The Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault is pleased to announce that it is beginning work on its project Jean-Pierre Perreault, Architect of Space, a virtual experience created in partnership with Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) and HexagramUQAM, with funding from the Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine du Québec. See the press release.
Theresa Rowat, director of the McGill University Archives and member of the Fondation’s board of directors, organized a panel entitled “Archiver l’éphémère: réalités et défis”. Sophie Préfontaine (executive director of the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault), Manon Oligny (choreographer, Manon fait de la danse) and Frédéric Moffet (videographer, interdisciplinary artist and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago) participated in a discussion of the issues involved in preserving our dance heritage.
The Fondation also shared the experience it has acquired over the past few years by describing to the thirty or so archivists present the major legal and administrative challenges involved in working with our dance heritage.
Here is an excerpt from the 39th Annual conference’s official program:
“Over the past few years, the dance community has become aware of the issues raised by the ephemeral nature of its art. The capacity for dance to endure is compromised by insufficient documentation and lack of primary archival sources, limiting the possibilities for analysis, historical research and the reconstruction of dance works.
Given that archival preservation is focused on the record, how can dance be made ‘archivable’? If our goal is to preserve our dance heritage, what are the determining features of archival materials which will reflect the essence of a dance piece or the vitality of a performance?”
The Regroupement Québécois de la dance yesterday launched the 5th edition of the event Pas de danse, pas de vie! with the unveiling of the Trace chorégraphique 2010 created by the Fondation and dedicated to Jean-Pierre Perreault. You can follow this pas de deux in front of the Conseil des arts de Montréal located at 1210 Sherbrooke Street East. Metro: Sherbooke. Take a look at Pas de danse, pas de vie!’s complete program.
To mark the 5th edition of Pas de danse, pas de vie!, the Fondation is presenting to the Regroupement québécois de la danse, La Trace chorégraphique 2010, an excerpt from a duo in the work Les Années de Pèlerinage. This historical trace, the first pas de deux in RQD’s repertoire, will be introduced by Marc Boivin, the Fondation’s chair and spokesperson for La Trace chorégraphique 2010, at the launch of the event on 26 April 2010.
Work comprised of 3 male-female duets
Choreography: Jean-Pierre Perreault
Music: Franz Listz and Bertrand Chénier
Scenography and costumes: Jean-Pierre Perreault
Lighting: Louis-Pierre Trépanier
Choregrapher’s assistant: Ginelle Chagnon
Dancers: Sandra Lapierre and Marc Boivin, AnneBruce Falconer and Ken Roy, Lucie Boissinot and Sylvain Émard
Premiere: September 18, 1996, Salle Beverley-Webster-Rolph, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
Co-production: l’Office Artistique de la Région Aquitaine (OARA), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault
Duration: 53 minutes
To mark the 25th edition of its Grand Prix award, the Conseil des arts de Montréal is paying tribute to the 24 past winners of the award. Each year since 1985 the award has been recognizing excellence in Montreal productions or events. See the capsule on Jean-Pierre Perreault, who won the Grand Prix of the Conseil des arts de Montréal in 1999.
The Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois offers fans of the work of Jean-Pierre Perreault an opportunity to see, or revisit, the television adaptation of JOE, directed by Bernard Picard for Radio-Canada, as part of the CINEDANSE evening on 23 February. See the press release (communique100210_eng).
At the opening reception for the SOIRÉE PERREAULT presented in collaboration with UQAM’s Département de danse on Wednesday 16 December 2009, the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault proudly announced that Sophie Préfontaine will take over as the organization’s new executive director as of January 15th 2010. See the press release (communique_DGFJPP_eng).
Following the fruitful partnerships established with Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec leading to the acquisition of the Fonds Jean-Pierre Perreault, and the Société de la Place des Arts to preserve and exhibit Jean-Pierre Perreault’s stage designs, the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault returns to the Montreal scene in collaboration with UQAM’s Département de danse for the presentation of three major works from Perreault’s early period. This presentation is organized as part of the course Spectacle chorégraphie dirigé II from 16 to 19 December 2009. See the presse relase (communique_Soiree Perreault_eng).
What the critics are saying:
The Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault is launching a new Web site.
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