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| Performances in the 2012 Festival: |
| FULL PROGRAMS |
| Vertiges Fortier Danse-Creation Firehall Arts Centre Inheritor Album 605 Collective Vancouver Playhouse Fragments from Pierced MOVE: the company Firehall Arts Centre Yemayo Julio Hong Firehall Arts Centre this time Heidi Strauss/adelheid Studio T/Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, SFU Woodward`s bANGER Tara Cheyenne Performance Firehall Arts Centre |
| MIXED PROGRAMS |
| EDGE one EDGE two EDGE three EDGE four EDGE five EDGE six |
| SITE WORK |
| 3 Places... Karissa Barry Firehall Arts Centre Courtyard What`s the Idea Brad Muirhead/ Science Friction Victory Square (W. Hastings @ Cambie) |
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Vertiges
Paul-André Fortier
Fortier Danse-Création
Montreal, QC
Thursday July 5 and Friday July 6, 2012 @ 7PM
Firehall Arts Centre
280 E. Cordova St. at Gore St.
Paul-André Fortier
Fortier Danse-Création
Montreal, QC
Thursday July 5 and Friday July 6, 2012 @ 7PM
Firehall Arts Centre
280 E. Cordova St. at Gore St.
Malcolm Goldstein
and Paul-André Fortier by Ginelle Chagnonr
Vertiges is an encounter between two mature men: one a dancer, the other, a violinist. Both advance along a thin thread of the creative process, at first carefully, then somewhat recklessly. Summoned by absences, they are swept away by vertigo -- the scenery becomes out of focus and the space before them shrinks. Their melancholy is palpable, yet sorrow never takes the upper hand. They move confidently along the tightrope of the present in a dialogue of sound and movement that cuts to the quick; their eyes reflect both smiles and tears. Two men, two experienced bodies, cast threads of light from yesterday to tomorrow. They move forward, in complicity, leaving large spaces behind them. They have a rendezvous on the other side of the horizon...
Performers
Paul-André Fortier
Malcolm Goldstein
Paul-André Fortier
Malcolm Goldstein
Paul-André
Fortier
has made an immense contribution
to contemporary dance in Quebec over the past 30 years as a pioneering
creator,
performer and teacher. He has created nearly 50 choreographies, solos,
group
pieces and site-specific works. A
performer with a striking presence, this self-described “man who
dances”
challenges himself with spatial, time and technique constraints that
push his
own limits and those of his art.
Inspired by the crossover of various artistic
disciplines, he has
collaborated with other leading artists, including Françoise Sullivan,
Betty
Goodwin, Rober Racine, Alain Thibault, Robert Morin and Malcolm
Goldstein.
Paul-André
Fortier began his performance career in the 1970s as a member of Le
Groupe
Nouvelle Aire, dancing in some of the first works of his peers (Édouard Lock, Daniel Léveillé). In
2012, he received the Governor General's
Performing Arts Award, and he
was appointed Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the
French
government in 2010.
Other
honours include the Jean
A. Chalmers Award for Choreography and the Dora
Mavor Moore Award.
Malcolm
Goldstein was born
in Brooklyn (USA) in 1936. A
composer, violinist and improviser, he has been active in the
presentation of
new music and dance since the early 1960s, when he participated in the
Tone
Roads Ensemble, Judson Dance Theater and Experimental Intermedia
Foundation in
New York City. Though trained as a classical violinist, his music
becamefocused
on open improvisation and structured improvisation-composition. His
"Soundings"
improvisations have received international acclaim for having
"reinvented
violin playing". Numerous composers—as diverse as John
Cage and Ornette Coleman—have written music for him. Since the late
1970s he
has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe and Japan, with
performances of his solo violin/voice and ensemble compositions, at
festivals
of contemporary music.
Vertiges
Firehall Arts Centre
280 E. Cordova St. at Gore St.
Thursday July 5 & Friday July 6, 2012 @ 7PM
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