Tentacle Tribe: PRISM
Sunday, April 11th @ 7PM | Donna M. Morris Theater
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“A colorful, kaleidoscopic masterpiece!” – Gen’s Delight, Mountain Lake PBS
“Enhancing the experience, the stage gleams with five towering aluminum mirrors that pivot and sway… at times, the reflections from these mirrors multiply the performers so completely that the audience feels they are watching twenty-five bodies in motion, rather than five.” – Red Bus Londinium Life
With talent to spare and an abundance of imagination, Emmanuelle Lê Phan and Elon Höglund deploy their tentacles in luminous spheres. They deepen their exploration of perception, illusion and the invisible, searching for what we cannot really grasp, what is hidden from words and the gaze.
A quintet of dancers move between a reflective floor and movable mirror panels that they can manipulate from different angles. Kaleidoscopically multiplied tenfold, their bodies seamlessly unite and intermingle, in synergy with Höglund’s music. Prism opens up a myriad of possibilities, distorting perspectives and deconstructing movement into infinite combinations of colourful images. A dreamlike journey with a truly hypnotic effect.
One of the company’s most ambitious creations, PRISM was co-produced by Danse Danse and Diagramme, and was nominated for the Sadler’s Wells Rose Prize in 2023. The work premiered in March 2023 and has since toured in Quebec, British Columbia, the United Kingdom, Austria and the United States.
PRISM originated from a scenographic concept: two mirrored walls and a reflective floor forming a corner of reflections. Within this space, a single dancer can be multiplied into as many as seven reflections. The set was designed with adjustable walls, allowing the angle to shift between acute and obtuse configurations, transforming both the visual landscape and the performers’ interactions within it.
For Tentacle Tribe, integrating a dynamic set design into the creative process presented a new challenge. We approached it gradually, exploring how the reflective architecture could become an integral part of the company’s artistic language rather than a simple visual effect. Our work investigates the symbiosis between bodies, merging individual performers into a single evolving organism. Drawing from hip-hop forms and illusion-based movement, we deconstruct familiar vocabularies to create abstraction and a distinctive organic-mechanical aesthetic. In PRISM, these principles are amplified through reflection and repetition, generating a mesmerizing kaleidoscopic world where bodies, images, and perspectives continuously multiply and transform.
ABOUT TENTACLE TRIBE
Born from a Canadian-Swedish collaboration between choreographers and performers Emmanuelle Lê Phan and Elon Höglund, Tentacle Tribe combines their experience and creativity to transcend the boundaries between street dance and contemporary dance, creating a unique signature. Drawing from Hip Hop concepts, their movement style taps into the essence of Breaking and Popping, as well as the physicality of the animal kingdom, with a strong focus on partner work. Whether as a duo or in a group, they create a symbiosis of bodies and optical illusions that captivate the audience and elicit their engagement. Always in search of innovation, the duo uses technology and interdisciplinarity to enhance their dance.
Experienced performers deeply rooted in the street dance community, Lê Phan and Höglund are also committed to advancing and expanding their community, as well as making their creations accessible to the widest audience possible. In addition to producing works in various formats to showcase their discipline in diverse contexts such as theaters, cinemas, public spaces, and online, they mentor the next generation within their company by leading workshops and working on commissioned pieces in the fields of dance and circus.
Founded in 2012, the company boasts 9 stage creations, including “THREESIXNINE”, winner of the Prix de la Danse, “GHOST” and “PRISM”, 6 films, and significant national and international recognition. Tentacle Tribe aims to expand its efforts for the development of street dance through the establishment of the Coro Casse street dance festival in Quebec City.
Our mission is to make art accessible to everyone. Financial assistance is available for this event through our #fieldhallforall program. Patrons can request a discount of up to 100%. Click here to apply for financial assistance.
