Les Ballets Jazz De Montréal: Dance Me FEB 14 – 15 / 7:30 PM
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Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal: Dance Me FEB 14 – 15 / 7:30 PM Louis Robitaille ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jeremy Raia BALLET MASTER Céline Cassone ARTISTIC COORDINATOR Céline Cassone, Yosmell Calderon PRINCIPAL ARTISTS Brandi Baker, Jeremy Coachman, Shanna Irwin, Terra Kell, Elijah Labay, Marcel Mejia, Andrew Mikhaiel, Benjamin Mitchell, Saskya Pauzé-Bégin, Julia Radick, Madeleine Salhany, Ermanno Sbezzo ARTISTS Louis Morisset TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Josée Kleinbaum TOUR DIRECTOR Daniel Ranger et Domenic Castelli HEAD CARPENTER Manon Meunier HEAD OF SOUND Claude Plante HEAD OF LIGHTING Steve Montambault et Eric Fauque HEAD OF VIDEO PUBLIC PARTNERS Dance Me runs approximately 80 minutes, with no intermission. BJM would like to thank Judy Bronfman for the support given to the creation of the show and The Marjorie and Gerald Bronfman Foundation for their support given to the creation. This performance is made possible, in part, with the support of the Consulate General of Canada. Photo Marc Montplaisir - Montplaisir Marc Photo Hille Alexander and Cassone Céline Artists: PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 8 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Louis Robitaille BOARD OF DIRECTORS songs: Andonis Foniadakis, Annabelle IDEATION Lopez Ochoa and Ihsan Rustem. Their François Vaqué powerful and profound choreographic Eric Jean PRESIDENT world reflective of Cohen’s singular DRAMATURGY AND STAGE DIRECTION Steve Desgagné et work is brought to life by 14 BJM Andonis Foniadakis, Paul Juneau performing artists. Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, VICE-PRESIDENTS Surrounded by a team of celebrated Ihsan Rustem designers, Dance Me combines scenic, Odile Poupart visual, musical, dramaturgical and CHOREOGRAPHY TREASURER choreographic writing to pay tribute to Martin Léon Brigitte Nepveu Montréal’s greatest ambassador. Dance, MUSIC DIRECTION SECRETARY music, lighting, scenography and Alexis Dumais Noémie Brière-Marquez videography all come together in this MUSIC CONCEPTION unforgettable show, for which BJM has Vasco Ceccon been granted exclusive dance rights for Pierre-Etienne Locas Matyas Gabor five years. SCENOGRAPHY AND PROP Benoît Grenier CONCEPTION Songs by Leonard Cohen Alexandre Brunet Alexandre Lagarde Suzanne (1967); So Long, Marianne SCENOGRAPHY TECHNICAL Hélène Lamarre (1967); Famous Blue Raincoat (1971); DIRECTION Dominique Lapierre Lover, Lover, Lover (1974); Hallelujah (1984); First We Take Manhattan (1988); Cédric Delorme-Bouchard, Jean-François Laroque Tower of Song (1988); Everybody knows Simon Beetschen Tammy Peddle (2001); Here It Is (2001); Dance Me LIGHTING DESIGN AND Olivier Perron-Collins to the End of Love (live in London, PRODUCTION 2009); Boogie Street (live in London, Mathieu Piché-Messier 2009); Nevermind (2014); Steer Your Gonzalo Soldi, Thomas Benoit-Pierre Stock Way (2016); It Seemed the Better Way Payette, Jeremy Fassio Line Tanguay (2016); String Reprise / Treaty (2016); A Thousand Kisses Deep (poem) VIDEO DESIGN HUB STUDIO MEMBERS Philippe Dubuc Excerpts of songs COSTUME DESIGN Website: www.bjmdanse.ca Anne-Marie Veevaete Suzanne Follow us! And you want to travel with her, COSTUME PRODUCTION Facebook/LesBalletsJazzdeMontréal And you want to travel blind Elsa Posnic Instagram/balletsjazzdemontreal And you know that ASSISTANCE STAGE DIRECTION Twitter@bjmdanse She will trust you Guy Fortin For you’ve touched her Perfect body with your mind SOUND ENGINEER Leonard Cohen’s Dance Me is an exclusive creation Dance Me Dance Me to the End of Love Marie-Joëlle Tremblay inspired by the rich and profound work Dance me to the wedding now, of Montréal-based poet, artist and DEPUTY GENERAL MANAGER Dance me on and on songwriter, Leonard Cohen. Approved Liane Barriault Dance me very tenderly by Leonard Cohen during his lifetime And dance me very long ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCE and under the artistic direction of We’re both of us beneath our love, MANAGER Louis Robitaille and the strong and bold We’re both of us above Alexia Deruard dramaturgy of Eric Jean, this riveting Dance me to the end of love homage to the famed poet-singer- COMMUNICATIONS AND Dance me to the end of love songwriter evokes the grand cycles of FUNDRAISING MANAGER existence in five seasons, as described Gabrielle Paquin Treaty in Cohen’s deeply reflective music and And I wish there was a treaty ACCOUNTING AND poems. We could sign ADMINISTRATION TECHNICIAN Three internationally renowned I wish there was a treaty choreographers were entrusted with Between your love and mine putting movement to Cohen’s legendary PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 9 ABOUT THE ARTISTS So Long, Marianne initiative of Madam Chiriaeff, whom BJM in 1998, where he redefined the So long Marianne, he viewed as a mentor, the young company's artistic approach without It’s time that we began dancer was recruited by the Grands abandoning its unique