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.

Project

BAGNE Choreographic Toolkit

Production
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...

Events

Launch of the choreographic toolkits Bagne and Les Choses dernières

On November 21, 2017, the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault launched the choreographic toolkits Bagne, by Jeff Hall and Pierre-Paul Savoie, and Les Choses dernières, by Lucie Grégoire.    Digital collection of choreographic toolkits The toolkits, based on an original idea by Ginelle Chagnon, are a collection…

More to discover

Video interview

Greed — Thou shalt not steal. Eric Bernier meets Nicholas Bellefleur (excerpt)

Greed — Thou shalt not steal Harold Rhéaume interviews Nicholas Bellefleur dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Eric Bernier, dancer of the 1998 version. To see the full version: here

Video interview

Shame — Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Sophie Corriveau meets Eve Rousseau-Cyr (excerpt)

Shame — Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour Harold Rhéaume interviews Eve Rousseau-Cyr dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Sophie Corriveau, dancer of the 1998 version. To see the full version: here

Video interview

Illusion — Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Patrick Lamothe meets Jean-François Duke (excerpt)

Illusion — Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain Harold Rhéaume interviews Jean-François Duke dancer in the 2021 version of Les Dix Commandements and Patrick Lamothe, dancer of the 1998 version. To see the full version: here

Excerpt from work

Video excerpt of A horrifying dance, or how a dance survives

Biography Marcela Correa (she, her) was born in Quito, Ecuador. She trained as a dancer at Frente de Danza Independiente in Quito, which she co-founded in 1985, studying with Wilson Pico, Kléver Viera, and Carlos Cornejo. She earned a Master’s degree in Expressive Arts Therapy…