Friday, June 11, 2010

Episode 65: The Second First Annual Movement Museum-Fringe Festival Open House

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Our show from June 10, 2010
(Download: MP3 74MB, Flac 330MB, Ogg Vorbis 46MB or Stream)

Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth Burns and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show we have our Second First Annual Movement Museum-Fringe Festival Open House with Tanya Elchuk & Amy Crnkovic from Heart-Strings, Isaac Kessler from 2-Man No-Show, Sasha Kleinplatz from Piss in the Pool, Yanomi from SHOSHINZ presents: A Day in the Life of Miss Hiccup, Brianna Stark from Aurelia and Imago and Allison Elizabeth Burns does double duty as co-host and representative for Inertia Productions' The Duck Wife.

The theme song is the Danny Davis and the Boys' version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is Vaudeville Dancer by Carl Sandburg, and the music played during the show is Dawning Luminosity by Viosac.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns, Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Canadian Dance History 101: Jeanne Robinson

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A very nice obituary for Ms. Robinson who died on May 30.

Canadian Dance History 101: Kay Armstrong

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Over at Cecchetti International Classical Ballet they have a very nicely written bio of Kay Armstrong, one of the first Canadian Choreographers. The best bit?
...Le Réve Fantasque, her first ballet set to a commissioned score. The music was written by Dolores Claman, who penned the Hockey Night in Canada theme...

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Pictures of the Grand Continentale

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Some really nice photos of Sylvain Emard's part in this year's FTA.

Canadian Dance Assembly's Annual General Meeting

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The Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Dance Assembly can be heard right here at 5:30 today, or they say, afterwards if you're busy. If you'd like to read their Strategic Plan before (during or after) it is available here [pdf alert].

Piss in the Pool Preview

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Blake McGrath on Canada AM

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Copying from the website: So You Think You Can Dance Canada judge and choreographer chats about his move to music.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Pictures of Young Dancers

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I'm not quite certain what to make of this one. A lot of pictures of the students at L'École de danse de Québec, but nary a mention of who or what and a touch too much emphasis on the corporeal, from my perspective.

Guillaume Côté makes for good headline

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The Ottawa Citizen profiles Guillaume Côté as a means of hyping the Canada Dance Festival that's happening there, now.

Like a dog with a bone

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Le danseur ne pèse pas lourd dans la balance could be loosely translated into English as Give the Dancers Some Credit, Please. Yesterday, once again, she pointed out a whole whack of people who might not have otherwise have been mentioned.

Friday, June 4, 2010

Movement Museum Episode 64: Sylvie Frigon

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Our show from June 3, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth Burns and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show we talk with Sylvie Frigon author of Chairs incarcérées, une exploration de la danse en prison with Claire Jenny about Dance in Prison, and two paragraphs of Gregory 'Krypto' Selinger's A Piece of my Heart Breaking are played.

The theme song is the Hurriganes' version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is The Dance by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and the music played during the show is by The Arboreal Quartet.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns, Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Thursday, June 3, 2010

José Navas having fun in Venice

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It appears that this here blog is becoming all-José-Navas-all-the-time...

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

José Navas by Valérie E.-Cloutier trois fois

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Valérie E.-Cloutier, who it appears writes about Venezuelan culture in Montreal has written a tri-lingual post on José Navas (English, français, español).

Win $3,000 and a trip to London!

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It was so successful the first time, they're doing it again. Sadler's Wells Global Dance Contest 2010. All instructions can be found here.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Monday, May 31, 2010

Bad news from the Art Gallery of Ontario

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According to this press release (the original here), and this breathless website, there will be ballet in the museum this summer. Ugh.

Why can't they just leave well enough alone? If something is significant enough to be shown in a museum, why can't they just show it? Why do they now need to add extra stuff? If the painting sucks, now amount of ballet (or music, or theater) is going to make it good. On the other hand if the painting is good, then the ballet (or music, or theater) is just going to take away from it by causing people not to be able to focus their full attention on it.

Dance Dance Revolution for the Navy

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An interesting method on how to get new recruits in shape.

Dame Margot Fonteyn tried to overthhrow the Panamanian Governement

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Prima Ballerina and spies, Wicked Cool!!

