PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 19th at 7pm & 9pm
at Studio 303

with choreographies by:
Pierre Blackburn --------->physical theatre
Louis Guillemette ---------> yogadanse & impro
Rebecca Halls ---------> hoopdance
Suzanne Miller ---------> contemporary dance
Isabel Mohn --------->contemporary dance
Michèle Turenne ---------> African dance

featuring Studio 303's evening classes particpants

Espedom by Louis Guillemette (16 minutes)
Une tribu urbaine se délecte à confondre la certitude des genres. Ils explorent et exposent leurs zones grises, d'inconforts, d'incertitudes, d'ambiguïtés. Un Genre Humain riche dans leurs différences et semblables dans leurs essences, des transgenres en mouvement indisciplinaire pas comme les autres.

Louis Guillemette is an always on the go Artist of movement. Working as a designer, artistic adviser, choreographer, dancer and improviser for 30 years, his field of activities include cinema, video and the stage arts. Louis presented his work in Canada, in the United States, in Cuba and in Europe. He was a dance and theater teacher at Concordia University during 10 years as well as beeing invited to give training courses at Cirque du Soleil, UQAM and LADMMI in Europe and the USA. Louis danced with LALALA Human Steps during 5 years and collaborated with world known artists. He is now an artistic adviser and professor of movement at l'École Nationale du Cirque and teaches his approach at Studio 303 since 1990.

Contemporary Dance with Suzanne Miller (5 minutes)
Influenced by her practice as a dancer, choreographer and company director - over the past 25 years, Suzanne Miller has conducted classes, workshops and performance residencies in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Europe, Venezuela and most recently in the Middle East. www.millerpaivio.com

Contemporary Dance with Isabel Mohn
Originally from Berlin, Isabel Mohn has completed her training at LADMMI and graduated in 1999. Since then, she is creating and interpreting her own work, which is presented in Quebec, Germany and Finland. For the last ten years, Isabel has been given classes in many schools and organizations such as LADMMI and Cirque du Soleil.

African Dance with Michèle Turenne (12 minutes)
Michèle Turenne was born in Haïti and lives in Canada since her early childhood. She began her traditional African dancing career in the late 70’s with Yaya Diallo, a musician and master dancer from Mali. Meanwhile, Michèle continues her training in Limon modern dancing. She is interested by all kinds of movement and that leads her to learn oriental Baladi dancing, which she starts teaching in 1984 as well as African and Afro-modern dancing. In 1985, Michèle finished a degree in nutrition, after what dancing became her main activity and she founded La Compagnie Michèle Turenne-Tam-Tam-Danse. Then, from 1991 to 1995, she attended law school and now works as a lawyer in cases of discrimination and fights against social exclusion. She continues to give African dancing classes and to perform, moderately. Her choreographies often address political and social concerns.  

Hoopdance with Rebecca Halls
Founder of IHOOPU Rebecca Halls has been teaching hoopdance for six years. She began hooping in 2003. Hooping offered a doorway through which Rebecca was able to re-connect with her dance training of 17 years. She began studying dance again and integrating dance principles into her hoop class. She has been performing on stage with her hoops since 2005 and has collaborated with numerous other hoopers & dancers to create hoop choreographies for events and venues. Her passion lies in creating hoopdance choreography for video and is currently collaborating with filmaker Marites Carino to create an Experimental Dance Film called Hoop that will be aired on Bravo TV in Autumn 2010. http://www.ihoopu.com/

Théâtre physique with Pierre Blackburn (15 minutes)
Les ateliers de théâtre physique de Pierre Blackburn portent surtout sur la recherche de l’authenticité dans le jeu. Comment arriver à ressentir une émotion véritable et à la communiquer par le mouvement et la parole. Le travail porte donc essentiellement sur le mariage du corps, de la voix et de l’émotion. Il cherche aussi à faire naître la créativité chez l’acteur.

Issu du théâtre expérimental, Pierre Blackburn enseigne le théâtre physique depuis 1983. Par la suite, il a travaillé avec plusieurs chorégraphes et fondé une compagnie de danse-théâtre avec Louis Guillemette, Artistes en Mouvement. Depuis de nombreuses années, Pierre est réalisateur. Récemment, il s’adonne à l’écriture cinématographique.