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BJMLes Ballets Jazz de Montréal

FUEL

North American Premiere: Halifax, NS, Canada, November 2011Length: 22 minutes

A production of BJM - Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal.

CLOSER

Length: 15 minutes

Intermission

HARRYChoreography Barak Marshall

Assistants to the choreographer Inbar Nemirovsky, Osnat Kelner

MusicTommy Dorsey, Taraf Ionel Budisteanu, Balkan Beat Box, The Andrews Sisters, Anatol Stefanet,

Dejan Petrovic, Sidney Bechet, Warsaw Village Band,The Hungarian Quartet, Goran Bregovic, Maria Callas, Wayne Newton

Lighting Daniel RangerCostumes Anne-Marie Veevaete

World premiere: July 2012, Montauban, France

Length: 40 minutes A production of BJM – Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, in coproduction with National Arts Center (Ottawa),

The Joyce Theater Foundation (New York), City of Montauban during Danse en PlaceS Festival,Segal Center for Performing Arts (Montreal).

Cover photo: BJM in Harry, photo by Gregory Batardon.

DanceHouse presents February 15 & 16, 2013

3DanceHouse Season Sponsors:

Choreographer Cayetano Soto

Assistant to the choreographer Mikiko Arai

Dramatist Nadja Kadel

Music Julia Wolfe

Lighting Design Cayetano Soto

Lighting Production Daniel Ranger

Costume Design Cayetano Soto

Costumes Production Anne-Marie Veevaete

Sound Design Antoine Bédard

Choreography Benjamin Millepied

Dancers Celine Cassone, Alexander Hille

Music Mad Rush by Philip Glass

Lighting Roderick Stewart Murray

Costumes Production UNTTLD

Simon Bélanger, José Manuel St-Jacques

BJM thanks theConsulate General ofIsrael in Montréal forits support


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WELCOMEWelcome to the third production of DanceHouse’s fifth anniversary season. Although it’s a

milestone we are proud of, we have a long way to go before we celebrate the 40 seasons that

BJM, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, celebrates this season. Please join us in congratulating our

colleagues at BJM on their remarkable longevity, creativity, and consistent excellence.

BJM is a true Canadian success story. From its roots in the 1970s in “jazz ballet”, the company

has embraced the wider genre of contemporary dance. With a strong foundation in ballet and an

openness to many influences, under former dancer Louis Robitaille (Artistic Director since 1998),

BJM continues with its signature dynamic, quick, and controlled style that you’ll see on stage

tonight. It’s a style that has brought them international acclaim and near-universal praise.

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A Note from Louis Robitaille – Artistic DirectorTwo events have had a decisive influence on my professional career: mydiscovery of Maurice Béjart’s Messe pour un temps présent and myencounter with Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal in 1972. Working for LesGrands Ballets Canadiens shaped my artistic itinerary. I have very fondmemories of the many inspiring and exceptional encounters I had there.Choreographers such as James Kudelka, Nacho Duato, Ji í Kylián, HansVan Manen or Edouard Lock inspired me to seek through perseverance andtrue effort the satisfaction of a job well done. The many people I’ve metalong the way, whether they were choreographers, managers or creators,

helped me articulate a personal approach to performance and dance which continues to guideme to this day. The projects I carried out afterwards with Bande-à-Part—which later becameDanse-Théâtre de Montréal—paved the way for new challenges and new responsibilities. Ilearned how to engender and uphold an artistic vision, while also managing resources.

The transition from dancing to directing the artistic activities of a company was one of the biggestchallenges I have had to face. While the dancer has to focus on his own career, the artistic directormust learn how to develop and nurture such qualities as empathy, respect and altruism.

Today, at BJM, I look to the future; continually repositioning the company, while also innovatingand acquiring new knowledge. Our raison d’être is to generate a unique encounter with the public.Through BJM, I want to embellish everyday life, bring happiness where it is most needed. Whenwe feel a certain magic at the end of a performance, I know that this kind of encounter has trulytaken place.

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About BJM – Les Ballets Jazz de MontréalAn internationally renowned contemporary dance company,BJM - Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal is a repertory companythat presents a hybrid form of dance that combines theaesthetics of classical ballet and embraces many otherdifferent styles of dance.