Friday, May 28, 2010

Nice Juxtaposition Judith Mackrell & Catherine Viau

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One English, one French. One focusing on one topic, one attempting to look at the bigger picture. But both commenting on the changing world of dance.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Movement Museum Episode 63: Stu McIntyre, Imbroglio, Mihaela Coman

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Our show from May 27, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth Burns and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show we talk with Stu McIntyre of Imbroglio about creating and performing dance for the street vs. for the stage and Imbroglio's upcoming productions of Cheyen and Oppo for the Montreal Fringe Festival, and Mihaela Coman of dancethisweek.com and mihaelaonline.com about Belly Dancing and Social Networking.

The theme song is the Raimundos' version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is Pannyra of the Golden Heel by Albert Samain, translated by James Elroy Flecker, and the music played during the show is Jacky Terrasson's Push.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns, Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

La Prière, Liens et lieux III, danse contemporaine marginale au Théâtre du Gesù

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The American Tap Dance Day vs. The Japanese Tap Dance Day

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Yesterday was American Tap Dance Day, back in April the Japanese celebrated Tap Dance Day over an entire weekend in April. In the United States it is celebrated on Bill “Bojangles” Robinson's birthday. I do not know the significance of the dates for the Japanese celebration.

I think we should nominate August 25 as The Canadian Tap Dance Day.

On Becoming a Dance Critic

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I didn't plan to be a critic. Even though I'd spent years hanging around dance studios, learning everything from ballet to contemporary to tai chi, I was set on a career in academia; my subject was English literature, not dance. So when a string of circumstances led me to write my first dance reviews, my models weren't professional critics. Most of the writers I knew and loved best were novelists: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and John Updike.

None of them could offer guidance when it came to describing a perfect pirouette, but they were ideal masters to learn from. Two marks of a great novelist are the ability to observe human behaviour and the ability to judge the exact words that make those observations ring true. Both skills are also essential for dance critics, who have to capture the combination of movement, music, design and human personality that make a work unique.

When I started reading dance reviews, the first writers I went to were American. There was a practical reason: Edwin Denby, Arlene Croce and Deborah Jowitt had collections of their reviews published in book form and, pre-internet, it was much harder to study the British newspaper critics.

But there was also something inspirational about the best of the American writing. It had a novelist's sharpness of language and gaze, and almost never resorted to cliche. I remember reading the Denby collection in one sitting and marveling at his exactness. Take, for instance, this description of the ballerina in Balanchine's Concerto Barocco, as she is lowered slowly to the floor at the climax of a pas de deux: "She rests her foot on a single sharp point and pauses. It is the effect . . . of a deliberate and powerful plunge into a wound." In this unsettling image, Denby managed to concentrate everything he saw and felt. In the daily routine of being a critic – rushing to meet a deadline, wondering how to cram it all into 400 words – it's good to remember how high the critical bar has been set.
- Judith Mackrell
From this article in The Guardian.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Zab Maboungou getting good press all over the place

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First there was Bettina Forget's review. Then I came across this article in the New York Times. Then I read this interview (where I learned that Zab Maboungou is a Y-chromosome challenged person).

I think we might have to try to get her to come on the air for an interview.

A slight scheduling conflict

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I just discovered that Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival is happening in between June 3 and 6 this year. There are a bunch of Montreal dancers going down there; The Choreographers, Laurel Koop, Floating Seed and Virtuo Danse. Unfortunately I won't be able to make it because of this, this and this.

James Kudelka in Czech and English

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James Kudelka gets interviewed in Czech (and they also translate it into English for folk like me).

Luc Vanier, ex-Montreal dancer doing good elsewhere

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Next month in Milwaukee they are going to be performing something called Divas, Dudes and Dancers. But what caught my eye was the line, "Originally from Montreal."

So I dug a little deeper and came up with these bits of information; he currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he used to dance with the Ohio Ballet, and might have been one of the victims of the controversy that surrounded them ten years ago. Now it appears that he does stuff with Your Mother Dances.

I wonder if he ever makes it back home?

Monday, May 24, 2010

The Duck Wife on Kickstarter

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As of this writing The Duck Wife had raised more than 80% of their goal on Kickstarter. For those of you that don't know, one of the co-hosts of Movement Museum, Allison Elizabeth Burns is heavily involved in The Duck Wife.

