Impulse 2011

Dancers from all three years of the Professional Training Program perform works by acclaimed choreographers Serge Bennathan, Marc Boivin, Julia Sasso, Roger Sinha, and Heidi Strauss.

• Doors are open at 7:30pm.
• All performances begin at 8:00pm.
• Tickets will be available for pick up at the box office after 7:15pm on the evening of your performance, under your last name.

Studio Roadmovie

(December 1, 2011)

Choreography: Marc Boivin
Rehearsal Assistant: Andrea Roberts
Music: from radio roadmovies by Christian Calon and Chantal Dumas (Redberry, Stampede, Yellowhead, Ouimet Canyon, Spirit Sands and Prairies); from the freest of radicals by K.M. Krebs (833-45, spook)
Sound Editing: Marc Boivin
Lighting Design: Gabriel Cropley
Costume Design: Jennifer Dallas
Dancers: Robyn Breen, Nicole Carr, Amber d’Entremont, Claudine Dubé, Joey Eddy, Mateo Galindo Torres, Christian Camilo Giraldo, Jessica Hall, Greg Harris, C. Alexander Harris-Mungo, Marie Lambin-Gagnon, Brittany LaRusic, Damian Norman, Turner Norman, Ann Trépanier, Mathieu Trépanier, Kathia Wittenborn, Michelle Zimmerman

Inspired by Christian Calon and Chantal Dumas soundscapes…

A road trip is a sensorial experience. Mornings, evenings, and afternoons. Solitude, solicitude, and mass gatherings. Intimacy. References left behind, borders crossed...the senses have free range, always a desire, and a risk.

Thanks to the first year class at LADMMI l’école de danse contemporaine who were part of some research that led to this creation. Also, Jennifer Dallas, Kate Alton, Kate Franklin, Kate Holden, Amélie Bédard, Daniel Bélanger, Isabelle Gagnon, Brice Noeser, Rob Abubo, Walter Kubanek, Gabriela Rehak, Koichi Yano, and Kassi Scott.

- MB

The Trilogy of Sable/Sand

(1997)

Excerpt from Part III: People* (1995)

Choreography: Serge Bennathan
Rehearsal Director: Julia Aplin
Music: Ahmed Hassan
Text: Salah Gaheen and Tarek Ghaleb
Singer: Maryem Hassan Tollar
Original: Lighting Design Borja Brown
Lighting Design: Gabriel Cropley
Costume Design: Nancy Bryant
Dancers:

December 1, 3, 9
Chantal Baudouin, Olivia Citter, Helen Cox, Neesha de Souza, Andrew Hartley, Jolyane Langlois, Sarah Reid, Anastasia Shivrina, Jarrett Siddall, Sam Xu, Angela (Ya Qing) Zhou

December 2, 10
Helen Cox, Jessie Garon, Andrew Hartley, Megumi Kokuba, Amanda, LaRusic, Lara Roberts, Jarrett Siddall, Kristine Van Kessel, Jelena Vujičić, Natalie Westerbeek, Sam Xu

December 8
Jessie Garon, Andrew Hartley, Megumi Kokuba, Amanda LaRusic, Sarah Reid, Lara Roberts, Jarrett Siddall, Kristine Van Kessel, Jelena Vujičić, Natalie Westerbeek, Sam Xu

Andrew Hartley and Sam Xu are 2011 graduates.

The choreographer dedicates the work: To my father In 1850, my great-great-grandparents were living in Tlemcem in the interior of Algeria. It was my grandparents who moved to Algiers where my father was born, in the district of St. Eugene to be precise.

I listened to my father talk about his youth in St. Eugene, Bab el Oued, The Casbah – all those mythical names. He also talked about the environment and the relation with the land, the water, and the people. As my father just passed away, Sable/Sand today is more than ever an homage to him and his culture, which is forever part of mine.

- SB

The School would like to thank Dancemakers for their support in the reconstruction of this work, and for the generous loan of the original costumes.
* In 1995 Part III: People was awarded a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Choreography

don't never

(December 1, 2011)

Choreography: Heidi Strauss
Rehearsal Assistant: Pam Wong
Music: Bernhard Fleischmann and Duo 505
Lighting Design: Gabriel Cropley
Costume Design: Jennifer Dallas

Dancers:

December 1, 3, 9
Robyn Breen, Joey Eddy, Mateo Galindo Torres, Jessica Hall, Greg Harris, C. Alexander Harris-Mungo, Brittany LaRusic, Turner Norman, Ann Trépanier

December 2, 8, 10
Nicole Carr, Amber d’Entremont, Claudine Dubé, Juana Galindo Torres, Christian Camilo Giraldo, Marie Lambin-Gagnon, Damian Norman, Mathieu Trépanier, Kathia Wittenborn, Michelle Zimmerman.

What does the moment call for? When is it okay to skip or drop out, to leave important things behind, to do something that seems wrong but feels right? In our process the dancers offered personal anecdotes related to this theme; the work was constructed with samples of their movement constructions and stories.

Special thank you to Marco Placencio, and Utility.

– HS

Déjà Vu

(December 1, 2011)

Choreography: Julia Sasso
Music: Set Fire to Flames
Lighting Design: Gabriel Cropley
Costume Design: Jennifer Dallas
Dancers: Matthew Cuff, Vanessa Faria, William Hamilton, Mathilde Jean-Pierre-Antoine, Léa Lavoie-Gauthier, Devon Lewis, Natalia Lisina, Colby McGovern, Miguel Perreault, Justin Poleon, Danah Rosales, Victoria Scanlon, Georgia Skinner, Darren Strong, Safia Suboohi, Andrew Varley, Dishank Vora, Melissa Watt, Stuart Wright

Déjà vu is the uncanny sense that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation. While there is often a firm sense that the experience has genuinely happened in the past, the phenomenon is most frequently attributed to a dream.

- JS

The Unbinding of Architecture

(December 1, 2011)

Choreography: Roger Sinha
Rehearsal Director: Patricia Miner
Music: Kimmo Pohjonen, Terry Riley, Bill Ryan
Sound Editing: Roger Sinha
Lighting Design: Gabriel Cropley
Costume Design: Jennifer Dallas
Dancers: Chantal Baudouin, Olivia Citter, Helen Cox, Neesha de Souza, Jessie Garon, Megumi Kokuba, Jolyane Langlois, Amanda LaRusic, Sarah Reid, Lara Roberts, Anastasia Shivrina, Jarrett Siddall, Kristine Van Kessel, Jelena Vujičić, Natalie Westerbeek, Angela (Ya Qing) Zhou

For the last few years I have been creating choreographic structures, then, with the help of my dancers, deconstructing the results through allowing choices by the dancers, as well as devising complex systems to reorganize the original phrasing. In a way, this is an extension of what I have been doing with Indian dance: taking elements that I know from Bharata Natyam and re-organizing them, mixing them with the modern forms I know, and turning a classical form into a contemporary one.

I would like to acknowledge the dancers’ participation in the creation of some of the dance vocabulary for this work. Thank you to Amelia Iverson and Sarah Leuschen for their contribution to the choreographic process.

– RS

Roger Sinha is the recipient of the second annual Kathryn Ash Choreographic Commission. The award is given in honour of the late Kathryn Ash, who was a tremendous friend to the School, serving on our Board for 18 years, and as President from 1995-2008. The award is given annually to a choreographer, ideally a graduate, selected to create a new work for our students.