Founded in 1972 by Geneviève Salbaing, Eva von Gencsy,and Eddy Toussaint, the company has pursued its ownunique path over the decades. Very contemporary in its

current approach, BJM performances are sexy, explosive, original and accessible, and itssuperb dancers are widely acclaimed. The “jazz” in the name refers more to a “jazzing up”of classical ballet rather than a musical or dance style.

Since 1998, BJM has been under the masterly command of Artistic Director Louis Robitaille.His unerring flair for attracting talented choreographers and presenting high calibre dancepieces keeps raising the bar for his team of performers and stage professionals. Mr.Robitaille has presented works by internationally acclaimed choreographers such as MiaMichaels, Trey McIntyre, Patrick Delcroix, Rodrigo Pederneiras, Mauro Bigonzetti, AnnabelleLopez Ochoa, Cayetano Soto, and Barak Marshall. He is particularly interested in supportingand encouraging Canadian choreographers, composers, and designers. The work ofcelebrated Canadian choreographers such as Dominic Dumais, Crystal Pite, Aszure Barton,and more recently of Wen Wei Wang have enriched the BJM repertoire.

BJM is one of Canada’s most popular dance companies. It has presented more than 2,000performances in 65 countries to more than 2 million spectators, and is a veritableambassador of Quebec and Canadian culture worldwide.

Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, BJM has achieved a level of maturity and organi-zational stability while remaining open to the ever-evolving form that is contemporary dance.Its pieces are marked by dynamic physicality, virtuosity and the strong personalities of itsperformers, all of which contribute to the company’s unique signature. BJM has theremarkable ability to speak clearly to audiences through energetic presentations of strong,expressive and demanding dance.

Through its performances and educational activities, BJM reaches out to spectators inCanada and abroad, encouraging discovery, stimulating the imagination, making danceaccessible, and sharing its passion for the art form. The success of BJM is due to theparticular alchemy that allows each new work to become the fruit of a memorable encounterbetween the choreography, the dancers, and the audience.

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FUELIn his new choreography, Cayetano Soto is inspired byFuel, a piece for string orchestra by the Americancomposer Julia Wolfe who transforms the modernindustrial world of fuels and machines into clankingstring sounds. Soto transfers to human bodies this ideaof a single substance that keeps the world movingrestlessly: as if the dancers, too, were driven by onesecret energy. The choreography works with contrastsbetween dynamic, technically virtuous Pas de Deux andtrios on the one hand and static moments on the otherhand. In those moments of apparent slowdown thedancers are standing alone, but are unable to achieveany rest. Instead they perform little, nervous, jerkymovements as if they were being recharged. Thus theymay eventually be swept away again by the ado,returning to burn their energy - until the tank is empty.

CAYETANO SOTOCayetano Soto was born in Spain in 1975. He started his danceeducation in his hometown Barcelona at the Instituto del Teatro andcontinued his studies at the Royal Conservatorium in The Hague. Afterreceiving his degree, Cayetano Soto danced with IT Dansa inBarcelona before joining the Ballet Theater Munich a year later. Therehe created several successful ballets for the company.

Cayetano Soto has gone on to create Quotidiano for the FestivalInternazionale di Danza in Venice, Italy and 24FPS for the Royal Ballet

of Flanders which won the Hapag Lloyd prize in April 2006. His first full evening ballet wasa new A Midsummer Night’s Dream which was premiered in July 2006 in Lübeck and inNovember 2006 in Schwerin. In spring 2007 he created Dependent behaviour for the Balletof the Staatstheater Braunschweig and in July he was invited to make a piece at theNorthwest Pacific Dance Project in Portland, Oregon: Not yet was so successful that itimmediately entered the repertory of the company.

In fall 2007 his piece M/C about the relationship of Marilyn Monroe and Truman Capote waspremiered with the Royal Ballet of Flanders. In spring 2008 he created Two at a time, a pieceabout doubles, for Stuttgart ballet and in summer last but not least for the Northwest PacificDance Project. In July his new work Canela fina was premiered with the Ballet da Cidade inSao Paulo. This piece was co-produced with Liceu in Barcelona, where it had its Europeanpremiere in September 2008. In October he made a choreography with four dancers in thechurch of St. Egidien in Nürnberg, dancing Mozart’s mass in C-minor with live orchestra. In2009 he created Zero in on for Augsburg Ballet, staged his very first choreography Fugazin Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, staged M/C in Dortmund and created a new full evening versionof Carmen for Dortmund Ballet.