If you have some excess cash, give it to them, and help them get to Edmonton.

Catherine Viau got annoyed things changed

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On Friday, Catherine Viau wrote on her blog about how O Vertigo 'forgot' to credit their dancers, and then went out of her way to name them and link to their bios. On Sunday at about noon, Robert Meilleur commented that according to him things had been fixed. Wikced Cool!

Danse Lucile Danse!!!

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A very nice gif from kick-ass cartoonist, Julie Delporte. (If you click on it, it should move...)

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Movement Museum Episode 62: Clothilde Cardinal, Pierre Des Marais, Danse-Danse

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Our show from May 20, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth Burns and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show we talk with the Clothilde Cardinal and Pierre Des Marais the co-directors of Danse-Danse about their 2010/2011 season and their fund-raising campaign.

The theme song is Sonny & Cher's version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is Isadora Duncan by Carl Sandburg, and the music played during the show is from The Arboreal Quartet.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns, Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Nico Archambault, Naomi Stikeman, Marie-Ève Quilicot

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A very nice article from Saturday's Le Devoir by Catherine Lalonde on the incredible variety of professional dancers and dancing opportunities in Quebec and what Nico Archambault, Naomi Stikeman, and Marie-Ève Quilicot think about the situation.

Catching up with Blueprint Dance

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While we don't give a lot of coverage to the various 'reality' dance shows (not watching TV might have a little to do with it) we don't completely ignore them either. Blueprint deserves some serious props. I'm just flabbergasted that they come from the West Island!

Toronto's National Ballet School celebrates International Dance Day

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Apparently it is a law in Toronto that if you go to the mall you absolutely must bring your video camera with you. Back at the end of April, the National Ballet School over there decided that they were going to organize something they call a Flash Mob (I would strongly disagree with their definition, but I digress) to do a dance in public at the Eaton Centre in order to raise public awareness about International Dance Day. Cool enough, if not terribly original, but what elevates this particular event, is that if you go trolling for it on YouTube, there are nine (9) completely different videos of the same thing. Talk about gaining a different perspective!!

The Official We Want this to be Viral Video done by the National Ballet School


chyrells' video of the rehearsal


SimTripps Video


Evvve91's Video


yadosoara's video


awaismonkey's video


HumanArchive's Video


aliciajones1569's video


mailme408's video


And I might have missed a couple as well, but there is only so much Feist I can take in one day.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

OK, we're a tad slow. Swinging makes it into L'actualité, two weeks ago

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A short article by Ulysse Bergeron, but what makes it extremely useful is the guide to schools, clubs and etc.

Occasionally we reprint a press release, but very very rarely

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But books on the history of ballet here in Canada need all the marketing help they can get... So if you have the time to spare to read 300 pages, Norma Sue Fisher-Stitt has written The Ballet Class: A History of Canada’s National Ballet School 1959 – 2009. Read the press release here.

Myriam Allard first to Vancouver and then to Mexico

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When we last caught up with Myriam Allard she was performing El12. Now it appears she performed in "Mis Hermanas" Thicker Than Water: My Sisters and I in Vancouver last week in preparation for performing it in a tour of Mexico later in the year.

Monday, May 17, 2010

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Entr'acte, Marie Chouinard

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Yesterday Marie Chouinard's bODY_rEMIX/ gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS got reviewed in London's Guardian. Some of the better lines: "The result resembles a swingers' party in a surgical appliance store, hosted by a DJ with late-stage Parkinson's disease." And "part proxy-exhibitionism."

Entr'acte, Dave St-Pierre

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Looks like I'm going to have to catch the re-run. Dave St-Pierre was on Tout le monde en parle last Friday, and I missed it.

Entr'acte, Margie Gillis (again)

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And she was on Christiane Charette back on the 5th of May. Click here to hear it.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Entr'acte, Margie Gillis

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Over at Suites Culturelles, they give a fairly detailed description of Thread.

