Upcoming Performances
Mama dances choreography by Eryn Dace Trudell
Vernissage-danse #141 : Generations program at Studio 303
Danced by Monica Gan with Elodie and Audrey Lehouiller avec Zoe
Saturday November 15 at 7pm and 9pm
Studio 303, 372 Ste-Catherine Ouest, 3rd floor #303
Billets : 10$ VIP/étudiants, 12$ régulier
Disponibles à la porte ou en ligne au www.studio303.ca
Informations : (514) 393-3771 ou www.studio303.ca
The captivating Mama dances group of dancers explores and illuminates the physical relationship and the spontaneous events that transpire between mother and child. These duets emerge from the necessity of human attention and affection, magnifying the most intimate physical bond. Giving the dance stage to the mother, Mama dances is a meditation on perfect love and a manifestation of peaceful action.
Eryn Dace Trudell became a mother in 2005 after 15 years as a professional dancer, choreographer, presenter, producer and teacher. She holds a BFA in Dance from Juilliard and is certified in Skinner Releasing Technique. Eryn began this pursuit of "mama dancing research" with the debut of Mama dances!1000 mains at Festival Transatlantique, a choreography involving seven professional dancers and their babies. Eryn founded Mama dances in 2006, creating classes and workshops, encouraging and inviting all mothers and guardians to dance with their babies and share their discoveries in the process.
BIOGRAPHIES of Participating Artists:
A-Shôvàne Brisinbi received her bachelor’s degree in dance from Concordia University in 1999. She has danced for more than 20 years in cabaret and contemporary dance. She also leads rehearsals and teaches children. In 2000, she choreographed and performed a solo “Chiky Chiky ya ya yé” at Tangente in the Dance buissonnière series. She has participated in workshops given by O Vertigo and Holy Body Tattoo and has danced for Dave St-Pierre, Massimo Agostinelli, Motaz Kabbani, Julie Pilon, and many others. She has also taught, choreographed, and trained actors at McGill University. Recently, she has been a dancer on stilts with the troupe Sky…Pas Limite, singer, choreographer, and burlesque actress for the Hot Club Cabaret, and works with her company Equilibria. Her artistic explorations have spread to various other domains such as painting, theatre, singing, and sculpture, while keeping dance as her core pursuit.
Audrey Lehouiller étudie à l’École de danse de Québec avant de compléter sa formation professionnelle aux Ateliers de danse moderne de Montréal en 1998. Au fil des ans, elle danse pour les chorégraphes Stéphane Deligny, Parise Mongrain, Pierre Lecours et Karine Denault, et devient co-fondatrice du collectif La Fabrique Rouge. En 1998, elle entame la création d’une trilogie chorégraphique : Vous dansez mademoiselle ? (1998), Vous avez une plume de paon monsieur ? (2000) et Vous savez...madame ? (2001). Ces trois pièces colorées et humoristiques sont présentées, entre autres, à Tangente, dans les Maisons de la Culture de Montréal et au Festival International de Nouvelle Danse. En 2003, Audrey amorce une nouvelle démarche artistique : Bleue. Dans cette aventure solo, elle met de côté son imaginaire théâtral pour développer une danse plus intime et personnelle. Présentée à Tangente en avril 2003, la pièce se hisse parmi les dix chorégraphies les plus marquantes de l’année, selon le journal culturel ICI Montréal. Sa dernière création, Hypnoptik, a été présentée à Tangente en mars 2005. Audrey est la maman de Massimo, âgé de 2 1/2 ans ainsi que de Zoe, née le 28 juillet dernier.