Due to the success in Dortmund, Brno in Czech Republic decided to stage his Carmen in2010. Soto’s first new creation in 2010 was Kiss me goodnight for Introdans in Arnhem,followed by a solo for first soloist of Bavarian State Ballet Munich Lisa-Maree Cullum whichwas created to present the new collection of the label Talbot Runhof at the fashion week inParis. In May 2010, for Companhia nacional de Bailado in Lisboa, he created Sacre duprintemps. Cayetano Soto is based in Munich.

Brett Taylor, Alexandra Gherchman,photo by Benjamin Von Wong

Photo by Jan Adamiak

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CLOSERSet to composer Philip Glass’s Mad Rush, the duet Closer was created in 2006 for CélineCassone and Sébastien Marcovici (principal dancer with the New York City Ballet) andpresented at the Maison de la Danse in Lyon, France. For BJM, the duet will be performed bythe magnetic Céline Cassone and Alexander Hille. Performed and acclaimed on several worldstages, Closer is a voluptuous and vibrant exchange, imbued with an intense yet simplesensuality, that of the tension between two bodies.

Over the course of twenty minutes, Céline is carried, pulled and lifted with movements ofcrystalline beauty and delicacy, rousing the sentiments of the audience, who are transportedinto the couple’s passionate relationship. Enhancing the work is a live performance of Glass’spiano piece, Mad Rush, reverberating throughout the hall, evoking the purity of the dancers’emotions.

This ballet benefits from the precious support of M. Uriel G. Luft

BENJAMIN MILLEPIEDBorn in Bordeaux in 1977, Benjamin Millepied began his dance trainingat the age of eight with his mother, a former modern dancer. From agethirteen to sixteen he attended the Conservatoire National de Lyon. Inthe summer of 1992, Millepied made his first appearance in New YorkCity, in a summer program at the School of American Ballet (SAB), theofficial school of New York City Ballet. The following year, he became afull-time student at the school, having received a Lavoisier scholarshipfrom the French Ministry of Culture. At SAB in 1994, Millepied originateda principal role in Jerome Robbins’ 2 & 3 Part Inventions. That same year,

he was awarded the Prix de Lausanne. In 1995, he received the Mae L. Wien Award forOutstanding Promise and was invited to become a member of New York City Ballet. He waspromoted to the rank of Principal Dancer in the spring of 2001. There he performed theprincipal roles in works by the celebrated Russian choreographer George Balanchine andDanish choreographer Peter Martins, as well as in pieces by Jerome Robbins, AngelinPreljocaj, Richard Tanner, Helgi Tomassion, Christopher Wheeldon and Merce Cunningham.In particular, he starred in Martins’ Concerti Armonici, Guide to Strange Places, HallelujahJunction, and Swan Lake, and Robbins’ Les Noces. For the 10th anniversary of the DiamondProject in 2002, he performed in Vespro by Italian choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti.

Benjamin Millepied made his choreographic debut in 2001 with Passages, created for theConservatoire National de Lyon. After a stint at the New York Choreographic Institute in March2002, his “Triple Duet” for Danses Concertantes was performed at Sadler’s Well by principaldancers of the New York City Ballet. In the spring of 2003 he made a dance film with OlivierSimola entitled Chaconne. In 2005 he created 28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini for SABand an original version of Casse-Noisette for the Grand Théâtre de Genève with set designsand costumes by artist Paul Cox. The duet Closer, with live piano music composed by PhilipGlass, was part of the Benjamin Millepied & Company season at the Joyce Theater in NewYork in 2006.

That same year, he created Capriccio for the American Ballet Theatre’s Studio Company andYears Later, a solo for Mikhail Baryshnikov, in collaboration with Olivier Simola. In 2004 and2005, Millepied directed the Morris Center Dance Workshop in Bridgehampton. From 2006 to2007, he was choreographer-in-residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. Sincethen, he has created works for such companies as the Paris Opera Ballet, the National Balletof Cuba and the American Ballet Theater. In 2010, Millepied choreographed and starred inDarren Aronofsky’s feature film Black Swan. That same year, he was named Chevalier of theOrder of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture. Most recently, in 2012, BenjaminMillepied announced the creation of LA Dance Project.