Entr'acte, Mihaela Coman

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Il fait beau dans le Metro... although to be completely honest, Mihaela Coman dances anywhere, not only the metro.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Movement Museum Episode 61: Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Toronto Dance Theatre, « WE ARE ROBOTS », Margie Gillis

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Our show from May 13, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth Burns and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show we review Les Grands Ballets Canadiens' Minus One, Toronto Dance Theatre's Dis/(sol/ve)r, « WE ARE ROBOTS » and Margie Gillis' Filature / Thread.

The theme song is Attaque 77's version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is Tarantella by D.H. Lawrence, and the music played during the show is from Geordie McDonald's Time/After Time.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns, Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Entr'acte, Canadian Dancers at Expo 2010 in Shanghai

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In case you were interested, the Canadian Dancers at Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Red Sky from Toronto, Move the company from Vancouver, and Damelahamid from West Vancouver.

Entr'acte, Canadian Heritage Funding of $87,000 per year for two years

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I came across this press release touting how generous James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages was. In a nutshell he's giving $87,000 per year for the next two years to New Dance Horizons in Regina.

Remind me if I am ever find myself in a tight situation to hit him up first.

Entr'acte, Alouette Cheerleader: Valérie Bisaillon

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Football season must be starting soon, Valérie Bisaillon one of the Alouette Cheerleaders gets profiled in L'Avenir de l'Est.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Entr'acte, Mao's Last Dancer

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The Mark adds to the hype for Mao's Last Dancer.

Entr'acte, Les 7 Doigts De La Main

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Les 7 Doigts De La Main made it into last weekend's Guardian as a Dance Pick of the Week.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Movement Museum Episode 60: Margie Gillis

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Our show from May 6, 2010
Download: MP3 78MB, Flac 615MB, Ogg Vorbis 45MB or Stream)

Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth Burns and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show we talk with Margie Gillis about her latest performance Filatures / Thread.

The theme song is the Kim Carnes' version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is The Window by Leonard Cohen, and the music played during the show is from The Arboreal Quartet.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns, Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Entr'acte, Rashaad Newsome

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"FIVE" live at the Whitney Museum of American Art March 19th 2010 from RASHAAD NEWSOME on Vimeo.


(via) More about Rashaad Newsome is available here and here.

Entr'acte, OFF.T.A Preview

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Read all about the upcoming OFF.T.A here.

Friday, April 30, 2010

Entr'acte, More on the Marie Chouinard talk

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Bettina writes in depth, detail and well about the Marie Chouinard talk at the Grande Bibliotheque earlier this week.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Movement Museum Episode 59: International Dance Day, La Otra Orilla, Wen Wei Dance, Marie Chouinard, Pas de Danse Pas de Vie

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Our show from April 29, 2010 - International Dance Day.
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth Burns and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show we review La Otra Orilla's El12 and Wen Wei Dance's Cock-Pit, have a round table discussion about upcoming Festival TransAmériques shows, Les Grands Ballets Candiens' Minus One, briefly report on the talk that Marie Chouinard gave on her personal library and sources of inspiration at the Grande Bibliotheque and the book sale at the Bibliothèque de la danse Vincent-Warren along with discussing some of the events taking place in Montreal as part of International Dance Day / Pas de Danse Pas de Vie.

The theme song is the Laurent Voulzy's version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is The Dance by William Carlos Williams, and the music played during the show is from Jean Luc Fillon's On the Reed Again.



Allison Elizabeth Burns, Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Entr'acte: Twitter Community Choreography

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Twitter Community Choreography #21, draft 2

Entr'acte: News

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Robert Battle to Become Alvin Ailey Artistic Director via the NYTimes.com

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Entr'acte: Film

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Tacita Dean's Craneway Event, written up in The Guardian.

Entr'acte: Pictures

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Jordan Matter's Dancers Among Us series.













Michael Trusnovec, pictures by Jordan Matter

Monday, April 26, 2010

Entr'acte: Film

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La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet and the review from The Guardian.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Entr'acte: Film

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Breath Made Visible, and the review from the New York Times.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Episode 58: Wen Wei Dance, Wen Wei Wang, Alison Denham

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Our show from April 22, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth Burns and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show Wen Wei Wang and Alison Denham from Wen Wei Dance are interviewed.

