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THE CREATION CENTRE
Dance in all its forms
Since its founding in 1984, O Vertigo has been dedicated to dance creation, research, and training, as well as the development of the discipline in all its aspects. With the opening of the Creation Centre (CCOV), the company has reaffirmed its mission and broadened its activities.
As the company's home base and a pole of attraction for the contemporary dance milieu, the CCOV is a flexible and multiform structure designed to meet the creation, research, and training needs of choreographers, dancers, interdisciplinary artists and diverse creators from here and elsewhere. The Centre offers a full and highly diversified program of training and teaching workshops; research labs with multidisciplinary collaborators; creation residencies on a local, national, and international level; and awareness activities for the public. Reconfirming the company's new interdisciplinary focus, choreographer Ginette Laurin's work now includes various kinds of artistic projects: largeand intimatescale dance creations, choreographic installations, video, film, and photography.
In Quebec and more specifically in Montreal, in spite of the effervescence and vitality of the contemporary dance scene, there are very few appropriate sites for the creation of works and the exchange of ideas. The CCOV's purpose is to improve this situation by offering artists access to its resources in an environment provided with optimum conditions for practising the discipline. Inaugurated in January 2005, the Centre is located in the heart of downtown Montreal inside Quebec's largest cultural hub, Place des Arts; the greater part of its space is occupied by the 3,875-sq.-ft-studio, which is equipped with specialized facilities. O Vertigo is presently developing the Centre's activities through joint projects and exchanges with Canadian and international partners.
MISSION
• To promote creation, research, and innovation in contemporary dance and to contribute
to the development of the discipline;
• To produce activities that foster creation and research in contemporary dance to ensure
its promotion and dissemination, encouraging greater public access to it;
• To carry out training activities for professionals and advanced-level students
(international workshops, seminars, master classes, etc.);
• To encourage interdisciplinary projects;
• To offer residencies to choreographers and companies from Canada and abroad;
• To establish a network of local, national, and international partners.
ACTIVITIES
Creation Labs
Devoted to research and creation, O Vertigo's dance labs can be qualified as exploration sessions in diversified forms, with choreographer Ginette Laurin, the company's dancers and collaborators.
Creation Residencies
Every year, the O Vertigo Creation Centre offers residencies that allow choreographers to benefit from the ressources available at the CCOV.
Classes and Workshops
The Centre offers master classes, and creation and training workshops given by renowned guest choreographers from Canada, the United States, and Europe. In addition, O Vertigo offers an annual three-week intensive workshop which attracts an international clientele.
Public Rehearsals
Occasionally, the company opens the studio doors to give a wider public an opportunity to discover the company's current activities.
REALISATIONS
Creation Labs
• Lab no1: Men/Women, Dec. 2004
• Lab no2: Stéphanie Jasmin, 2004
• Lab no3: Wajdi Mouawad, Jan. 2005
• Lab no4: Space/Body, April 2005
architects: Frédérique Harnois et Étienne Côté and visual art artist: PK Langshaw
• Lab no5: The Resonant Body, Nov. 2005
Larsen Lupin
• Lab no6: Body&litterature, April 2006
Stéphanie Jasmin
• Lab no7: Chanti Wadge, June 2006
• Lab no8: Body & Light, September 2006
Pipon
• Lab no9 : Collective Body, March 2007
Jeremy Mimnagh
• Lab no10 : Christian Rizzo, September 2007
Choreographers in Residence
• Chanti Wadge, 2005-2006
• Karine Denault, 2007-2008
Residencies
2004-2005
Danièle Desnoyers, Le Carré des Lombes (March 2005)
2005-2006
Hélène Langevin, Bouge de là (August 2005)
Marie-Claude Poulin et Martin Kusch, kondition pluriel (January 2006)
Lynda Gaudreau, Compagnie de Brune (March 2006)
Estelle Clareton (June 2006)
2006-2007
Frédéric Gravel, La 2e Porte à Gauche (July 2006)
Dana Gingras, Holy Body Tattoo (August 2006)
Emmanuel Jouthe, Danse Carpe Diem (December 2006)
Daniel Léveillé Danse (January 2007)
Martin Bélanger, Productions LAPS (June 2007)
2007-2008
Erin Flynn (July 2007)
Katie Ward (July 2007)
Marie-Julie Asselin, Compagnie de la tourmente (March 2008)
2008-2009
Andrew Tay (July 2008)
Dean Makarenko (July 2008)
Andrew Forester (October 2008)
Anne-Marie Boisvert (March 2009)
Emma Waltraud Howe (March 2009)
2009-2010
Susie Burpee (October 2009)
Gerald Trentham (October 2009)
Frédéric Marier (December 2009)
International Residencies
• Antje Pfundtner, Germany, Dec. 2007
Classes and Workshops
2004-2005
• Butô workshop with choreographer Jocelyne Montpetit, Sept. 2004
• Choreography worshop with Ginette Laurin, Nov. 2004
• Workshop with Andrew de L. Harwood, Jan. 2005
• O Vertigo technique classes, March 2005
• 7th O Vertigo Intensive Workshop, April 2005
2005-2006
• Master classes with Ted Stoffer, dancer and choreographer, Sept. 2005
• Workshop with Andrew de L. Harwood, Feb. 2006
• Regroupement québécois de la danse technique classes, August, September, October, November, December 2005 and March 2006
2006-2007
• Regroupement québécois de la danse technique classes, October, November, December 2006 and January 2007
• O Vertigo technique classes, February to May 2007
• Workshop with Andrew de L. Harwood, April 2007
2007-2008
• 8th O Vertigo Intensive Workshop, August 2007
• O Vertigo technique classes, December 2007 to March 2008
• Regroupement québécois de la danse technique classes, October 2007
2008-2009
• 9th O Vertigo Intensive Workshop, August 2008
• Regroupement québécois de la danse technique classes, February 2009
• technique classes with Isabelle Poirier, April 2009
2009-2010
• 10th O Vertigo Intensive Workshop, August 2009
• Regroupement québécois de la danse technique classes, October, November, and December 2009
• Chi Kung classes with Marie-Ève Nadeau, November 2009
Public Rehearsals
• Passare, Journées de la culture, Sept. 2004
• ANGELs, Journées de la culture, Sept. 2005
• étude #3 pour cordes et poulies, International Dance Day, April 2006
• La Chambre Blanche (re-creation 2008), rehearsals for schools, January, February and September 2008
• Presentation by the O Vertigo Intensive Workshop's dancers, August 2007 and August 2008
• La Vie qui bat, rehearsal for a school, September 2009
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