{"id":413,"date":"2018-06-26T08:52:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/re-tours-virginie-brunelle\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:02:43","slug":"re-tours-virginie-brunelle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/en\/re-tours-the-artists\/re-tours-virginie-brunelle\/","title":{"rendered":"RE-TOURS: Virginie Brunelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over the last four years, <strong>Virginie Brunelle<\/strong> has made her mark on the dance milieu. Her three major works: <em>Les cuisses \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cart du c\u0153ur<\/em> (2009), <em>Foutrement<\/em> (2010) and <em>Complexe des genres<\/em> (2011), were presented in Montreal, Europe and Lebanon and have earned her several awards. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiebrunelle.com\/\">www.virginiebrunelle.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>TOURING EXPERIENCE ( IN A NUTSHELL )<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As I am still in a period of development, it\u2019s difficult to say how much time I travel for my artistic work since it has still not regularized. That said, for the upcoming year, I will be away from Montreal and on tour in Quebec and Europe for 18 shows over 42 days.<\/li>\n<li>I have an agent. I communicate with presenters on artistic questions and my agent follows up to negotiate fees and services.<\/li>\n<li>Presenters like buying work they\u2019ve seen. For the majority of our contracts, the presenter had been invited to see a performance at one theatre or another.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>SELECT PERFORMANCES AND RESIDENCY EXPERIENCES<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Melkweg Theatre, JULIDANS Festival, Amsterdam, Holland<\/li>\n<li>Gender Bender Festival, Arena Del Sole, Bologna, Italy<\/li>\n<li>Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice, Italy<\/li>\n<li>Teatro Lauro Rossi, Macerata, Italy<\/li>\n<li>CSC Garage Nardini (residency), Bassano del Grappa, Italy<\/li>\n<li>Festival International des Brigittines, Brussels, Belgium<\/li>\n<li>Banc d\u2019Essais Internationaux\u00a0tour: Interplay Festival, Turin, Italy; Archauz, Aarhus, Denmark; Chapter, Cardiff, Great Britain; Music sacrum Schouwburg, Arnhem, the Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Jeux de la Francophonie, Beirut, Lebanon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>THE ANECDOTES<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigittines.be:8080\/fr\/brigittines\/accueil\">Festival International des Brigittines<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>What:<\/strong> Performance at a festival<br \/>\n<strong>Who:<\/strong> Patrick Bont\u00e9, Director<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong> Brussels, Belgium<br \/>\n<strong>When:<\/strong> Five days in August 2010. There was around one year between the initial contact and the performance.<\/p>\n<p>It was during a market research voyage in 2009 funded by the OQWBJ, that I first made contact with the festival director. My work seemed well suited to the festival programming.<br \/>\nAccommodation and per diems were covered by the festival.<br \/>\nI took advantage of the opportunity to contact, via press release, around a hundred presenters from Benelux and France that had something in common with my work, as well as the press and presenters in Quebec and Canada. This was followed-up by personalized invitations. Certain presenters, including the Baasbank and Baggerman agency, who program the Julidans Festival, responded. The director himself, accompanied by two members of his selection committee, attended a show!<br \/>\nAfter the second show, we had a discussion with the public. My dancers and I exchanged with a curious, intrigued and enthusiastic audience for over thirty minutes. A particularly touching moment: a woman of over seventy years old began to speak. In a voice broken by the holding back of tears, she spoke of the beauty she had witnessed and of the emotion that the movements had evoked in her. After her speech, all of the spectators warmly applauded. A touching moment for the whole team!<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.julidans.nl\/page.ocl?pageID=2\">Julidans<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>What:<\/strong> Performance at a festival<br \/>\n<strong>Who:<\/strong> Jaap van Baasbank, Founder and Director<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong> Amsterdam, Holland<br \/>\n<strong>When:<\/strong> Five days in July 2011. One year passed between the initial contact and the performance.<\/p>\n<p>It was during our stay at the Festival des Brigittines that we made a first contact with Jaap van Baasbank. One year later our show was programmed at his prestigious Julidans Festival.<br \/>\nThe festival covered accommodation, per diems and local travel.<br \/>\nPascale Corre\u00efa, the company\u2019s agent, had sent personalized invitations to several European presenters. A few responded positively. Presenters from London (Alistair Spalding \u2013 Sadlers Wells), from Switzerland (Niels Ewerck \u2013 Gessmerallee Z\u00fcrich), from Belgium (Gloria Carlier \u2013 Schowburg Kortrijk and Karin De Schutter \u2013 Schowburg Aalst), from France (Anita Mathieu \u2013 Rencontres chor\u00e9graphiques internationales \u2013 Paris and Helen Debacker \u2013 La rose des vents Villeneuve D\u2019ascq) and the Netherlands attended the performance. After the first show we already had positive reactions. Karin De Schutter and Gloria Carlier, theatre directors in Belgium confirmed their interest in <em>Foutrement<\/em>. Moved by the emotions in the piece, they wished to present the work during the 2013 season.<br \/>\nJaap Van Baasbank, Julidans Festival director and also president of a presenting agency \u2013 Van Baasbank and Baggerman \u2013 confirmed his interest in taking the company into their agency in order to offer <em>Foutrement<\/em> in a Holland\/Belgium tour in February 2013 for at least ten shows. Since then, the tour has been confirmed!<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/CSC-Garage-Nardini\/100400946698836\">CSC Garage Nardini<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>What:<\/strong> Residency and informal presentation<br \/>\n<strong>Who:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operaestate.it\/csc\/\">Opera Estate<\/a> (Roberto Casarotto, International Dance Projects)<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong> Bassano del Grappa, Italy<br \/>\n<strong>When:<\/strong> Eight days in November 2010. Two years passed between the initial contact and the performance.<\/p>\n<p>It was during a presentation of Les cuisses \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cart du c\u0153ur at Studio 303 that I first met Roberto Casarotto. He was very enthusiastic about the work and proposed a partnership on the spot: a tour and a creation residency.<br \/>\nIn exchange for the residency space, the company gave three workshops to local dancers. The municipality of Bassano del Grappa covered our accommodation.<br \/>\nThis place was able to please the entire team and as a result this residency was very fruitful. In fact, the fifty-odd spectators that attended the informal presentation were charmed by the performance. Rosa Scapin, General Manager of the Municipality of Bassano del Grappa, in charge of the Operaestate festival Veneto \u2013 a festival that includes creation residencies \u2013 was particularly touched by the maturity of the short choreographies and by the clarity of the choreographic signature. She mentioned that she had rarely seen such an artistic assertion from such a young choreographer!<\/p>\n<p>Note : This story was written in 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Over the last four years, Virginie Brunelle has made her mark on the dance milieu. 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