The theme song is the Sunny Boys' version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is Steps by Frank O'Hara, and the music played during the show is from Steve Kaldestad's Blow Up.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns, Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Episode 57: The All-Review Show II

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Our show from April 15, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth Burns and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show we review Les Grands Ballets Canadiens' Kylián Evening, En On (Yumiko Yoshioka, Lise Vigneault, Karen Sherman) and Primordial Vaudeville (Krin Haglund, Shannon Cochrane, La Zampa) from the Edgy Women Festival. Parabelo and Breu by Grupo Corpo.And Allison Elizabeth gives a report on the Mega Auction vs. Giant Dance Party fundraiser for Inertia Productions' The Duck Wife.

The theme song is the Sandy Nelson's version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is Having a coke with you by (and read by) Frank O'Hara, and the music played during the show is from Julia Kent's Delay and Drainolith's Organ Zone.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns, Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Episode 56: Myriam Allard, La Otra Orilla, Rebecca Halls, Julian Hughes

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Our show from April 8, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth Burns and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show Myriam Allard of La Otra Orilla talks about her latest show, El12. Rebecca Halls and Julian Hughes from ihoopu.com are interviewed about hooping and hooping culture.

The theme song is the Noble Surfers' version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is You are Gorgeous and I am Coming by Frank O'Hara and the music played during the show is from Star People by Miles Davis.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns, Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Episode 55: Vincent Warren, & La Zampa

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Our show from April 1, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth Burns and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show Vincent Warren, retired dancer and dance historian, and Magali Milian and Romuald Luydlin of La Zampa are interviewed.

The theme song is Ivan Katz's version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is Saint by Frank O'Hara and the music played during the show is from Your Body Is Your Prison by Tommy Babin's Benzene.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns, Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Episode 54: Marie-Pascale Lescot, Dabkeh

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Our show from March 25, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show Marie-Pascale Lescot director of Le mollet de la danseuse is interviewed, we review Living Room Dancers, AME, Mariinsky Theatre and How They Dance all of which are playing at the Festival International du Film sur l'Art, and Gretchen King's documentary on Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights dabke dance training.

The theme song is an anonymous YouTube boy's version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is Dance Piece by Ben Bellit and the music played during the show is from Chicago Goes West.

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Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Episode 53: Andrew Turner, Tawny Andersen, Le Mollet de la danseuse & Quarantaine

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Our show from March 18, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth Burns and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show we review Now I Got Worry by Andrew Turner & Uncanny Valley by Tawny Andersen along with film reviews of Le Mollet de la danseuse & Quarantaine, both of which are playing at the Festival International du Film sur l'Art.

The theme song is Cat Austin's version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is Shy Boy by Greg Sellers and the music played during the show is from Set by Evan Parker.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns, Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Episode 52: The All-Review Show.

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Our show from March 11, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth Burns and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show we review Meg Stuart's Do Animals Cry, La Sylphide by Guangzhou Ballet,  Splintergroup's Roadkill, Dominique Porte and Système D's Ulysse, nous et les sirènes, Bliss by Lise Vachon and CORPS.RELATIONS by Maria Kefirova.

The theme song is The Silver's version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is Caedmon by Denise Levertov and the music played during the show is from Treelines by the Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra, featuring Ingrid Jensen.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns, Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Episode 51; Site Dance by Melanie Kloetzel & Carolyn Pavlik; Marjorie Tallchief & José Greco

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Our show from March 4, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, host Allison Elizabeth Burns talks about dance in Montreal. In this showAllison Elizabeth reviews Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces by Melanie Kloetzel & Carolyn Pavlik. An interview from Camera Three with Marjorie Tallchief and Billie Mahoney talking with José Greco are also broadcast.

The theme song is Hayden Lasher's version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is The Dancer by David Tucker.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Episode 50: Mike Hughes, Rebecca Harper

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Our show from February 25, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth Burns and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show Mike Hughes and Rebecca Harper discuss the language of creation.

The theme song is Dave Edmunds' version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is The Best Slow Dancer by David Wagoner and the music played during the show is from Treelines by the Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra, featuring Ingrid Jensen.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns, Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Episode 49: Lucie Gregoire, Sophie Thibault, Emilie Morin, Le Retour du Temps

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Our show from February 18, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show Lucie Gregoire, Sophie Thibault and Emilie Morin talk about their upcoming performance of Le Retour du Temps.

