Excerpt from work

BAGNE Excerpt – Women version 1998

Date
December 2 to 5, 1998
Place
Salle DuMaurier du Monument-National, Montréal
Editor
Laura Jeanne Lefave
Video recording
Pierre-Paul Savoie and Jeff Hall.
Length
15 min 21 sec
Choreographers
Pierre-Paul Savoie et Jeff Hall
Dancers
Carole Courtois & Sarah Williams
Technical director and lightning
Normand Vincent
Head rigger
Yvan Zanetti
Costumes
Carole Courtois
Floor patine
Yolande Brouillard
Stagehand
Stéphane Moreau
Sound
Arnold Brookhuis, Pascal Pié

Created in 1993, BAGNE is the centrepiece of a ten-year-plus collaboration between two Montreal-based choreographers and performers: Jeff Hall and Pierre-Paul Savoie. In 1998, the work was transmitted to two female dancers (Sarah Williams and Carole Courtois) who performed the adaptation brilliantly.

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BAGNE Choreographic Toolkit

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BAGNE is the centrepiece of a ten-year-plus collaboration between two Montreal-based choreographers and performers: Jeff Hall and Pierre-Paul Savoie. Graduates of the Department of Contemporary Dance at Concordia University, where they met, they both had unique career trajectories: Jeff as a former Frisbee champion and...

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