Founded in 1983, Montreal-based LEMIEUX PILON 4D ART is a multidisciplinary company with more than 30 original productions to its credit. Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon, the driving artistic forces of the company, possess an unequalled avant-garde mastery of multimedia techniques as they apply to the performing arts. Their storytelling integrates theater, film, dance, poetry, visual arts, music and sound, resulting in rich immersive performances that both delight and amaze audiences.
Are you curious as to what our next show La Belle et la Bête will look like? Last May, the first rehearsals and projection tests took place. Here are some pictures of the results of these experiments. For the cause, Michel Lemieux himself, played the Beast. Let us know what you think.
Following its run during the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, THE RECORD, Waterloo's newspaper, published a great review of our show NORMAN. Here are some excerpts of what the journalist Joel Rubinnoff wrote:
"[…] what creators Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon have achieved here is nothing short of a new level of (virtual) reality – using one art form (dance) to enhance and edify another (filmmaking)."
"What it is is eye-poppingly original, a three-dimensional head trip that brings McLaren’s playful imagery to life in a way that makes it not only relevant, but fun, vibrant and accessible."
"With its inspired melding of technology and art, it feels like a new kind of theatre, a promise of visions to come and a bravura way to pluck one of Canada’s most talented filmmaker out of near obscurity and give him the showcase he deserves."
The internationally-acclaimed NORMAN, the most recent production by creators Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon, is set to make its première tour of Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick. Since its launch in 2007, NORMAN has been presented at Montreal’s Place des Arts, where it played to full houses for two consecutive runs. It was also featured at the Quebec Scene Festival of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and at the LUMINATO Festival in Toronto. The critically-acclaimed show, which has staged more than 75 performances to date, recently returned from a worldwide tour that included France, England, Austria, the USA, China, Korea, Mexico and Colombia.
The tour will take the show to the following cities:
NORMAN, created by Michel Lemieux, Victor Pilon and Peter Trosztmer, will be featured during Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario from June 10 to June 12, 2010. The show recently returned from an international tour that included three sold-out performances at Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris.
The premiere festival of new Canadian theatre, The Magnetic North Festival moves around the country, treating Canadians to excellence in English theatre.
On April 7th, Théâtre du Nouveau Monde presented its 2010-2011 season. Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon were on hand to talk about their new creation, La Belle et la Bête, co-produced by Lemieux Pilon 4D Art and Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, and starring François Papineau, Andrée Lachapelle and Bénédicte Décary. The show will make its world premiere on January 17, 2011. Following its run at the TNM, the production will tour cities around the province of Quebec.