The White Room

The White Room brings together eleven performers in a closed space, an astonishing set, evoking in turn the intimacy of the bedroom, the coldness of the psychiatric hospital and the isolation of the fortress. In this closed space, the narrowness of the walls of a milky limpidity leads to loss of balance, fainting and vertigo. There, several destinies intertwine, unsubmissive beings bound by promiscuity try to break their isolation, agitate, struggle and feed on their dreams. The dance becomes the penetrating expression of tensions, of a crazy emotional expenditure. This work earned Ginette Laurin and O Vertigo the 1992 Grand Prix of the Conseil des arts de Montréal and the Dora Mavor Moore Award in Toronto. It has been presented in North America, Europe and Asia. The White Room has been seen in many international festivals.