Fortunately, the rain had no impact on this improvisation game planned for Sunday by the Virée, since the exercise was conducted at the Espace culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme at noon. Actors, actresses, musicians and musicians put all their skills to the service of improvisation on a series of themes whose purpose is to captivate, make people laugh or even move them. Martin Racine was the referee and host of this improvisation game pitting two teams of actors (Emmanuelle Fadin, Julien Normand, Marie-Lune Falardeau-Drolet, William Bernaquez) against each other whose theatrical improvisations are this time accompanied by music imagined in real time. André Moisan on clarinets, Hélène Lemay on trombone and percussion, Jimmy Lahaie on guitars and electronics. In complete coherence and cohesion with the imposed themes (the seasons, The Sleeping Beauty, etc.), this power trio will have suggested several improvisations often inspired by well-known tunes, from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee to Van Morrison’s Moon Dance, including Joseph Kosma’s Dead Leaves, JS Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier and others such as When the Saints Go Marching In. We were not exactly in the strict classical corpus of the OSM, you understand!
photo: Gabriel Fournier