nature. To laugh and cry and cry and Ballets Canadiens in 1978. As part of the Louis Robitaille is the recipient of the Laugh about it all again GBC's 20th anniversary program, he Order of Canada, the Ordre national du was chosen for the title role in Lucas Québec and the Jacqueline Lemieux Famous Blue Raincoat Hoving's modern dance classic Icarus. Prize. He has received numerous grants It’s four in the morning, In the early 1980s he was invited on from the Quebec Ministry of Culture, The end of December several occasions to perform with and he and his company were awarded I’m writing you now the Ballets de l’Opéra in Avignon, the Prix Rideau Hommage in addition Just to see if you’re better France. It was there that he had a to the Montréal Arts Council's Prix de New York is cold, significant encounter with Rudy Bryans. reconnaissance. But I like where I’m living This principal dancer with the Ballet There’s music on Clinton Street National de Marseille (a company ERIC JEAN (Stage Director) All through the evening directed by Roland Petit) made a is without a shadow of a doubt one of big impact on Louis Robitaille, as he the most esteemed and outstanding ABOUT THE ARTISTS became a source of inspiration and stage directors of his generation. LES BALLETS JAZZ DE MONTRÉAL is a guide who greatly influenced his His appointment in 2004 as General an internationally renowned repertory dancing and his artistic path. and Artistic Director of Théâtre de Quat’Sous, and his ensuing success, company that has evolved with In 1984 he participated in the Helsinki are a reflection of the trust and spirited energy ever since its birth International Ballet Competition with confidence he has established in the in 1972. Under the artistic direction his partner Anik Bissonnette. They of Louis Robitaille since 1998, and theatre milieu, which quickly saw him performed Eddy Toussaint's Un simple boasting a troupe of world-class as a bold, unique artist who has made moment, and won a gold medal for the a significant artistic contribution to dancers, BJM now works with some choreographer. They were invited to Quebec theatre. of the most prestigious figures in the perform at the Festival of Two Worlds in world of dance and contemporary Spoleto, Italy by its founder Gian Carlo A prolific and inventive director and ballet, without ever losing sight of its Menotti, who proved to be a supportive an occasional actor, he is greatly true essence. Since its inception, the presence. They also performed as appreciated for his commitment to up- company has performed more than guest artists at three festivals directed and-coming artists, both as a teacher 2,600 shows in 68 countries for nearly by Menotti in Italy, and at Spoleto and also at the professional level. 3 million spectators. Festival USA in Charleston as well Where Eric Jean has made his as the Melbourne International Arts LOUIS ROBITAILLE mark and his reputation, however, Festival in Australia, in addition to guest is in his creative approach. Using (Artistic Director) artist performances with the Ballet de The dancer and structured improvisations as his Toulouse in France and many around point of departure, he also works in artistic director Louis the world. Robitaille was born in conjunction with playwright and set Montréal in 1957. Louis Louis Robitaille joined the Grands design, gradually piecing together his Robitaille was inspired Ballets Canadiens as a principal stage plays. Striking examples of this, © Christopher Pozio © Christopher to pursue a career in dancer in 1989. Between 1990 and which he calls “writing as action,” are dance after being discovered at a high his departure in 1998, he added 35 of course his renowned Hippocampe, school dance performance in 1973. His roles to his repertoire in works by written in collaboration with Pascal natural talent attracted the attention choreographers such as Balanchine, Brullemans, and his 2009 staging of of his physical education teacher Peter Dolin, Duato, Fokine, Forsythe, Kudelka, Chambre(s), co-written with Pascal George, who was also a dancer with the Kylián, Limon, Lock, Nault and Tudor. Chevarie. Not only was Hippocampe the recipient of the 2003 Prix de Ballets Jazz de Montréal. Thanks to Mr. In 1994 Louis Robitaille became la critique, but the director was George's intervention, he received a Artistic Director of the Jeune Ballet du also nominated for the prestigious scholarship enabling him to take part Québec, where he explored new dance Siminovitch Prize in 2004, one of five in the BJM summer training program. forms. Encouraged by the response finalists. In 1974 at the age of 16, Louis Robitaille to his work, he established a small joined the Compagnie de danse Eddy chamber ballet group, Bande à Part, Other notable productions were Toussaint (later known as the Ballet de and also founded Danse-Théâtre de Corps étrangers/Cuerpos extranos Montréal), where he performed and Montréal. (2005), a piece co-written with Pascal studied dance under the tutelage of a Brullemans and first created in Mexico Along with Karen Kain, Frank Augustyn, wide range of ballet masters. before being presented in Quebec.