Publication

Openings: Perspectives on Choreographic Toolkits and Documentation in Dance

For Openings, Lise Gagnon invited close to 20 dance practitioners—dancers, choreographers and researchers—to examine the Espace Perreault’s choreographic toolkits from a meta perspective by opening them, interrogating them and unpacking them, in order to view them from different angles and explore their immense potential.

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Openings

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For Openings. Perspectives on Choreographic Toolkits and Documentation in Dance, Lise Gagnon invited close to 20 dance practitioners (dancers, choreographers and researchers) to examine the choreographic toolkits from a meta perspective by opening them, interrogating them and unpacking them, in order to view them from…

Events

Ouvrir la boîte and La danse de Hanako – Hanako’s Dance

In this virtual launch held on December 9, 2020, some 20 dance artists, writers and visual artists shared their experiences in two publications: La danse de Hanako – Hanako’s Dance and Ouvrir la boîte. Regards sur les boîtes chorégraphiques et la documentation en danse. These…

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Article

Territoires Partagés – essay by Lucy Fandel (In French and English)

Nous et la classe Lucy Fandel   Last summer, if you showed up to Nous Sommes L’Été (NSL)’s Classes du matin in Montreal, you would be led by three dancers, Corinne Crane, Alexandra Caron, and Marie-Michelle Darveau. Each would propose a different set of exercises,…

Video interview

Angélique Willkie Pedagogy Project: Listening, feeling and euphoria

Produced and directed by N. Zoey Gauld and Emmanuelle Bourassa Beaudoin Video direction: Jonathan Inksetter Music: Thom Gossage Cameras: Jonathan Inksetter et Frédérique Rivest

Audio interview

Territoires Partagés – audio interview with Claudia Chan Tak, Elizabeth-Ann Dorléans, Lea Fong Tremblay, Brice Noeser and Cara Roy

An interview conducted by Alexis Trépanier with Claudia Chan Tak, Elizabeth-Ann Dorléans, Lea Fong Tremblay, Brice Noeser and Cara Roy. A podcast chock full of insight that reveals how they approached their dance training practice in December 2018. In addition to technical classes, the artists…

Website

Sismography Recording the injuries, grief, and perils of dance

Sismography is a collaborative platform that is a home to the stories of dancers. It is a sensitive archive of the subtle tremors and deep shudders that have marked their practice and that often remain taboo: physical and psychological injuries, illness, conditions, and disabilities that can impede, prevent,...