Danser Joe in Toronto

November 11 - 12, 2016

The workshop Danser Joe was presented in Toronto, in co-production with MOonhoRsE dance theatre, as part of the Older & Reckless show marking the company’s 20th anniversary. 

From November 7 to 12, Catherine Tardif and Bonnie Kim led the workshop created by Ginelle Chagnon. Over the course of a week, nearly 30 amateur dancers immersed themselves in Perreault’s flagship work and performed three excerpts on stage. 

Thanks to Claudia Moore, Artistic Director of MOonhoRsE dance theatre, and to her team for proposing this event.

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Danser Joe

2015 - 2022

Since 2013, the workshops for dancers and non-dancers created by Ginelle Chagnon have helped revive Jean-Pierre Perreault’s choreographic repertoire throughout Quebec. The Danser Joe workshops, which are designed for amateur dancers and high school students through the Culture-Education directory, allow participants of all ages to immerse…

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Danser Joe at Older & Reckless #39
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Danser Joe at Older & Reckless #39

Presentation of a Danser Joe workshop led by Catherine Tardif, assisted by Bonnie Kim (created in 2013 by Ginelle Chagnon) in Toronto for Older & Reckless #39. A coproduction of MoONhORsE Dance Theater Older & Reckless #39 presented by MOonhORsE Dance Theatre in association with Harbourfront Centre, November…

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Danser Joe dans la ville is a workshop for amateur dancers and non-dancers that allows its participants to live a unique performance experience while discovering an outstanding work of the contemporary choreographic repertoire.

In Joe, a work created in 1983, then repeated many times until 2004, Jean-Pierre Perreault evokes both collective anonymity and individual singularity; the choreographer develops parameters that are dear to him: the movement of the performer at the origin of part of the music and the gravity of the body, itself emblematic of the human condition.

Curated by Claudia Moore, MOonhORsE Dance Theatre

Co-production of the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault and MOonhORsE Dance Theatre