Dancer, choreographer and teacher, Mexican-born Talía Leos has lived in Montréal since 2003. A graduate of the master’s program in dance at UQAM, Talía holds degrees in contemporary dance (Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey, 1994) and in pedagogy (Centro de Estudios Universitarios, 2001). She has also received professional training in music (Facultad de Música de la UANL et Universidad Regiomontana). Since 1987, Talía Leos has danced professionally for Mexican and American dance companies and her creative and teaching projects have been produced and presented in Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Between 1996 and 2003 she received scholarships, prizes and grants for choreography, studies and teaching, due to her interest in creating community dance projects as well as projects in the professional dance world. Talía Leos has specialized since 1997 in dance and handicaps, the topic of her thesis project at UQÀM. In 1997 she founded Cuerpo en Voz and Animas del Cuerpo, contemporary dance troupes involving handicapped and able-bodied dancers. In 2000 she founded and coordinated Depiesacabeza,a.c., a group of artist-instructors of multidisciplinary projects for handicapped and able-bodied participants. In Montréal she has worked with choreographers such as France Geoffroy, Sandrine Amra, Jemima Hoadley, Eryn Dace Trudell, Nicole Saucedo, and Margie Gillis. She has taught at Corpuscule Danse, at the École Jean-Piaget, and at Auberge Saint-Antoine. Her projects have been presented at Soirée des performances UQÀM 2003, Bain St-Mathieu, En masse, Society for Arts and Technology, Agorafestif 2004, Kick 3, Passerelle 840, Jam–Performance Evenings.
Aurélie Pedron graduated in dance from UQAM in 2004, and works in both stage and video creation. Particularly interested in artistic interconnection, she has explored videodance and animated film. In 2005, most of her videos were presented at the Casa Obscura. In 2006, Studio 303 showed “Il était des fois” during the Edgy Women festival. Two of her recent works were presented at the Cinémathèque québécoise for International Dance Day 2006. Aurélie has also explored the world of Artaud and created in December 2005 “C’est ainsi qu’on avale Artaud”, a performance for three actors and five dancers.
Monica Gan is an independant dancer who has performed throughout Canada and the world and has worked for several choreographers and dance companies, including Learie McNicolls, Andrea Nann, CORPUS, Lucie Grégoire. Pigeons International, and the Jean-Pierre Perreault Foundation. She has also choreographed and produced several of her own shows, including “In Time” and “Jungle Twang” for Summer Cocktails in 1996, “Cleaning House” for the Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists in 2000, and “Wardrobe” in 2002. Her most recent creation is “Wind”, a solo premiered at Festival Accès Asie in 2005. A former gymnast and a graduate of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Monica has also practiced the martial arts Shaolin Kung Fu and Yang Style Tai Chi for many years.
Caroline Sirois received her bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance (performance major) from the Université du Québec à Montréal after having performed many times in “The Nutcracker” with the Grands Ballets Canadiens and after completing her studies in classical ballet at the École supérieure de danse du Québec. While a student, she worked with renowned choreographers such as José Navas, Jean-Pierre Perreault, Louise Bédard, Daniel Léveillé and Paul-André Fortier. She took intensive classes in Mexico in 2002 with the Ballet de la Ciudad de México, participated in a summer workshop with Roger Sinha, and received a work-study grant with the company O Vertigo. On the professional stage, she has performed several roles for the Opéra de Montréal, and performed as a contemporary dancer in the fantasy opera “Le Quatrième Enfant-Lune” by Oriol Tomas, set to music by Gabriel Thibaudeau.
Nancy Rivest took private lessons in classical ballet with Lina Cruz for four years and has also graduated from the Ateliers de danse moderne de Montréal under the artistic direction of Tassy Teekman. She has performed the works of Estelle Clareton, Danse Sursaut, Sheila Ribeiro (Brazil), Harold Rhéaume, and Benjamin Hatcher, among others. She danced for choreographer Motaz Kabbani for five years. Improvisation and butoh are two major poles in the development of her artistic expression. She has also participated in Elisabeth Corbeth’s workshops exploring the principles of structured improvisation developed by William Forsythe. She takes part regularly in butoh workshops including those of Yuri Waguri, Jocelyne Montpetit and Yumiko Yushioka. With the support of the Canada Council, she was a member of DanceWeb in Austria in 2002 where she received coaching from David Zambranoo and Emio Greco. Also in 2002, she collaborated with multidisciplinary artists to develop dance videos, photographic projects, and performances of vijing (Les Technocrates).
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