LEMIEUX - THE ALBUM

Released in 1986 on the Audiogram label, LEMIEUX brings together songs from the Solide Salad show created by Michel Lemieux. Available starting August 16 2024 on digital streaming services. More details on the Audiogram website.

40th anniversary - Special projections

FREE - Book your seat for September 24 or 26

Exclusive presentation of the captation of Solide Salad (dir. Jean Salvy, prod. Télé-Québec - 1985) and of the L'univers de... Michel Lemieux (dir. Jean-Guy Séguin, prod. Télé-Québec - 1985) documentary, in full high definition for the first time, will be screened at Cinémathèque québécoise late September.

News article by Mario Girard in La Presse [in French]

Solide Salad is like nothing else. Music? Dance? Theatre? This amazing one-man show by a 26-year-old Quebecer is everything all at once. A feat in and of itself, the performance is transcended by the unrelenting rigour of the multidisciplinary production. Lemieux’s antecedents, photography and design, enable a remarkable interplay between his body and light. His voice recalls that of Yma Sumac... Compared with Laurie Anderson, his eccentric humour appeals to a broad audience... The light beams that this little prince shoots at the audience are arrows – not fatal but galvanizing – like a Dadaist gatekeeper’s call. A style so modern and so rare... – Franck Mallet

THE SHOW

In 1984, Michel Lemieux's multidisciplinary solo show SOLIDE SALAD made its mark on the national and international performing arts scene, and was performed on stages on four continents for years.

A multidisciplinary performance combining music, dance and visual arts, Solide Salad was presented to sold-out crowds for several months at the Spectrum in Montreal in 1984, before touring North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, and then being presented at the Universal Expo in Vancouver. Michel Lemieux was one of the first Quebec artists to achieve international success with this innovative work.

In 1984, Solide Salad and the album produced by Audiogram changed my life forever and shaped its era, according to the many testimonials I've received over the past 40 years. People still talk to me about it today! According to many, the cultural resonance of this show has been part of Quebec's culture right up to the present day. There's so much more to say about the experimental New Wave movement, bursting with invention and creativity. - Michel Lemieux