{"id":153941,"date":"2026-03-07T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/interviews-panm360\/semaine-du-neuf-quasar-saxophones-danse-dance-monterrey-escola-montreal-concert\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:53:09","slug":"semaine-du-neuf-quasar-saxophones-danse-dance-monterrey-escola-montreal-concert","status":"publish","type":"interviews","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/interviews-panm360\/semaine-du-neuf-quasar-saxophones-danse-dance-monterrey-escola-montreal-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Semaine du Neuf 2026 | Quasar, saxophone quartet, on equal footing with dance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There will be something new on Wednesday, March 11 at the Espace Orange<\/strong><\/a> du Wilder in Montreal: the Quasar saxophone quartet will present five new artistic creations during the La Semaine du Neuf festival, organised by Le Vivier. Creations resulting from as many composer-dancer pairs. A marriage between music and movement, as is the theme of the 2026 edition of the festival. A union, however, that is likely to offer something quite different from a usual choreographic performance. Indeed, the question at the heart of the creative process is this: Is there an implicit hierarchy between dance and music, where one is subordinated to the other? One can guess that the presence of the four Quasar saxophonists on stage will have a significant impact on the outcome and the music-kinetic dynamics. The five new works are the result of residencies carried out by Quasar and the artists present at the National School of Music and Dance of Monterrey in Mexico. I talked about all this with Marie-Chantal Leclair from Quasar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PanM360: Hello Marie-Chantal. What is the idea behind this show?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie-Chantal Leclair <\/strong>:<\/strong> It is a creation project that places musical composition and dance on an equal footing. There are about twenty people in the project: six dancers from the Escola in Monterrey, the four saxophonists from Quasar, and five composers and five choreographers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PanM360: Have you wanted to do this with this Mexican institution for a long time?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie-Chantal Leclair <\/strong>: <\/strong>This is our third collaboration with the Escola. At the beginning, it was only about working on the music aspect, in a very usual way. Then, recently, Alejandro Padilla from Escola proposed that we be part of this co-creation project with both disciplines. And we said yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PanM360: Is there a common thread among all the creations?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie-Chantal Leclair <\/strong>: <\/strong>Good question. Each piece lasts about ten minutes. Each composition\/choreography pair operated independently. But we commissioned musical interludes between the numbers from the Quebec composer Chantal Laplante. So, in the end, it is a show that lasts about an hour and unfolds continuously, without interruption. The whole is a coherent artistic gesture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PanM360: That isn\u2019t the first time you’re doing interdisciplinary work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie-Chantal Leclair <\/strong>: <\/strong>We collaborated with Carr\u00e9 des Lombes and Daniel Desnoyers last summer. We did a project at Domaine Forget, with a dance troupe, for the commemoration of Fran\u00e7ois Sullivan’s 100th anniversary. And other interdisciplinary projects. We already presented a show in Montreal with the Escola in 2023. It was a more classical collaboration where we played the music to choreographies. But this is our first collaboration of this participatory and integrated scale with dance. It was a very free encounter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Une publication partag\u00e9e par Le Vivier (@groupelevivier)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n