After mesmerizing the public and being selected among the 10 best productions of the year by The Globe and Mail and the Montreal Gazette, the performance Sisyphus by artist Victor Pilon was awarded the Grand Prix of the Conseil des arts de Montréal. The marathon performance produced by Lemieux Pilon 4D Art won the Council's highest honor that recognizes the most outstanding artistic achievement of the year according to the jury.

Montreal, Monday, August 30, 2021 — Starting on Tuesday, September 28, for 30 days, multidisciplinary creator Victor Pilon will offer the first solo performance of his career: Sisyphus, a performance marathon. Produced by Lemieux Pilon 4D Art, with the support of the Olympic Park and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, this unique performance will take place in the Mercier—Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood, in the East Hall of the Montreal Olympic Stadium. Sisyphus at Olympus!

50 tons of sand, 30 days, 6 days a week, 7 hours a day

World-renowned artist and director Michel Lemieux releases his first stereoscopic 360-degree film Untouched for free on online VR platforms. A self-produced, home-made confinement experiment, Untouched is an artistic look at life during the pandemic quarantine. How people become distant as society grows apart. The longing desire to touch and be touched back. Everything feels so out of reach.

Teaser Trailer: https://vimeo.com/543648431 For Oculus headsets: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/media/103833258339800/1177998435947602/ For VeeR app: https://veer.tv/videos/untouched-short-film-directed-michel-lemieux-351416

After being showcased during Cannes XR Festival last June, Michel Lemieux’s virtual-reality (VR) work, Icarus, has been selected for LFF Expanded which will be held from October 7 to 18, 2020. The virtual, online event dedicated to XR experiences and immersive movies is part of the 64th BFI London Film Festival.

Michel Lemieux’s virtual-reality (VR) work, Icarus, will receive its world premiere at Cannes XR Virtual, in the Tribeca Immersive section, which will be held from June 24 to 26, 2020. The virtual, online event dedicated to immersive technologies is part of the pre-eminent Cannes Festival’s, Marché du Film (Film Market).

Icarus is a virtual-reality adaptation inspired by the multidisciplinary show Icare, presented at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in 2014. This, Lemieux’s first VR work, is a co-production of Lemieux Pilon 4D Art and Normal Studio.

Michel Lemieux, designer, director for film and stage, and set designer for numerous digital productions and installations, notably for Cirque du Soleil, the Cité Mémoire urban circuit, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, contributed to the Museum's exhibition Thierry Mugler: Couturissime a digital work of virtual projections entitled The Dissapearance of Lady Macbeth, with music by Johann Johannsson.

What better way to celebrate the planetarium’s 5th anniversary than by bringing back the two shows that have been audience favourites since it opened in 2013? Starting May 1, Espace pour la vie will be presenting a crowdpleasing double feature: Continuum and Aurōrae.

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For information : Nadine Fortin, Communications Co-ordinator, Espace pour la vie, 514 868-3053

Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon (4D Art), and Isabelle Chassé and Patrick Léonard (Les 7 Doigts) bring you their new work, Temporel, a passionate and humourous blend of poetry, digital illusions and body movement that explores new forms of artistic expression set to an original score by Julien Mineau (Malajube, Fontarabie) and the acrobatic choreography of Shana Carroll. The show runs at the Cinquième Salle of Place des Arts in Montreal from Jan. 10 to 27.

A man's life is told in fragments, out of sequence. We first meet him as an old man, his lifelong partner beside him, surrounded by piles of books, lost in a metaphorical forest of memory. But in his head the man is every age: adult, infant, elderly, child, all at once. As he recalls his past, a number of other characters, both real and imaginary, emerge. The man is trying to find his place in the world: he seeks happiness, true love, the woman he lost. Will he be able to establish his identity in a world become increasingly unreal?

Temporel, a Bell presentation, is interpreted by Patrick Léonard, Isabelle Chassé and Gisle Henriet, along with a number of characters generated by virtual reality.

Temporel is a co-production with Place des Arts (through its Residencies and Co-Production Program) and France's Espace Jean-Legendre – Théâtre de Compiègne, Scène nationale de l'Oise en préfiguration. The show is also produced with the technical collaboration of Montreal's VYV Studio.

Information and interviews : IXION Communications, 514 495-8176, judith.dubeau@ixioncommunications.com

Photo : Jean-François Gratton / Shootstudio.ca

Lemieux Pilon 4D Art today won the 30th Grand Prix of the Conseil des arts de Montréal. To mark this 30th edition, the Conseil awarded the company the sum of $30,000! The jury described these artists as ambassadors reflecting Montreal’s artistic growth and vitality.

For its exceptional presence in 2014, crowned by 30th anniversary activities of all shapes and sizes, culminating in a retrospective immersive exhibition held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Dreamscapes: 30 Years of Innovative Performances.

The winner will be known on March 26th, 2015...

Only two weeks left to enjoy Continuum, that will whisks you off on a spectacular voyage from the infinitely small to the infinitely large, all enhanced by the music of Philip Glass!

Click here for all the infos about Continuum

This is the last chance to see Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon’s Dreamscapes: 30 Years of Innovative Performances, on now at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition/installation has been extended until September 28. Dreamscapes has been at the prestigious Montreal institution since May 1 of this year.

Daniel Lamarre, President and CEO of Cirque du Soleil and Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron announced a new partnership to develop an arena-touring show inspired by the world of Cameron’s history-making motion picture, AVATAR. This “live experience” is expected to debut late 2015 for what will become a global touring schedule.

The Museum will present – as a principal partner – the 2014 International Digital Arts Biennial with the multidisciplinary company Lemieux & Pilon 4D Art.

This retrospective exhibition, an immersive installation, will celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the company founded in Montreal in 1983. With over thirty original productions to its credit already, Lemieux Pilon 4D Art has breathed new life into performance art through a bold combination of theatre, film, dance, poetry, music, visual arts and sound to create original and captivating worlds that have been acclaimed wherever they perform.

En cette année marquant le 100e anniversaire de naissance de Norman McLaren, le 30e de la compagnie Lemieux Pilon 4D Art, et le 50e de la Place des Arts, la Cinquième Salle accueille du 27 mars au 12 avril 2014 les dernières représentations montréalaises de NORMAN, extraordinaire coup de chapeau au talent et à la créativité du pionnier de notre cinéma d’animation. Créé par Michel Lemieux et Victor Pilon en collaboration avec le danseur et chorégraphe Peter Trosztmer, NORMAN est un fascinant spectacle de danse-cinéma-musique dont la magie vous habitera longtemps !

Activities for Lemieux Pilon 4D Art 30'th anniversary