Archive for category: News – 25 yrs

A great reception by audiences and critics alike

BAGNE Re-création received a enthusiast reception by its audience and by the press. PPS Danse would like to thank its team of artistic collaborators for the excellent work done.  Mission accomplished!

 

The Globe and Mail

“Time has passed, conditions have changed, and so have we — though scenes from this hard and touching show will stay with me, like memories refreshed and old nightmares renewed.”

— Robert Everett-Green    [read the entire review]

Le Devoir

« … Actuel, brûlant et percutant. Avec lui un pan de la mémoire chorégraphique de Montréal en renaissance à travers lui. »
« … la pièce évoque surtout nos prisons intérieures, notre incapacité à briser les chaînes de nos ego, notre difficulté à nous tourner vers l’autre. »

La Presse

« Crée en 1993 , Bagne demeure une pièce forte et percutante. La physicalité de Hall et Savoie est intense et radicale à l’image de leur quête artistique … Spectacle fort réussi. 4 étoiles. »

Retrospective Exhibition – PPS Danse 25 years

“Looking back to better grasp the distance covered and the countless inspiring encounters along the way. A look back to light the way ahead… ” – Pierre-Paul Savoie

PPS Danse is pleased to invite you to a retrospective exhibition of the company at the Espace culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme of Place des Arts from September 4 to October 10, 2015. This special event showcases our artistic heritage and pays tribute to the company’s invaluable collaborators. Our retro-video gives an overview!

Pierre-Paul Savoie also invites you to a guided tour of the exhibition on September 26 and 27, 2015 during the Journées de la Culture at Place des Arts, retracing highlights of his career through artifacts, photos and video clips of outstanding works from his repertoire.

This exhibition received support from the Place des Arts and the Conseil des arts de Montréal.

PPS Danse celebrates 25 years

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PPS Danse is marking its 25th anniversary with an outstanding program of activities that pays tribute to the remarkable and many-faceted talents of its founder and Artistic Director, Pierre-Paul Savoie.

In this perspective, to highlight the company’s artistic vitality and its shared pleasure in being part of the fresco of contemporary dance in Québec, the PPS Danse team is planning two major events:

Bagne Recréation

The re-creation of Bagne, one of its most acclaimed works, will be presented by Danse Danse in co-production with Place des Arts, from October 21 to 31, 2015, at the Cinquième Salle of Place des Arts.

In re-creating and passing on the choreographic score to a new generation of dancers, co-creators Pierre-Paul Savoie and Jeff Hall promise a gripping and powerful work, expressing the essence of humanity and a timeless theme intensified by the strength, energy and sensuality of the movements.

PPS Danse – Exhibition

A retrospective and themed exhibition at the Espace Georges-Émile-Lapalme of Place des Arts, from early September to mid-October 2015. This special event will showcase the company’s artistic heritage and pay tribute to our invaluable collaborators.

Founder’s Message

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25 years. Most of all, it’s a look back to light the way ahead.

Looking back to better grasp the distance we’ve covered and the countless inspiring encounters along the way. In my mind are the managers, collaborators, dancers and actors, all the works and individuals who were there on this long and winding road.

25 years. It’s a time to take stock, to reflect and recall the hits, and the misses too — those that spurred us forward, that helped us to hone our skills, the ways we work, our artistic language. Through all these years, I’ve tried to take the pulse of happenings, to express what stirs me personally as it may also each of you. The works of my own artistic path have formed a human connection. I’ve been able to perceive the humanity, to see the light in the wondering eyes of children. And so I too am given wonder to see the world and to reach and reveal my deepest soul.

Looking back, these 25 years have been an amazing journey, one that inspires and impels me, and gives me faith in the future. May this journey light the way ahead.

In closing, here are 25 candles to mark so many memorable encounters with individuals, artists and outstanding works. May I light one for each of the following:

Jeff Hall, Francine Arseneault,  Bernard Lagacé, Claude Poissant, Michel Lemieux et Victor Pilon, André Montmorency, Jasmine Dubé, Jacques Prévert, Eugène Ionesco, Lhasa de Sela, Dario Fo, Molière, Berthold Brecht, Lise Vaillancourt, Jocelyn Proulx, André Gingras, Luc Dunberry, Alain Chartrand, Marie-Josée Chartier, Benoit Côté, Ginette Bertrand, Richard Morin,  Arnold Brookhuis and Christine Cyr.

Wishing you a pleasant journey through the pages of this website, and I hope we will cross paths at a creative performance or workshop.

For our 25th Anniversary, a re-creation of BAGNE.

More than 20 years after the original creation of Bagne, co-creators Pierre-Paul Savoie and Jeff Hall revisit their most acclaimed success. Confined in a huge metal structure, two men embrace under the watchful eyes of captivated spectators. In this intense and moving amalgam of dance and theatre, a humanly brutal force transforms to a universal tenderness. The imprisoned beings entwine in raw and sensitive movement. It is a hymn to liberty and the power of love.

In offering this creation to a new generation of male dancers and inviting the first-time collaborators to revisit the work, a fresh reality and timelessness is achieved, infusing the original statement. A re-creation whose universality profoundly touches the audience while being discovered by a new public and new generations.

« Un must et ce, que vous aimiez la danse, le théâtre, la vie… Une œuvre universelle, qui pourrait être présentée absolument partout et toucher à peu près tout le monde.
Chapeau. » Anne-­Marie Lecomte, La Presse (1992), Montréal