Choreographic toolkit - press kit

BAGNE press kit 1998-2017

Work
BAGNE
Years
1998-2017

This document gathers all the press articles surrounding the work BAGNE (1998-2017) by Jeff Hall and Pierre-Paul Savoie (some articles in English).

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…

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Video interview

Interview with Francis Ducharme

In this candid interview with Angélique Willkie, Francis Ducharme describes the obsessions of the four major choreographers involved in the Danse Mutante project. He explains the rules of the game, which he and Riley Sims sought to uphold. He shares the tears, uncomfortable moments, and…

Event recording

CONSTRAINED BODY, DANCING BODY – 3rd discussion circle

Dance for healing. Dance for existence and celebration. Dance means freedom for Indigenous dancers whose expression today takes multiple forms and styles. The event CONSTRAINED BODY, DANCING BODY Conversations and performances on Indigenous dance in Quebec today organized by Ondinnok and Tangente took place from…

Excerpt from work

The dis/embodied archive

In the gallery’s refined space, Sybille Müller dances the embodied and disembodied archive in five movements. Through words and dance, the artist takes us through different timelines of the gallery’s history.

Article

L’auteur·e en danse : Allocution de Lucie Boissinot (in French)

« L’artiste est (…) quelqu’un qui saute tous les jours d’un aéroplane sans parachute, mais avec des ailes dans le cerveau. » Steven Cohen, danseur queer engagé