Spring Marmalade

A physical manifesto for finding oneself through others, where raw energy and the spirit of rebellion meet the poetry and finesse of Botticelli's masterpiece.

Choreography, dramaturgy, and staging

Morgane Le Tiec, in collaboration with the performers

Creative assistant

Stéphanie Brochard

Performer

Lina (Caroline) Namts
Flora Spang
Gabrielle Simard
Juan Sebastian Hoyos Correa
Julien Derradj

Costume design

Marilène Bastien

Scenography advisor

Idéation : Éric Dizon
Design and realization : Georgia Leigh Newsam

Music

Blaise Borböen-Léonard

Lighting

Andréanne Deschênes

Philosophical companionship

Gilles Abel

From renaissance to effervescence

Spring Marmalade blasts Botticelli’s masterpiece in a jubilant collision of Renaissance poetry and raw punk energy. On stage, elegance rubs shoulders with rebellion, delicacy flirts with the absurd, and humor appears where you least expect it.

This show, aimed at teenagers aged 14 and over, doesn’t just revisit “Primavera”: it transgresses it, shakes it up, reinvents it. Here, bodies explode, emotions overflow, and each character reveals his or her flaws, impulses and contradictions.

It’s a dazzling mix in which oranges, recurring symbols, remind us of our capacity to let go of our peels, to reveal what bubbles up inside us, and to welcome the unexpected part of the other. They become a sign of everything that mixes and invents itself through contact with others.

Spring Marmalade invites us not to remain mere spectators, but to let ourselves be surprised, to question, to plunge into this boiling marmalade. Here, each and every one of us moves forward, unvarnished, and the encounter takes place in what overflows, escapes and surprises.

Spring Marmalade is an embodied reflection on identity, the quest for meaning, social cohesion and joyful, desperate revolt. An invitation to explore the complexity of human relationships, to let anger and joy coexist, and to celebrate vulnerability as strength.

Here, hybridity reigns: classical and punk, sweetness and bite, introspection and exuberance. The show becomes a physical manifesto for “being together”, a cry for freedom in which everyone embraces their place, their questions, their intimate echoes. In short: an experience to be lived, felt and questioned – without ever sinking into cliché or easiness.

Spring Marmalade: three impulses – that of the heart, that of the body and that of exuberance – to compose, together, an ode to life that makes no apologies for being (sometimes) irreverent.

Show for teenagers aged 12 and over.

Duration: 50 minutes
Age: Family: 12 years and older | School: Secondary school, second cycle

Available on tour – Fall 2025

Press review

“For about 45 minutes, the five performers took the intergenerational audience on a journey from anger to extravagance, via joy, love, sadness, and moments of absurd humor. All without ever leaving the stage and without really using words.

To highlight the contrasts between the different emotions expressed by the characters, the soundtrack evolves as the play unfolds, shifting from opera to dubstep. Obviously, the dancers have no choice but to follow the rhythm imposed by the music. Oranges are at the heart of the beautifully lit set. They are picked, dropped, thrown, stomped on, and bitten. Entire sections of the show take place while the performers have one in their mouths, which, let’s be honest, must be rather difficult for breathing. This high-quality Sherbrooke production sometimes makes you laugh, sometimes cry, but above all, it manages to keep the audience on the edge of their seats throughout. The performers’ flawless performance has a lot to do with it.

Éric Faucher,
La Tribune

”Spring Marmalade’’: a work that radiates an incredible zest for life. A contemporary dance performance, as beautiful and lively as youth itself. As inspiring as youth itself. Judging by the reactions at the end of the performance, this show strikes a chord. The inventive choreography is full of themes and brilliant ideas. The five artists on stage perform with great sensitivity.
I left moved to tears, yet smiling. Contemporary dance that is both captivating and accessible. Bravo. I hope “ Spring Marmalade ” will travel far and wide.

Anik Moulin,
Radio Canada

On the Calendar:

February 2026

February 28, 2026 – 3 p.m. | SPRING MARMALADE | Public performance | Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto | Montreal, QC

April 2026

photo credits: Mickaël Theimer