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May 23, 2008

Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal to preview new work at
The Banff Centre May 29

An Evening with Aszure Barton • Thursday, May 29 • 8:00 p.m.
Eric Harvie Theatre, The Banff Centre
Adult $24, Senior and Student $21, Arts Lover Passholders $12
Banff Centre Box Office: 1-800-413-8368 or 762-6301
Presented as part of the Playbill Series and the 2008 Banff Summer Arts Festival

Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (bjm_danse) will present a full evening of works by Alberta choreographer Aszure Barton, at The Banff Centre May 29. The evening includes a preview of a special new commission, which has been created as part of a two-week creative residency this month at The Banff Centre. The work will then premiere at the Canada Dance Festival in Ottawa in June before touring internationally.

As part of their residency, the (bjm_danse) company and artistic director Louis Robitaille have access to the Centre’s on-site wardrobe and set shops, lighting and stage design, and the Eric Harvie Theatre. The residency will conclude eight weeks of intensive work from start to finish.

Barton, an artist-in-residence at the Baryshnikov Dance Center in New York, has developed choreography around the individuality of each dancer, inviting them to fully immerse themselves in the creative process. The result is a work that reveals each artist’s own creative impulses. (bjm_danse) has a mandate to develop new talent, particularly Canadian choreographers. 

Aszure Barton
Resident choreographer for (bjm_danse), Barton is also artistic director of the Aszure & Artists dance company. After studying at the National Ballet School in Toronto, she performed with companies including the National Ballet of Canada, Hell’s Kitchen Dance, and (bjm_danse). As a choreographer, she has created original work for companies including the Martha Graham Dance Company, the National Ballet of Canada, American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, and the Sydney Ballet Company. She choreographed a recent production of Threepenny Opera on Broadway, starring Alan Cumming and Cyndi Lauper. Barton is a recipient of The Banff Centre’s Paul D. Fleck Fellowship in the Arts, which has contributed to bringing her and (bjm_danse) to Banff for this creative residency.

A co-production of The Banff Centre, the National Arts Centre, and the Canada Dance Festival.

For more information about the 2008 Banff Summer Arts Festival:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/bsaf/2008/

 

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