The theme song is Los Gatos Negros version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is Casanova's Bossa Nova by Rich Murphy and the music played during the show is Earthsongs by Stephen Chatman.

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Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Episode 48:Dominique Porte, Splintergroup

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Our show from February 11, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Allison Elizabeth Burns and Bettina Forget talk about dance in Montreal. In this show Dominique Porte of Système D is interviewed about her most recent piece Ulysse, nous et les sirènes, Gavin Webber and Gabrielle Nankivel of Splintergroup are interviewed about their piece Roadkill.

The theme song is a Karaoke version of Do You Want to Dance, the dance poem of the week is Ballet 'in Flagrante' [the Modern Ballet Virgin] by Tony Jolley and the music played during the show are excerpts from Ulysse, nous et les sirènes and Roadkill.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns, Bettina Forget and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Episode 47: Erick Hawkins Centennial Celebration, Katie Ward, Jamie Gogarty

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Our show from February 4, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand and Allison Elizabeth Burns talk about dance in Montreal. In this show Jamie Gogarty talks about the Erick Hawkins Centennial Celebration that he went to in January and Katie Ward's Rock Steady is reviewed.

The theme song is sung by the Rolling Bidochons, the dance poem of the week is Dance Little Girl by C. Beale Fletcher and the music played during the show is from Night Chills by Catherine Meunier.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Episode 46: Alexander MacSween and Joseph Bembridge

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Our show from January 28, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand and Allison Elizabeth Burns talk about dance in Montreal. In this show the composer Alexander MacSween talks about making music for dance, Joseph Bembridge talks about rasabox training, and the entire show is interrupted my a very loud fire alarm.

The theme song is sung by Jennifer Hoyt, the dance poem of the week is Living Tools by Linda Staten and the music played during the show is the Kirk Macdonald Quintet's Songbook Vol. 1.

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Allison Elizabeth Burns and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Episode 45: Danièle Desnoyers, Le Carré des Lombes, Dévorer le Ciel, CoMotion Farm & Circuit Est

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Our show from January 21, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand and Allison Elizabeth Burns talk about dance in Montreal. In this show Zeke reviews Danièle Desnoyers's Le Carré des Lombes new show Dévorer le Ciel, Allison Elizabeth reflects on CoMotion Farm's Dance Week, and Part 1 from the Semaine Danse Musique les Paroles des Createurs which took place on the 11th of June, 2009 at Circuit Est with Marie Chouinard, Louis Dufort & Lucie Boissinot is played.

The theme song is sung by Die Puhdys, the dance poem of the week is Just to Dance by Linda Staten and the music played during the show is Interview by Amy Horvey.



Allison Elizabeth Burns and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Episode 44: Twitter Community Choreography, Multigraphers Group

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Our show from January 14, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand and Allison Elizabeth Burns talk about dance in Montreal. In this show we discuss Andrea Gunnlaugson's Legacy Repertory Project, and the difficulties inherent in archiving and preserving dance, Zeke reviews a performance from December by the Multigraphers Group, Zeke and Allison Elizabeth review Dance Theater Workshop's Twitter Community Choreography #1 and Twitter Community Choreography #16 and the last part of the Trisha Brown Interview is played.

The theme song is sung by Jun Sena, the dance poem of the week is The Bridge by Thé Bridge and the music played during the show is Dialoghi (Dialogues for Cello and Piano) by Elinor Frey and David Fung.



Allison Elizabeth Burns and Chris 'Zeke' Hand

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Episode 43: CoMotion Farm

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Our show from January 7, 2010
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Movement Museum a radio show broadcast Thursdays at 14h on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, co-hosts Chris 'Zeke' Hand and Allison Elizabeth Burns talk about dance in Montreal. In this show we hear Part 2 of a discussion between Isabelle Van Grimde, Dominique Porte and Danièle Desnoyers at Circuit Est from last June about music and dance, Part 5 of the Trisha Brown Interview and Amy Blackmore of Comotion Farm comes in studio to talk about Dance Week.

The theme song is sung by Alexandrine Roy, the dance poem of the week is Sunlit Morning by Mary Montague and the music played during the show is by Charlie Kohlhase's Explorers Club.



Allison Elizabeth Burns and Chris 'Zeke' Hand