal, Canada to present “L’ombre ailée et la licorne des mers (bulbe d’infini).”
The project allows students to be the true creators of opera. The process will take place over the course of several weeks with students engaging in numerous workshops exploring music and stage creation. The first iteration of the project took place in 2023 and was titled “Paréidolie.” Across 12 weeks, Girard, a visual sound and vocal artist, and Daigneault, a composer, vocal and movement artist, and educator, worked with fifth-graders on numerous workshops in which they explored movement, sound, invented language, and musical improvisation. A year later, they worked on “Fioles de rêves.”
“Through these projects, our goal is to create a space where children can explore, experiment and transform together, using voice, body and sound as tools of expression. Opera thus becomes a playground, a laboratory of ideas, where creativity explores the invisible and gives life to the imagination, while nurturing self-confidence and collective awareness,” Véronique Girard and Maxime Daigneault stated per an official press release.
“L’ombre ailée et la licorne des mers (bulbe d’infini)” takes a choral piece by Daigneault as its inspiration and follows narwhals and “their lesser false vampire partners” through a journey of memories of their mothers, who are trapped in a bubble and not able to fulfill their life cycle.
The process culminates in a public performance on May 28 at the Patro Villeray.
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