Digging
Length : 23 minutes
Choreography and performance: Lina Cruz
Music: Philippe Noireaut
Props, costumes: Lina Cruz
Photo: Steven Berruyer
This solo premiered in June 2026 at Here&Now Festival, an event produced by Aeris Körper in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Part of the research period for the creation of this solo benefited of a residency at Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce--Monkland (Montreal).
Digging
What is it all about?
Life, death, youth, aging, love, joy, loss and the absurdity, irony, tenderness and humour with which to stroll along the path.
And if you have a cauliflower to sing along with you,
of course it’s even better!
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Being at the head of Fila 13 and creating works for the company had progressively distanced Lina from her own performance and given her the precious platform to create for dancers other than herself. However, the present opportunities to rediscover the pleasures and challenges of the stage are a gift she welcomes wholeheartedly!
About Fila 13's previous works -
Tic-Tac Party - "Lina Cruz's dance vocabulary is decidedly audacious and offers unique findings, as amidst a madness in which her surreal imagination is playfully complicit (...)
Guylaine Massoutre
Revue de Théâtre JEU, March 2017 -
Morphs
- "(...) this work by Lina Cruz, Morphs
- "(...) The unconscious, joyfully unveiled, is carried with versatile sensibility. It is an insatiable spotlight focused on the most colorful and vigorous of imaginations."
imprinted with as much sensuality as humour, as much physical prowess as audacity, is a true gift for the senses. (...)."
Yanik Comeau
Zone Culture, November 17 2021
Guylaine Massoutre
Spirale Magazine, October 2021