RAYURES URBAINES
Montréal ‘Carnavale’ Gaultier
“My motivation was, and still is, desire.” JPG
As part of the retrospective La planète mode de Jean-Paul Gaultier at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1,600 citizens will be dancing in tribute to the French couturier on Saturday July 16 and Sunday July 17, with two shows he will be attending: the Pinkarnaval ready-to-wear show and the Pinkarnaval show.
Montreal, city of creation, creates a grand parade with guest artists, the public and a designer. This gesture establishes a tradition of shared creation between the POPulation and the ARTists.
Pinkarnival consists of 8 tableaux created by 8 guest artists, 8 supporting artists and 8 arrondissements, towns or cultural groups and their hundreds of participating citizens, including Lyon. Spectators will be able to admire these troupes of amateur dancers in “Gaultier-style” costumes, each representing a painting linked to Jean Paul Gaultier.
As a tribute to Lyon’s Dance Biennial, which inspired this fashion show, Barbara Tota of ONLYLYON led an operation to recruit 200 “seasoned” dancers from Lyon for free dance workshops (twice a week from June 20 to July 16).
At the head of the procession, they will parade in the Grand ballet des soyeux, directed by Lyonnais choreographers Margot Carrière and Jean-Philippe Giraud and dressed, thanks to the donation of 60 meters of silk, to make their costumes.
This will be followed by Hip-hop de l’enfant terrible, a tableau from Vaudreuil-Dorion choreographed by Roxanne Duchesne-Roy, featuring dozens of children wearing Gaultier stripes. Francisco Randez, the “Male” of Gaultier fragrances, will take part in this tableau.
Then Jean-Paul Gaultier’s Rave Paris will be presented by Clara Furey and Karen Fennel. With a large walking Eiffel Tower.
Ville-Marie’s Tango de la différence (choreography by Noël Strazza) precedes the multi-ethnic dancers in Les cultures dansent en ligne, directed by Marie Béland. Then Mélissandre Tremblay-Bourassa will coordinate the dancers’ Gigue urbaine. La danse du désir by Jean-Paul Gaultier, an idea by the couturier directed by Dominique Porte.
All costumes have been prepared by Daniel Fortin and his team of a dozen seamstresses for hundreds of costumes created. The women will wear a white cloth dress with gold piping, lace gloves with gold sequins, and a medieval headdress supported by a veil forming a sort of canopy over the head. The men are also dressed all in white, with shoes, stockings, pantacourt, vest, shirt and scarf. The cufflinks are made of gold string, and the guys also wear a Renaissance-style headdress, with gray pearls and gold clips.
On Sunday, at 9pm, the fashion show will metamorphose into a grand urban spectacle directed by Luc Petit, choreographer with Franco Dragone. The show continues at 10pm with a dance party hosted by former Jean-Paul Gaultier model DJ Ève Salvail, and her ex-“Mâle” Francisco Randez.
Shows by POPulation. For the POPulation. D’ARTistes. De la Rue aux Étoiles…
Alessandro | @thecaprissimo
Pink Giant Bra by Gaultier | Quartier des Spectacle | Montreal
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