Sarah-Ève Grant & Cirquantique

Dear Montréal,

This week J.D leads an interview with Sarah-Ève Grant, en Français. Sarah-Ève is the choreographer and performer of Dans le cercle, a contemporary dance piece being presented by Tangente next week in a double bill along side Isabelle Boulanger’s Fente toi!

Danse le cercle, photo credit: Maxime Pronovost

Next, Allison leads an interview with a pair of guests from Cirquantique’s production of Bang! Bang! We welcome in studio, co-producer and performer Esmeralda, along with another performer in the show, David Louch. Their production combines circus, burlesque, and by the sounds of it, a whole lot more.

Colonial, photo credit: Jerome Bonto

Before we say goodbye J.D. and Allison do a team review Colonial by Filipino-Canadian artist, Alvin Erasga Tolentino. The show played at the MAI last weekend.


Our show from NOVEMBER 1st, 2012
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Bye for now,

Allison Burns, J.D. Papillon and Karen Fennell

Adam Kinner & Roque review

Dear Montréal,

We spoke with the inspirational Adam Kinner today on Movement Museum.  Adam is a musician who has discovered dance and is running wild with this new passion of his.  He is currently working on his graduate degree at Concordia, he is participating in the Danses Buissonnières - Classe 2012 with his piece I’m faking it, and has plenty of other projects on the go.  He also shares with us a couple of his great music tracks.

We let the interview run long since Adam was such a pleasure to talk to, and then turned out attention to a team review/debate of Manuel Roque’s Ne meurs pas tout de suite, on nous regarde.  The show was presented at Tangente on the weekend of September 20th.  You can catch our interview with Manuel during our episode from that week.  Allison and J.D. have very different tastes in dance, and it’s always fun to discuss a show we’ve both seen!

Our show from OCTOBER 4th, 2012
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Until next week,

J.D. Papillon and Allison Burns

Manuel Roque & show reviews!

Dear Montréal,

This week we had a wonderful bilingual interview with Manuel Roque. Roque is the Choreographer and one of the performers in his new work Ne meurs pas tout de suite, on nous regarde.  Tangente and festival Quartier Danses are presenting the piece this week.

After the break Jenn reviews Josée Gagnon’s Entre flamme et fumée.  Josée was a guest on our August 23rd episode, and is a voice and movement artist who presented this work in a yoga studio.

Then Allison and Jenn review Raoul, a unique production by the grandson of Charlie Chaplin, James Thierrée.

To come full circle back to festival Quartiers Danses, J.D. reviews the ups and downs of the festival showcase, An evening with emerging artists.

Our show from SEPTEMBER 20th, 2012
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Take care,

Allison Burns, Jenn Doan, and J.D. Papillon

Dena Davida, Tangente & l'Atelier choréographic des Grands Ballets

Dear Montréal,

This week on Movement Museum we started with a show review.  Two weeks ago, on August 23rd we had Andrew Skeels from Les Grands Ballets de Montréal on to talk about the project À Suivre… l’Atelier choréographic des Grands Ballets Canadien de Montréal.  This project gives the company’s dancers an opportunity to choreograph their own work and present it in a showcase.  J.D. reports back on the show, and encourages us all to attend next year.

On to the future, Allison and J.D. offer up some interesting events and shows for Dance Calendar coming up this month.

In the second half hour of the show Dena Davida, Co-artistic and co-executive director of Tangente, joined us in studio.  We had a delightful interview with her about Tangente’s mandate, and it’s role in the lives of emerging and innovative artists.  We also get the scoop on their future plans to settle down in their very own space.

Our show from SEPTEMBER 6th, 2012
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Take care,

Allison Burns and J.D. Papillon

Muriva Dance, Muriva chats

Bonjour!

This week on the radio we have Gibson Muriva on to tell us about his show, Nyau.  Gibson runs the Muriva Dance Company here in Montreal. He teaches classes, dances and choreographs while blending, African, contemporary and classical dance forms into his own, unique style. Not only do we chat a bit about all of this, his creation process and his background, but Gibson also brought his thumb piano from Zimbabwe and plays a bit of music for us, live. The show he is presenting this week is a part of the Festival Vue sur la Relève.

