Day: August 1, 2020

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itinerary

Danse Kalashas, Montreal

The first dance insti­tu­tion to present at the l’Ago­ra de la danse on its open­ing at the dance depart­ment of the Uni­ver­sité du Québec on Cher­ri­er Street, in the fall of 1991, was Danse Kalashas (con­tem­po­rary dance com­pa­ny) who opened with Of Mice and Oth­er Sim­i­lar Devices (1990), the Danse Kalashas’ found­ing work first per­formed at Tan­gente (Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 1990).

Danse Kalashas pré­pare une semaine d’activités spé­ciales pour l’automne à l’Agora de la danse, qui per­me­t­tra au spec­ta­teur de se famil­iaris­er avec le Kathakali et le Kathak, deux formes tra­di­tion­nelles, et d’assister à des spec­ta­cles de contemporain.

(Le Devoir, 1991)

(Dia­gramme Ges­tion Cul­turelle, 1991)

Danse Kalashas and Richard Trem­blay returned to Ago­ra in 1995 to fea­ture in Volet Choré­graphes XII, a Danse Cité series where the com­pa­ny pre­sent­ed La Courbe en Flo­con de Neige to music com­posed and per­formed live by Bruno Paquet — a week-long pro­gramme shared in tan­dem with chore­o­g­ra­ph­er and artis­tic direc­tor Daniel Soulières.

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Geneviève Pepin’s Collection

The per­form­ers at the 1992 revival at the Saidye Bronf­man Cen­ter (Cen­ter for the Arts and Per­for­mance), Mon­tre­al. Fore­ground: Bruno Paquet (per­cus­sion) with dancers Geneviève Pepin, Sophie Des­jardins and Kir­il Chour. Sec­ond row: Richard Trem­blay (chore­o­g­ra­ph­er) and Francine Gag­né (Dancer).

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Representation of the Belligerent Hero

Once upon a time: The make up of weapons

The Para­pu­rap­pa­da is the Kathakali grand open­ing of war, includ­ing the make up of weapons, and a for­mal call to his armies by the hero war­rior. Tra­di­tion­al­ly, it is wide­ly used by the Kat­ti (“Knife”) char­ac­ter. It was in The Ili­ad or The Sto­ry of Achilles, that Parap­pu­rap­pa­da was first made use of as a chore­o­graph­ic pat­tern for the pac­cha (“Green”, or of benev­o­lent) type. As designed by Richard Trem­blay, in the Kathakali Ili­ad, the Parap­pu­rap­pa­da empha­sizes Achilles’ wrath as he returns to war after his friend Patro­clus is slaugh­tered by the Tro­jans. There­after, the pat­tern was used in oth­er new Kathakali works for sim­i­lar purposes.