1 + 1 Miniatures
Composed of the solos "Portrait" and "Recul", created in 2026
Length : 15 minutes
Choreography and performance: Lina Cruz
Music: Philippe Noireaut
Props, costumes, set: Lina Cruz
Poems recorded and delivered live by Lina Cruz:
"Portrait" by Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau
"Recul" by Claude Gauvreau
These twentieth century Quebec authors illuminated their artistic landscape, both authors having marked Quebec literature with extremely innovative approaches.
Photo: Cécé
Creating works for Fila 13 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!
1 + 1 Miniatures premiered in Montreal in September 2026 at Festival Quartiers Danses. 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).
1 + 1 Miniatures
1 + 1 Miniatures is part of an ongoing project to develop short works integrating poems, texts and voice performance within a dance composition.
The poems included in these solos can be delivered in French, English or Spanish versions.
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