Tag Archives: BJM Danse

Audio, Dance, Montréal, Performance, Podcast, Ramble

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.

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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

Audio, Conversation, Dance, Podcast, Review

Manon Oligny, BJM Danse, Pigeons International, Mayday Danse, Gabrielle Martin, Hi Wood,dumb type, Bouge D’ici

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Episode 262: [58:19]
(Download: MP3 71MB, Flac 579MB, Ogg Vorbis 38MB or Stream)

In this episode Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand, Bettina Forget and Jenn Doan talk about and review Icônes, À VENDRE by Manon Oligny, BJM Danse Montréal‘s Rossini Cards, Zero in On, & Zip Zap Zoom, Grace à Dieu, Ton Corps by Pigeons International, Junkyard Paradise by Mayday Danse, Infractions by Gabrielle Martin, True by Hi Wood and dumb type, and Bouge D’ici‘s Common Space.

The theme song of the week is a Japanese version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is Poet to a Ballerina by Robert Lowell, This Week in Dance History highlights Glen Tetley, and the music played during the show is from the CD Signature: Live from the Egg Farm by Masahiko Satoh, Joelle Leandre and Yuji Takahashi.

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Originally published on Movement Museum

Conversation, Dance, Dancer, Interview, Podcast

Eva Von Gencsy, Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, Jean-Marc Généreux, So You Think You Can Dance Canada,

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Episode 207: [58:08]
(Download: MP3 73MB, Flac 603MB, Ogg Vorbis 39MB or Stream)

In this episode Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand and Bettina Forget talk with Eva Von Gencsy, co-founder of Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal and Jean-Marc Généreux a judge on So You Think You Can Dance Canada.

The theme song is The Westwind Ensemble’s version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is Reminiscences of a Dancing Man by Thomas Hardy, and the music played during the show is by the Bersarin Quartett.

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Originally published on Movement Museum

Audio, Conversation, Dance, Podcast

Louis Robitaille, Jose Navas, Merce Cunningham, Robin Henderson

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Episode 86: [60:54](MP3 78MB, Flac 285MB, Ogg Vorbis 46MB, Stream)

In this episode Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand interviews Louis Robitaille, artistic director of BJM Danse and Jose Navas of Compagnie Flak about Merce Cunningham, Part two of five of the Robin Henderson interview is played and Rachel Ni Chuinn and Zeke discuss the Awesome Montreal Dance Calendar and upcoming auditions for dancers in Montreal.

Originally published on Movement Museum