Video interview
Legacy Project – episode 3: Conflict-Transformation
Date
Summer 2015Length
11 min 26Production
The Margie Gillis Dance FoundationDancers
Adam Barruch, Eric Jackson Bradley, Ruth Levin, Ayelen Liberona, Caroline Liffman, Ayesha Mansur, Lucy May, Delphina Parenti, Susie Paulson, Paula StyronConcept and videography
Ayelen Liberona - A Wandering EyeEditing
Joseph Johnson-Cami, Ayelen LiberonaEditing assistant
Ayesha MansurOriginal music
Nicolas Murr
The Margie Gillis Dance Foundation presents The Legacy Project / Projet Héritage, an initiative dedicated to preserve and transmit Margie Gillis’ unique and important creative heritage.
The combined documents are from the first project development stage, which took place in Acton Vale in the summer of 2015. The pilot project enabled more than 10 participants from Canada and the United States to intimately enter Margie’s creative world through discussions as well as performance, creation and teaching workshops.
The video was produced in collaboration with the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault.
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In June 2015, ten dance artists came to Quebec to take part in a period of reflection and experimentation around the Legacy Project, developed by the Margie Gillis Dance Foundation. For ten days, the participants explored Margie Gillis’ repertoire and unique methods of teaching. They…
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