Sur tes traces
Gurshad Shaheman & Dany Boudreault
- Creation
- Theater
"Sur tes traces" is a twin portrait of two artists, Gurshad Shaheman and Dany Boudreault. With this cross between a travel diary and a identify study, the performance grants an uncensored insight into their intimate world and presents a story set across three continents.
Dany Boudreault was born on the shores of Lake Saint-Jean in Quebec, a rural environment; Gurshad Shaheman is a native of the Islamic Republic of Iran, where he spent the first twelve years of his life. Starting with a list of the people – family, first loves, friends, even enemies – and the places marking the fights and frolics of their youth, Boudreault and Shaheman each took on the task of working back up-stream through the river of the other’s life, creating a new portrait of it. Following the two writer-performers who themselves often had to make tough choices among the multiple narratives, the audience experiences the narration through multi-channel headphones, allowing them to select the accounts they wish to follow. Together, Boudreault and Shaheman offer the keys to their personal archives, through a writing style that combines a travel journal and a character investigation. In speaking of the other, one inevitably speaks about oneself, but also and above all about others. Spanning the oceans, the personal and political accounts interlink, finding an echo in each one of us.
Co-presented with Kunstenfestivaldesarts.
FRANCE-CANADA-BELGIUM
In French.
Surtitles in English on 13 and 18 May. Dutch surtitles on 14 and 17 May 2024.
From 16 years old.
Text, direction and performance Gurshad Shaheman & Dany Boudreault
Assistant director Renaud Soublière
Sound design Lucien Gaudion
Set design Mathieu Lorry-Dupuy
Lighting design Julie Basse assisted by Joëlle Leblanc
Dramaturgy Youness Anzane, Maxime Carbonneau
Stage management Pierre-Éric Vives
Costumes Bastien Poncelet
Administration Emma Garzaro
Production manager Julie Kretzschmar
Québec production Jérémie Boucher
Dany Boudreault’s guide/interpreter in Turkey Saeed Mirzaei
Transcription Khadija Fadhel
A project by La messe basse and La ligne d’ombre, in coproduction with Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Festival TransAmériques (Montréal), Maison de la Culture – Scène nationale d’Amiens, Le Manège – Scène nationale de Maubeuge, Quai – CDN Angers Pays de la Loire, CCAM – Scène nationale de Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, Théâtre de la Bastille (Paris), Festival d’Automne à Paris, Théâtre Prospero (Montréal) | A delegated production of Les Rencontres à l’échelle – B/P | With the support of DRAC Hauts-de-France, CALQ, CAC, Fondation Cole, CAM | Special thanks to Le Phénix – Scène nationale de Valenciennes and Théâtre de L’Union – CDN de Limoges | Gurshad Shaheman is associated artiste at Théâtre Les Tanneurs | Performances in Brussels with the support of the Québec Government Office in Brussels & the French Embassy in Belgium and the Institut français Paris as part of EXTRA, a program that supports French contemporary creation in Belgium.
© André Boudreault