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HARRYFor this new creation, made-to-measure for the BJM dancers, theIsraeli-American choreographer BarakMarshall was inspired by the innerbattles we all wage. “Life is a constantstruggle,” he says, “in which we arecontinually faced with conflicts withregard to culture, gender, species.”Between men and women, in particular,compromises must be made to achievea balance. This piece revolves aroundthe character of Harry, who struggles toovercome forces both physical and existential. Teeming with energy, the work underscoresa recurrent theme in human interactions: conflicts and our ability to overcome them. Set toa score combining jazz, Israeli folksongs and traditional music, this new opus is imbuedwith hope and humour, alternating group sequences, trios and duets in a fabulous extrav-aganza of dance.

Dedicated in the memory of Marjorie and Gerald Bronfman, major partners of Les BalletsJazz de Montréal.Photo: Harry, performed by BJM, photo by Gregory Batardon

BARAK MARSHALLBorn and raised in Los Angeles, California, Barak is the son ofacclaimed dancer, choreographer and musician Margalit Oved. Barakfast established himself as one of Israeli dance’s most innovative andunique voices. His first work, Aunt Leah, won first prize in the Shadesof Dance Competition and his third work, Emma Goldman’s Wedding,represented Israel in the 1998 Bagnolet International Competitionwhere it won first prize, the Adami Award, the Bonnie Byrd Award forNew Choreography, and the Audience Award.

His company went on to tour extensively throughout Europe, including performances inBerlin, Lyon and Paris. In 1999, Barak was invited by Ohad Naharin to become the BatshevaDance Company’s first-ever house choreographer. Barak is also a singer and has performedas a soloist with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project, the Yuval Ron Ensemble, and the LosAngeles Jewish Symphony. Barak studied social theory and philosophy at HarvardUniversity. He is a guest lecturer at UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures. Barakrecently received the prestigious Creative Capital Grant for his new music production,Symphony of Tin Cans, with Margalit Oved and Balkan Beat Box. His work Monger waspremiered in October 2008 and toured throughout Israel, Europe, Asia, and the UnitedStates. His latest work, Rooster, premiered at the Israeli Opera House in November 2009.He presented Rooster in June 2011 at the Berlizo Opera House and Monger on July 2011at Campo Santo during the Estivales de Perpignan at the Montpellier Danse Festival 2011.Barak currently divides his time between Tel Aviv and Los Angeles.

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ABOUT THE DANCERS

Douglas Baum Douglas began dancing in Maryland USA at the Mid-Atlantic Center for the PerformingArts before going on to graduate from the Baltimore School for the Arts in 2006. In2010 Doug received his B.F.A from Fordham University in New York City in collabo-ration with the Ailey School. During his time in New York, Doug worked with choreog-raphers Darrell Grand Moultrie, Robert Battle, Sidra Bell, Nicolo Fonte, ChristopherHuggins and Larry Keigwin. He has participated at the Fire Island Dance Festival,Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Springboard Danse Montreal & NDT’s Maximum DanceCourse. In addition to performing with Zhukov Dance Theater, Doug has alsocompleted a season with Compagnie Flak under the direction of José Navas and aseason with Rasta Thomas’s company in 2012.

Christina BodieOriginally from Edmonton, Alberta, Christina studied in the professional division of theRoyal Winnipeg Ballet School. She later went on to study at The Juilliard School, fromwhich she graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. While at Juilliard, Christinaperformed the works of renowned choreographers such as Robert Battle, AszureBarton, Ohad Naharin, José Limón and Paul Taylor. Before joining BJM, Christinadanced for the prestigious Koresh Dance Company in Philadelphia. Christina has beena member of BJM since 2007.

