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BAGNE Excerpt – Women version 1998
Date
December 2 to 5, 1998Place
Salle DuMaurier du Monument-National, MontréalEditor
Laura Jeanne LefaveVideo recording
Pierre-Paul Savoie and Jeff Hall.Length
15 min 21 secChoreographers
Pierre-Paul Savoie et Jeff HallDancers
Carole Courtois & Sarah WilliamsTechnical director and lightning
Normand VincentHead rigger
Yvan ZanettiCostumes
Carole CourtoisFloor patine
Yolande BrouillardStagehand
Stéphane MoreauSound
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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