Two years after her experience at Maison Tanguay (... > more info) Claire Jenny,  choreographer and  french artistic director of the dance company POINT VIRGULE, came back to Quebec to put into place a new creative choreographic project, mixing six incarcerated women with a troupe of quebec dancers from the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM).  The project was entitled « De-tension ».

"Claire Jenny brings more than 10 years of experience to the carceral milieu.  Her creative work attemps to connect what builds or weakens us, questioning the sense of being in this world.  She encourages us to reflect profoundly on the idea of a resilient body capable of becoming strong again.  She creates a choreographic language where the sensitive body is at the heart of self knowledge, far beyond pain.  She develops a project of restitution of feelings of self, the first step in the reconstruction of oneself by singular self-expression.”   Nathalie Schulmann

With the help of a video camera, her friend and colleague Margaux Murray documented the work of creation as well as the show given at Joliette Institution. 

Here are some images...

This project was supported by the  Correctional Service of Canada, Joliette Institution and financed by the Minister of French Culture.