Next, Allison reviews the triple bill, Yaado, Voodoo and Love, which was presented at Tangente in late February.  If you remember, we interviewed the artists who presented this trilogy of works, Nora Chipaumire and Souleymane Badolo, during our February 23rd episode.

Our show from APRIL 12th, 2012

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Until next week!

Allison Burns and Jenn Doan

inLayers, ranting & upcoming shows

Hello Montréal,

You may have noticed that Jenn took a bit of a break from the show a little while ago.  Well she was off to Calgary to produce and perform in a project called inLayers.  This week we take a moment to talk to Jenn about her experience with this social media influenced creation process designed to bring a new, wider audience to the art of contemporary dance.

Kati will be the next one to take a break, but she unloads some important dance industry news on us before she goes.  She gave us a sneak peek at the OFFTA line up (to be released in full on May 3rd).   She gives us more to be excited about when she divulges some names of the Danse Danse artists in residence for 2012/13.  Then we discuss everyone’s favorite topic, the federal budget’s treatment towards art and dance.  Kati lets us in on some facts, but you’ll hear all three of us give our onions on the subject.

That’s one part of the “rant” mentioned in the title of this episode, the other is when Jenn and Allison tag team a review of Lucy lost her heart, created by last week’s guest Mark Lawes.  The show was presented March 28th-30th at Usine C.

Finally Allison ends the episode with a long overdue review of Dominique Porte’s JE, which was presented by Tangente back in early February.

Our show from APRIL 5th, 2012
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Until we meet again,

Allison Burns, Jenn Doan and Kati Belanger

Mark Lawes talks about Lucy's Heart

Hello Montréal,

In this episode of Movement Museum, we talk to Mark Lawes, the founding artistic director of Theater Junction, a Calgary based theatrical and multi-disciplinary performance group.  We talk about the company; it’s history and the Theater Junction Grand building.  The discussion takes an Alberta perspective seeing as two of our hosts, Jenn and Kati harken from out west themselves.  Of course the reason we invited Mark on the show this week was to talk about his show, Lucy Lost her Heart, which Jenn and Allison saw the night before at Usine C.



After the interview, Kati tells us about the FTA line up, so that we can start saving up our pennies and booking our tickets nice and early to avoid missing out.

Then Allison reviews the Tangente double bill of Sliding by Lise Vachon and Acéphales by Catherine Lavoie-Marcus.  This production was shown mid March of this year.

Lastly, Kati takes the lead on a review of Trois peaux + Vers, choreographed by Jean-Sébastien Lourdais.  The show was at Agora back in early February. It was one of the Montréal Danse’s 25th anniversary productions.

Our show from MARCH 29th, 2012
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We’ll talk to you soon!

Allison Burns, Jenn Doan and Kati Belanger

Love, Death, Devil & Grandeur Nature

Hello dance lovers,

This week we split our show in two.  In the first half hour Jenn interviews Ben J. Riepe Kopaine, the choreographer of Love Death Devil – The Piece, presented at La Chapelle.  Benefiting from having seeing the show beforehand, Jenn gets right into the work with Ben.

For the second half hour we switch to French and Kati and Karen interview Séverine Lombardo, the choreographer of Petites Pieces de Poches:  Grandeur Nature.  This work was presented by Danse-cité at Usine C.  Also recent witnesses of the work, the ladies talk logistics as well as process.



We top off the show today with a super-fast “micro-review” of last week’s Tangente presentation of Spin & Century of Small.  To learn more about that show, reference last week’s episode of Movement Museum when we interview the artists involved.

Our show from MARCH 8th, 2012
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Until next week Montréal,

Allison Burns, Kati Belanger, Jenn Doan and Karen Fennell

Whirling and hoops

Dearest Montreal,

We continue our Tangente marathon in this episode of Movement Museum as we interview two artists involved in this week's Tangente production, which is again a double bill.  Rebecca Halls is the choreographer and performer of Spin, and Raqib Brian Burke is a performer in Mira Hunter’s work Century of Small.  We discuss the difference and similarities of hula hooping and whirling dervish.  It is a dizzying conversation!

If you are interested in hearing the interview we referenced, from the last time Rebecca Halls was in studio with Movement Museum check it out here.


Our show from MARCH 1st, 2012
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Enjoy,

Allison Burns, Kati Belanger and Jenn Doan