Video interview

Histoire d’une création (in French)

Place
Department of Dance of the Université du Québec à Montréal
Date
April 27, 2017
Editor
Xavier Curnillon
Recording
Xavier Curnillon
Length
25 min 50
Production
Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault

Interview with Jeff Hall and Pierre-Paul Savoie on their work Bagne, conducted by Andrée Martin on April 27, 2017, at the Department of Dance of the Université du Québec à Montréal.

The production of this video was made possible through the financial support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, as part of Quebec’s digital cultural plan.
A big thank you to Andrée Martin, Jeff Hall and Pierre-Paul Savoie, as well as UQAM’s Department of Dance, for helping with the logistics!

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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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