2008 Woodie Awards
Jazz Show Ready to Take Spotlight
Jazz, vibrant dancing will be featured in performance
Adam Casas
Issue date: 3/9/05 Section: A&E
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Mix jazz with 13 high-energy, good-looking dancers and you get the creative choreography of Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, which opens at the Haugh Performing Arts Center on Friday at 8 p.m.
Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal is an international dance company started in Canada in 1970. It infuses modern dance with jazz in a three-set performance.
Offering a form of vibrant dance interfused with elements of avant-garde, BJM is blossoming as a new, hip and sexy modern jazz that choreographer Crystal Pite helped create in her three-year residency.
BJM begins with a dance set trilogy.The performances is called The Stolen Show, which was designed to show off the company's dance numbers
First dance set is Short Works, second is Xpectable, and lastly the best for last is The Stolen Show.
The performance includes sexy music, flashy dance moves and sensuality. Critics have labeled it "seductively exciting cohesive ensemble veering off into modern hip-hop."
In 1998 Louis Robitaille was appointed artistic director of Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal.
He has been dancing since he was 15 years old. Robitaille first took the stage with BJM and is now back to lead the company.
All 13 dancers have a strong background in classical dance. BJM has been pursuing a contemporary artistic mission, hoping to transform BJM with a fresh new energy.
Tickets are $25, students/senior pay $23 and anyone 16 and under get in for $12. Tickets for the show can be purchased at the Haugh box office or online.
Come down and see a sexy dance set and a company to watch.
Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal is an international dance company started in Canada in 1970. It infuses modern dance with jazz in a three-set performance.
Offering a form of vibrant dance interfused with elements of avant-garde, BJM is blossoming as a new, hip and sexy modern jazz that choreographer Crystal Pite helped create in her three-year residency.
BJM begins with a dance set trilogy.The performances is called The Stolen Show, which was designed to show off the company's dance numbers
First dance set is Short Works, second is Xpectable, and lastly the best for last is The Stolen Show.
The performance includes sexy music, flashy dance moves and sensuality. Critics have labeled it "seductively exciting cohesive ensemble veering off into modern hip-hop."
In 1998 Louis Robitaille was appointed artistic director of Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal.
He has been dancing since he was 15 years old. Robitaille first took the stage with BJM and is now back to lead the company.
All 13 dancers have a strong background in classical dance. BJM has been pursuing a contemporary artistic mission, hoping to transform BJM with a fresh new energy.
Tickets are $25, students/senior pay $23 and anyone 16 and under get in for $12. Tickets for the show can be purchased at the Haugh box office or online.
Come down and see a sexy dance set and a company to watch.