Tour calendar

November 2024

  • 30 : Lanester (FR) - ESSENCE

ESSENCE

Choreography: Ausia Jones / Crystal Pite / Aszure Barton

To mark its 50th anniversary, Ballets Jazz Montréal inaugurated in the summer of 2022 a programme highlighting the works of three women: Ausia Jones, dancer within the company and emergent choreographer, with We Can’t Forget About What’s His Name, Crystal Pite with her revival of Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue and Aszure Barton with her piece Les Chambres des Jacques, created in 2006 for BJM and reworked.
This programme pays homage to the company’s roots but also serves as a springboard for a new artistic vision – a balance between the company’s DNA and the evolution of its mission into the next half-century.

We Can’t Forget About What’s His Name

Choreography: Ausia Jones
Music: Jasper Gahunia, Stephen Krecklo William Lamoureux aka Earth Boring
Lighting design: Claude Plante
Costume design: Anne-Marie Veevaete
Created in 2022
Duration: 22 min

Exploring the concepts of time, togetherness, community and isolation, this work reflects the extreme emotions that uncertainty creates in our lives as well as the space it allows for freedom and joy.

Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue

Choreography: Crystal Pite
Stager: Cindy Salgado
Music: Solaris by Cliff Martinez
Lighting design: Jim French
Costume design: Linda Chow
Created in 2008
Duration: 14 min

This five-dancer work offers a highly personal take on the theme of rescue between two people. In ten duets, each of which highlighting a particular aspect of ”rescue,” Crystal Pite approaches the human body from a poetic perspective.

Les Chambres des Jacques

Choreography: Aszure Barton
Assistant to the choreographer: Andrew Murdock
Music: Gilles Vigneault, Antonio Vivaldi, Les Yeux Noirs, The Cracow Klezmer Band Alberto Iglesias
Lighting: Daniel Ranger
Costume design: Rémi Van Bochove
Created in 2006
Duration: 32 min

Barton is interested in deep connection and in creating a process-driven space where trust is front and center, where dancers are seen and encouraged to make choices and to show up as they are.

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