Antonios BougiourisTony attended The Juilliard School inNew York City and received hisBachelors of Fine Arts. While at Juilliard,Anthony performed the works of RobertBattle, Ohad Naharin, Paul Taylor, DavidParsons, Hans Van Manen, AdamHougland, Eric Hampton, and JoseLimon. In April 2002, Anthony joined LesGrands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal.There, as a demi-soloist, he had theopportunity to perform soloist roles in theworks of world renowned choreog-raphers such as Jiri Kylian, Mats Ek, KimBrandstrup, Fernand Nault, Stinj Celis,Ohad Naharin, Shen Wei, MauroBigonzetti, Didi Veldman, and GeorgeBalanchine. In August 2008, Anthonyjoined Aterballetto in Reggio Emilia, Italywhere he worked with Mauro Bigonzettiand in July 2009 became a member ofBJM.

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Céline CassoneBorn in France, Céline began studying dance as a child at the Conservatoire Nationalde Danse d’Avignon. In 1993, she joined the Deutsch Oper Berlin for one year andthen, the following season, the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe for four years. Shethen enrolled in the Béjart Ballet Lausanne, under the direction of Maurice Béjart,where she performed many solo roles. It was also as a soloist that she joined, in 1999,the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève. Céline has had the opportunity to take part inmany innovative contemporary productions while also working with internationallyrenowned choreographers. She performed in several international galas and was therecipient, in 2006, of the Étoile de Ballet 2000 dance award and in 2010, she receivedthe Premio Asti Danza dance award. Deciding to acquire the freedom to accept avariety of new challenges, Céline became an independent artist in 2008. She was partof Morphoses, Christopher Wheeldon’s company, and she worked with choreographerBenjamin Millepied. She joined BJM in 2008 as a dancer and, since 2009, is also thecompany’s Artistic Coordinator.

Christian DeniceChristian Denice received his dance training at Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts inThousand Oaks, California. His film credits include A Time for Dancing, Disney’s HighSchool Musical 2, and MTV’s The American Mall. Christian has danced for OdysseyDance Theater in Salt Lake City, UT, and then for River North Dance Chicago inChicago, IL under the direction of Frank Chaves where he has performed originalworks by renowned choreographers including Sidra Bell, Robert Battle, Lauri Stallings,and Sherry Zunker, as well as having the opportunity to co-choreograph the work forthe company in 2011. Christian has the privilege of teaching and choreographingthroughout the country, most recently setting an original work on Odyssey DanceTheater at the beginning of the year. Christian was named one of the top ten maledancers of 2010 by Time Out Chicago and received recognition as a notable Chicagodancer of 2010 by the Chicago Tribune. In the past year, Christian has danced forCompany E in Washington, DC, Greensboro Ballet in Greensboro, North Carolina, andMontgomery Ballet in Montgomery, Alabama. Christian began working with BJM in2012.

Kevin DelaneyKevin started dancing at the age of seven at the Larkin School of Dance in Minnesota.In 2004, he joined Odyssey Dance Theatre performing works by Mia Michaels, LizImperio, and Dee Caspary. Kevin then moved on to join Company C ContemporaryBallet in 2005 having the opportunity to perform works by luminaries such as TwylaTharp, Paul Taylor, Antony Tudor, and Amy Seiwert. Kevin has been a dancer for BJMsince 2010.


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Alyssa DesmaraisBorn in Cowansville, Quebec, Alyssa left home at the age of 12 to study dance at theÉcole supérieure de ballet contemporain de Montréal. This five-year training allowedher to enroll in the Jeune Ballet du Québec in 2006. This company gave her theopportunity to work with renowned choreographers such as Mario Radacovsky,Hélène Blackburn and Shawn Hounsell, as well as taking part in international tours.Her three years with the Jeune Ballet du Québec enabled her also to acquire vastamounts of experience as well as completing her contemporary dance training. Alyssajoined BJM in 2009.

Youri de WildeQuébec native Youri began his training as a classical ballet dancer at the age of nineat the École Supérieure de Danse de Québec. In 1993, he joined Le Jeune Ballet duQuébec and, the following season, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. He was invited byDancEast, in New Brunswick, to perform in its production of The Nutcracker and hasdanced in several Opéra de Montréal productions, as well as in a creation by BenjaminHatcher presented at Tangente before joining BJM in 1998.

