The EZ Montreal Art Podcast: Tino Sehgal

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In season two, episode seven of the EZ Montreal Art Podcast, Eloi Desjardins and Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand discuss the recent exhibit by Tino Sehgal at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.

The EZ Montreal Podcast: Tino Sehgal

Listen (22:59):

Download: Ogg Vorbis 14MB, MP3 28MB, Flac 73MB, WAV 232MB.

Performers of Kiss, 2007 and This Situation, 2007 © Philippe Casgrain

Performers of Kiss, 2007 and This Situation, 2007 © Philippe Casgrain

Some YouTube videos of Tino Sehgal’s work

Some of the local dance companies that are doing similar stuff to Mr. Sehgal, just not in museums:
Paul Andre Fortier, Sylvain Emard Danse, Marie Chouinard, Les Imprudanses, Ballet de Ruelle.

Lucio Fontana is the Italian artist that Zeke could not remember.

And if you want to see Jackie Robinson in The Jackie Robinson Story…

And if you would like to hear (or download) the interview that Eloi did with Asad Raza, click on the appropriate links:
Download: Ogg Vorbis 6MB, MP3 14MB, Flac 46MB, WAV 83MB.

If you have the answer to the trivia question email us at ezmontrealart@gmail.com and you can win fabulous prizes!

And finally, the podcast referred to at the end as season two, episode eight, is actually Season 2, episode 5.5. we recorded it out of order. Apologies for any confusion.

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Published: April 24th, 2013
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La Otra Orilla, HomoBLABLAtus (a ridiculously long and incredibly detailed review)

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Once again, as per normal I’m a little late on this one. Back in January I saw HomoBLABLAtus at La Cinquieme Salle of Place des Arts, the latest performance from La Otra Orilla. I initially thought of trying to do a video review, but then changed my mind. It still took a while to do.

La Otra Orilla, HomoBLABLAtus

Listen (16:50):


Download: Ogg Vorbis 10MB, MP3 20MB, Flac 63MB, WAV 170MB.

La Otra Orilla, d'HomoBLABLAtus. Photo Lydia Pawelak, courtesy La Otra Orilla

La Otra Orilla, d’HomoBLABLAtus. Photo Lydia Pawelak, courtesy La Otra Orilla

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Published: March 12th, 2013
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From the archives: Victor Quijada and Marie-Eve Albert interviewed

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I was recently going through some misfiled stuff of mine at Archive.org, and came across this interview I did with Victor Quijada from Rubberbandance Group back in 2009. It hasn’t gotten much love since then as it was not in the Zeke’s Gallery collection at Archive.org among other reasons. I gave it a listen and still get a big kick out of it. Thought you might like to hear it as well.

Listen (13:45):


Download:
MP3 14MB, Ogg Vorbis 24MB, Stream

I also rediscovered this gem, also from 2009. where I spoke with Marie-Eve Albert from Imprudanses (and if you like it, they are performing on February 3 at Café Campus – go see them. They are awesome!)

Listen (11:05):


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Two things occurred to me while going through the misfiled stuff, a) sometime this year I am going to upload my 1,000 podcast and b) I have some work to do in order to clean things up.

Published: January 16th, 2013
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Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal 40th Anniversary Program. Fuel, Closer and Harry.

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This audio business isn’t as easy as falling out of bed… I initially recorded this piece about the performance of Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal that I saw somewhere at the very beginning of October. And here it is, the beginning of November and I’m finally able to post it. Go Figure!

Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal 40th Anniversary Program. Fuel, Closer and Harry.

Listen (34:30):


Download: Ogg Vorbis 21MB, MP3 35MB, Flac 174MB, WAV 348MB.

The other review that I reference is this one, from Rover by someone named Cerys Wilson. There are also reviews from Dfdanse and Dance News Montreal. If you’d like to hear Fuel by Julia Wolfe click on this link. If you’d like to hear Mad Rush by Philip Glass, click on this link. Unfortunately I do not have the playlist for Harry.

The Ballets Jazz de Montreal’s calendar is here. (From my quick scan, they were last here in January 2011 and I don’t know when before that as it doesn’t go further back than 2008. Their blurbs on Fuel and Harry are here and here. It appears that whomever is responsible for their website doesn’t consider Closer as being in their repertoire.

I initially wanted to list off all the dancer’s names (for what would the performance be without the dancers?) But for the most part, they don’t have individual websites and I no longer have my list of who danced in what. So I’m going to have to settle for a simple list copy/pasted from Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal’s website. Antonios Bougiouris, Morgane Le Tiec, Céline Cassone, Alexander Hille, Christina Bodie, James Gregg, Kevin Delaney, Christian Denice, Youri De Wilde, Alyssa Desmarais, Brett Taylor, Alexandra Gherchman, Andie Masazza. They all were very good. (But what I don’t understand is how they can all simultaneously also be former dancers from Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal. It doesn’tmake sense to me at all).

And lastly the background music during my piece is from Jazz Friends 2012

Published: November 2nd, 2012
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Seen on Saint Denis, x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser

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Saw this yesterday in thre alleyway that leads to the library, near the corner of Emory. It’s part of the FTA and called x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser and is exactly what it looks like. Obviously this was a dress rehearsal because they are really supposed to perform today at 6:00 pm and then on May 25 at 6:00 pm, May 26 at 3:00 pm and May 27 at 3:00 pm, for an hour each day.

x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser at the Festival TransAmériques

x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser at the Festival TransAmériques

x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser at the Festival TransAmériques

x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser at the Festival TransAmériques

x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser at the Festival TransAmériques

x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser at the Festival TransAmériques

x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser at the Festival TransAmériques

x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser at the Festival TransAmériques

x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser at the Festival TransAmériques

x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser at the Festival TransAmériques

x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser at the Festival TransAmériques

x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser at the Festival TransAmériques

x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser at the Festival TransAmériques

x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser at the Festival TransAmériques

x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser at the Festival TransAmériques

x-mal Mensch Stuhl by Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser at the Festival TransAmériques

Published: May 24th, 2012
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Montreal Completement Cirque – Chute Libre

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Last week I was invited to the press conference for Montreal Completement Cirque. It was a grand affair and lots of fun. This is part six of what you can look forward to…

On July 7, 8 and 9 Chute Libre will present their show La Cuisine de Pan at Usine C. Tickets cost $20.25 to $41.25.

Published: May 15th, 2012
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