COLEMAN LEMIEUX & COMPAGNIE / SUN RA ARKESTRA LIVE
Voted Eye Weekly’s Best Live Music and a Toronto Star Top Ten dance event of 2008
Creation : 2008 Choreographer : Bill Coleman Musique : The Sun Ra Arkestra Music : 15 musicians on stage 7 Dancers Duration : 70 min
Flexible Work - Contact the company if you are interested..
A wildly theatrical, one-of-a-kind celebration by the legendary 15-piece Sun Ra Arkestra and the internationally acclaimed dancers of Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie.
With choreography by Bill Coleman and musical direction by Marshall Allen, Hymn to the Universe is a 70-minute concert and show featuring big-band standards, cosmic tap dancing, sumptuous visual creations and Sun Ra’s most captivating original songs.
Sun Ra, according to Rolling Stone Magazine, is “the missing link between Duke Ellington and Public Enemy” and Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie are “taking dance to places it has never been before”
(Toronto Star).
Together, they create “staggering coup de théâtre ”and “magic moments when music and dance came together as different dimensions of a similar thought”
(Globe and Mail).
“This wasn’t simply an event or a happening … What we witnessed that night was a true collaboration … Across disciplines, they were able to affect the human soul and cement the audience’s appreciation and love for the music and choreography that were such sheer delight.” (The Live Music Report)
IN PARADISUM
2008
Choreographed by James Kudelka
Project Kudelka consists of the following three works: Fifteen Heterosexual Duets, Soudain l’hiver dernier
and In Paradisum.
Creation years : 1983, 1987, 1991 and 2007 Choreographer : James Kudelka Duration : 90 min with interlude
If you want more informations about the show, please contact the company.
Project Kudelka consists of the following three works: Fifteen Heterosexual Duets, Soudain l’hiver dernier and In Paradisum.
In 2007, Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie remounted James Kudelka’s In Paradisum (1983), a work described by the Encyclopedia of Dance in Canada as a “Canadian classic”. James Kudelka spent 4 weeks in the studio remounting this new version of the work, adapting it to the dancers of Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie to be danced barefoot and for a cast of 9 dancers, instead of the original 15 created originally for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.
In Paradisum is quintessential Kudelka. It has the natural flexibility and range of modern dance supported by the precision of classical dance. It combines turbulent movement with emphatic gestures, memorable tableaux and surprising moments of ethereal serenity. Dedicated to the memory of his mother, In Paradisum has the trademark of demanding, fast-paced intricate movement patterns and natural emotional power. Yet, in spite of its emotional resonance for the choreographer, the work finds control through its immersion in pure technique, which in turn transforms, even masks, the emotionalism for the dancers.
“Powerful sculptural images crystallize amidst an incessant flux of simple but compelling
movements: sudden leaps, whirls, off-balance swayings, stylized gestures of grief, pleading compassion.”
Penelope Doob, Dance in Canada
“... it was their execution that dazzled - the split-second timing during complex partnering, and the gratifying lightness of low-to-the-ground leaps and lifts.”
Joy Goodwin, The New York Sun
HYMN TO THE UNIVERSE
IN PARADISUM