Alexandra GherchmanAlexandra was born in Russia and moved to Israel when she was 11 years old, whereshe started her dance training at the Ballet School Bat-Dor. In 2000, Gherchmanmoved to the United States and performed with MOMIX, Notario Dance Company,Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Koresh Dance Company and Ballet Hispanico. She hadprivilege of working with choreographers such as Donald Byrd, Milton Myers, RobertBattle, Itzik Galili and Graciela Daniele. Alexandra joined BJM in 2009.

Alexander HilleBorn in Minnesota, Alexander Hille began dancing at the age of eight. Upon graduatingfrom the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists in 2007, he was accepted tothe Juilliard School in New York City. While attending Juilliard (graduated 2011),Alexander was privileged to learn the works of some of the most innovative andprominent figures in dance, including: José Limon, Merce Cunningham, Ohad Naharin,Mark Morris, Larry Keigwin, Stijn Celis, Darell Grand Moultrie, Benjamin Millipied,Bronislava Najinska, and Eliot Feld (Alexander was the recipient of the Paul TaylorScholarship in 2011). In 2009 he was thrilled to be selected to travel to Europe withJuilliard for the inaugural Juilliard European tour, with performances at the Théatre deCaen, the Glass Factory, and le Conservatoire de Paris. He has spent summersworking to expand his artistic horizons, by training at the Juilliard School, SpringboardDanse Montréal, and Move in Nederlands Dans Theater. Throughout his time at thesevarious programs he learned the repertory of Aszure Barton, Anabelle Lopez Ochoa,Crystal Pite, Jiri Kylian, and Paul Lightfoot & Sol Leon. Alex has worked independently,guest performing in Minnesota Dance Theaters Nutcracker Fantasy, performing for theGreenwich Music festival in La Dame a la Licorne, and also at the Louis Vuitton on 5th

avenue for New York’s Fashion’s Night out. Alexander joined Les Ballets Jazz deMontréal in the Spring of 2011.


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Morgane Le TiecBorn in France in 1986, Morgane began her dance training at age five at the Conser-vatoire de Saint-Maur. She continued her studies from 1995 to 1998, and the followingyear entered the École de Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris and the Conservatoire du 8earrondissement. In 1999, she was accepted at the Conservatoire nationale supérieurde musique et de danse in Paris, from which she graduated in 2004. Morganeperformed in Alexandre Bourdat’s Ainsi-soient-elle, Loïc Perela’s 23h59, JaniaBatista’s Sanctus and choregraphed 4:50 dream. In January 2008, she danced withthe Lyon Ballet and appeared in a work by Marc Ribaud. From December 2008 to May2009, she danced with La La La Human Steps in Édouard Lock’s production of Amjad.She worked with the Montalvo/Hervieu troupe before joining BJM in the spring of 2011.

Andie MasazzaBorn in Paris, Andie studied dance at the Académie de Danse Classique in Rambouilletwith Monique Le Dilly. She continued her training at the CNR and CNSM in Paris andreceived her diploma in 2009. Before joining BJM in 2010, Andie danced for theMontgomery Ballet and the Ballet de Lorraine where she worked alongside renownedchoreographers Thierry Malandain, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Jose Martinez andStephen Petronio. Andie joined BJM in 2010.

Brett TaylorBorn and raised in Saskatchewan, Brett started his training in Regina at the age ofseven. After graduating from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School in 2007, Brett had theopportunity to participate in an exchange with the New Zealand School of Dance andperform in the Banff Dance Festival. Brett went on to guest perform with Ballet BritishColumbia and joined the Royal Winnipeg Ballet as an apprentice for their 2008/2009season. Brett joined BJM in 2009.

Guillaume MichaudBorn in Quebec, intern Guillaume Michaud started dancing at the age of six. He hasreceived training in many dance styles, including hip-hop, contemporary, social dance,and jazz. While pursuing studies at the École supérieur de Ballet of Québec, Michaudhas appeared on television and worked at Just for Laughs and Cirque du Soleil.Guillaume joined the company in 2013.


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CARTE BLANCHEBergen, NorwayCorps de Walk

Friday, March 22, 8pmSaturday, March 23, 8pm

Carte Blanche was established in 1989in Bergen, Norway, to perform work bysome of the best and most celebratedNorwegian and international choreog-

raphers, with a strong emphasis on commissioned work from a new generation of contem-porary dance-makers. The combination of the up-and-coming and the renowned results inan eclectic, exciting, and high-quality company at the forefront of the development of dance,both in Norway and abroad.

