BIOGRAPHIE
PETRIKOR DANSE
Artistic Director - Bettina Szabo
HABITAT
Transformation | Emigration | Growth
Solo || 50 minutes
Habitat is a multidisciplinary solo inspired by the life cycle of hermit crabs, serving as a metaphor for the artist's emigration journey from Uruguay to Canada. Hermit crabs don’t have a shell; instead, they house themselves in objects according to their size. As they grow, their object becomes limiting and uncomfortable, so they look for a new one.
This multidisciplinary piece combines movement, sound, a paper sculpture named Hermes (made of 600 articulated paper cones) and lighting. All elements are controlled in real time by the performer, which serves as her shell, her habitat. The lighting and sculpture create beautiful visual effects reminiscent of aurora borealis. All these elements make of Habitat a hypnotic poetic experience with an aquatic eerie atmosphere.
Creative Team
Choreography and performance: Bettina Szabo
Sculpture: Jacinthe Derasp
Music composer: Ana Dall'Ara Majek, Joel Lavoie
Dramaturge: Morena Prats
Wearable electronics: Alexandra Bachmayer
Costume: Anomal Couture
Rehearsal Director: Laurie-Anne Langis, Annie Gagnon, Philippe Poirier
Lighting design: Paul Chambers
Spatialization: Thibaut Carpentier
Technial Director: Audrée J. Lewka
Management: Aaron Fernandes




Press quotes
Spatialized music bursts from everywhere, runs through our spine. This short, accomplished creation is a work of proximity. — Nayla Naoufal, Le Devoir
[...] beautiful images are created with strength and brilliance throughout the play. — DF Danse
Upcoming events:
Figuren Theater Festival, Nuremberg, May 20th 2023
Lightning Guerrilla Festival, Ljubljana, June 2nd 2023
Dance Base by Assembly Theatre, Fringe Edinburg, 15th-27 August 2023
Presented at:
La Rotonde, Quebec 2023,CAM on Tour, Montreal 2023, BIDAM, Busan 2022, La Fundicion, Bilbao 2022,
Excerpts at:
Off-CINARS, Montreal 2022Tangente, Montreal 2020, Parcours Danse 2019, Montreal, 2019, Festival ZH, Montreal, 2017, Métamorphose, Studio 303, Montreal, 2016