The Village Voice reviews the company's appearance at Jacob's Pillow this summer: Try a Little Tenderness: A Canadian company and choreographer keep it small and personal.

The Kudelka/Taylor Project premiered in January, 2006. Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie brought Kudelka together with 11 of Canada’s finest dancers -- Annik Bissonnette, Andrea Boardman, Marc Boivin, Bill Coleman, Andrew Giday, Sasha Ivanochko, Sylvain Lafortune, Laurence Lemieux, Anne Plamondon, Victor Quijada and Mario Radacovsky -- along with the period ensemble The Theatre of Early Music and countertenor Daniel Taylor, winner of the Opus Prize for Artist of the Year in 2000.

In this video are excerpts from the Fifteen Heterosexual Duets and Soudain, l’hiver dernier, and it is as it was.

In celebration of a great Canadian dance work, this book offers a feature essay by artistic director Laurence Lemieux, along with intriguing thoughts and observations by some of the dancers who participated in the reconstruction of James Kudelka's master work. A gallery of 90 photographs taken during rehearsals and performances provides a window on the process and a moving preview of the achievement.

For more information, visit the book's website.

ISBN: 0-929003-66-7
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184 pp., 90 photographs

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From The New York Times, October 2, 2006, by writer Jennifer Dunning.

Fatigue set in by the end of the overly generous second program in the Fall for Dance festival on Saturday night at City Center. But not before the evening's jewel, an excerpt from James Kudelka's "Fifteen Heterosexual Duets," set to Beethoven's "Kreutzer" Sonata.

Credit should go to Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie of Montreal, whose dancers moved easily and wittily, looking like grown-ups who had lived full lives. Mr. Kudelka's choreography is just as witty, full of ingenious partnering and glancing, perceptive takes on lovers' foibles and the art of the duet.