Corps de Walk is a new piece by Israeli choreographers Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar. With aunique and personal language, the pair toy with the erotic, androgynous and sometimesthe grotesque emotions in their choreography. In addition to dancing with the company,Eyal has been associate artistic director and house choreographer for Batsheva Dance.

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Anita Seiz Director

Denis Walz Director

STAFF

Jim Smith Producer

Emma Lancaster Associate Producer

Bernard Sauvé Associate Producer

Barb Clausen Community Engagement

Sharon Simpson Guest Services

Bonnie Sun Special Events

Beverly Walker Artist Services

Josef Chung Technical Director

Barb Clausen & Jim Smith Founding

ProducersDanceHouse is produced by Seismic Shift Arts Society,a registered not-for-profit society Registered Charitable number: 86128 4255 RR001

Founder EmeritusGeneviève Salbaing

CofoundersEva Von Gencsy

Eddy Toussaint

Artistic DirectorLouis Robitaille

Executive DirectorJay Rankin

ArtistsDouglas Baum

Christina Bodie

Antonios Bougiouris

Céline Cassone

Christian Denice

Youri de Wilde

Kevin Delaney

Alyssa Desmarais

Alexandra Gherchman

Alexander Hille

Morgane Le Tiec

Andie Masazza

Brett Taylor

InternGuillaume Michaud

Ballet and Rehearsal MistressLisa Davies

PRODUCTION TEAM

Production and Tour ManagerDaniel Ranger

Stage ManagerOswald Foisy

CarpenterHervé Holdrinet

Sound and Video TechnicianPhilippe Hébert

AGENTS

Asia - CanadaAgence Station Bleue

Élisabeth Comtois

Tel. : 514 273-3093

[email protected]

Latin AmericaMaria Rita Stumpf

TQ Producciones

Tél. : +55 21 2509 3859

[email protected]

EuropeThierry Duclos

Le Trait D’Union

Tél. : +33 (0)5 45 94 75 95

[email protected]

United StatesRachel Cohen

Cadence Arts Network Inc.

Tél. : 310-838-0849

[email protected]

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the ongoing support of:

BJM recognizes the

important contribution of the

Marjorie and Gerald

Bronfman Foundation for their

support in the development

of new works.

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NEIGHBOURHOOD OF FRIENDSDanceHouse is grateful to the following donors for their annual support.

To donate to DanceHouse, please contact Bernard Sauvé at 604.801.6225, [email protected], or visit www.dancehouse.ca/donate

Season Sponsors

PRODUCERS’ HOUSEDanceHouse gratefully acknowledges the support of the following individuals and foundations for their leadership gifts andoutstanding support of DanceHouse and thanks them for their ongoing commitment to dance in Vancouver.

For more information about moving into the Producers’ House, please contact Bernard Sauvé at 604.801.6225 [email protected]

CORPORATE AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

If you or your company is interested in

the benefits of corporate partnership, please contact

[email protected]

Government

Production Sponsor

Corporate Friends

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Rare Design

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Community Partners

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PUBLISHER Michael Hayes

Platinum Room($25,000+)Anndraya T. Luui

Diamond Room($10,000–$24,999)Hawthorne Charitable

Foundation

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Wilson

Silver Room($2,500–$4,999)Robert Laing & Ed Wilson

Dr. Thomas Pullano & BradWaites

Bronze Room($1,000–$2,499)Barb ClausenJean ConwayPeter DickinsonMelanie Ferrandi

Jean OrrSabine RouquesBrian RowlandBernard SauvéDon & Jane ShumkaJim SmithNardia StrydomDenis Walz

House($500–$999)Susan AdamsIlze Bebris & Bruce CurryJane FernyhoughLaurie Guy-SharpLiesl JaukLeanne LimAnita SeizJason Wrobleski

Condo($250–$499)Catherine & Ian AikenheadDeena Chochinov & Eric

PosenBill Ehrcke & Donna WelsteinJanet Ericksen

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memory of Nigel MooreAlice NiwinskiJoanne Rankin & James

BurtonMaria C. RobinsonAmy SeversonDr. Jean WarburtonEric Wilson

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