From January 7 to 18, 2019, Ginelle Chagnon taught excerpts from Jean-Pierre Perreault’s Nuit to professional dancers at the Toronto-based company Citadel + Compagnie. The workshop concluded with a moving performance before an audience of 25, including James Kudelka. Our thanks to Laurence Lemieux, Artistic Director of Citadel + Compagnie, who initiated this dance transmission project, and to Ginelle Chagnon, who made it possible.
Nuit workshop with Citadel + Compagnie
January 7 to 18, 2019
Project
1990-2022 (ongoing)
Since the late 1990s, Ginelle Chagnon (Jean-Pierre Perreault’s former rehearsal director) has transmitted the choreographer’s repertoire. Following Perreault’s passing, some works were remounted in Quebec and abroad, including Joe in 2004 and Les Ombres dans ta tête at the Ballet de Lorraine in 2008. In…