Dance in Quebec
Dance in Quebec includes
Traditional
In late 17th century,
The tradition included galops.[1]
Dancing had traditionally been monitored by the Catholic clergy of the province of Quebec, which often used its social and moral influence to ban dancing altogether in many villages and towns.[2]
Classical ballet
The very first classical ballet studios in the province of Quebec started appearing in 1945.[3] In 1952, in Montreal, Ludmilla Chiriaeff established the Ballets Chiriaeff, which became Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in 1957. She then founded, in 1966, the Académie des Grands Ballets Canadiens, nowadays known as the École supérieure de ballet du Québec.[4]
More recently, in 1989, Christiane Bélanger founded the Christiane Bélanger-Danse
She also created the École de mécanique corporelle du Québec to help elite athletes improve their performances.
Contemporary
Marie Chouinard, Benoît Lachambre, Ginette Laurin and the companies they created in Quebec, O Vertigo, D and PPS Danse are celebrated names in contemporary dance whose productions have spread internationally. Christiane Bélanger [fr] founded the first dance company in Quebec City after the DansePartout company, founded by Chantal Bellhumeur and subsequently taken over by Luc Tremblay. The Compagnie Christiane Bélanger was established in 2001 and turned a corner to become exclusively dedicated to classical Ballet in 2005 ; it is now known as the Ballet de Québec. Christiane Bélanger was awarded the Prix François-Samson pour le Développement culturel in 2007[9] by the Conseil de la culture des régions de Québec-Chaudières Appalaches. Her style, which was referred to as neoclassical, was an extreme form of dance composed of a combination of martial arts, theatre and bold classical Ballet techniques from her classical Ballet experience. There are many auditoriums promoting contemporary dance in the
See also
Further reading
- Sévigny, Jean-Pierre. Sierra Norteña: the Influence of Latin Music on the French-Canadian Popular Song and Dance Scene, Especially as Reflected in the Career of Alys Robi and the Pedagogy of Maurice Lacasse-Morenoff. Montréal: Productions Juke-Box, 1994. 13 p. N.B. Published text of a paper prepared for, and presented on, 12 March 1994, the conference, Popular Music Music & Identity (Montréal, Qué., 12–13 March 1994), under the auspices of the Canadian Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.
Notes
- ^ Dorothy Hogan (2009-08-26). "Grande Ronde (book)". mnemo.qc.ca.
- ^ CVM.qc.ca
- ^ Michel Landry, La danse au Québec
- ^ École supérieure de Ballet du Québec
- ^ "Bienvenue chez Christiane Bélanger-Danse LES STUDIOS Cadence". Archived from the original on 2002-12-02.
- ^ "Home". leballetdequebec.com. Archived from the original on 2017-09-22. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
- ^ "Ballet-études - Cégep Garneau". Archived from the original on 2014-11-29.
- ^ "Jacques Marsa de l'Opéra de Paris". Archived from the original on 2016-01-07.
- ^ "Prix d'excellence des arts et de la culture". www.culture-quebec.qc.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-03-16.