Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur 2017 BOOKING NOW OPEN

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In partnership with

CWT Victor Travel

101 - 8800 Dufferin Street, Concord, ON L4K 0C5

TICO Ontario registration #1892647

presents

Ballet Festival in

Saint-Sauveur (Quebec)

4 – 6 August 2017

3 days, 2 nights

2 ballet performances

escorted by

Canada's Word Lady,

Katherine Barber

BOOKING NOW OPEN! SIGNUP DEADLINE JUNE 28

International mega-star Friedemann Vogel of the Stuttgart Ballet, appearing this summer at the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur

 One of the hottest names in international ballet, Friedemann Vogel, will be joining our very own Canadian star Guillaume Côté in a performance of Béjart's powerful Song of a Wayfarer, set to Mahler's song cycle, in what is sure to be one of many highlights of this weekend in the beautiful Laurentians. English National Ballet's Cesar Corrales will also be showing off some virtuoso fireworks. PLUS! a great mixed program from Les Grands Ballets Canadiens

Friday August 4 to Sunday August 6

 
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal
Black Milk (Ohad Naharin), the hilarious Ballet 101 (Éric Gauthier) 
Death and the Maiden, (Stephan Thoss) (excerpt), 
Falling Angels (Jiří Kylián)

https://youtu.be/zejxMmZ4g1U

Night of Stars
Friedemann Vogel, Stuttgart Ballet
Guillaume Côté, The National Ballet of Canada
Cesar Corrales and Katja Khaniukova, English National Ballet
Calley Skalnik and Laurynas Vejalis, The National Ballet of Canada
Matt Foley and Drew Jacoby, Independent artists

https://youtu.be/6vjEEDfUjhQ

https://youtu.be/5wKsH1MRdiY

  

Friday 4 August

Make your own way to Dorval Via Rail Station (5 minutes by taxi from Dorval airport) by 2 pm where our coach meets you for the one-hour trip Saint-Sauveur. Check in to the Hotel Le Versailles, 10 minutes walk from the performance venue. Evening: 3-course dinner followed by : Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal: Black Milk (Ohad Naharin), Ballet 101 (Éric Gauthier), Death and the Maiden, (Stephan Thoss) (excerpt), Falling Angels (Jiří Kylián)

Saturday 5 August

Day at leisure. Shop at the factory outlet mall, take a calèche ride, or stroll along picturesque rue Principale and enjoy the shops and bakeries. Evening performance Night of Stars: Friedemann Vogel, Stuttgart Ballet; Guillaume Côté, The National Ballet of Canada; Cesar Corrales and Katja Khaniukova, English National Ballet; Calley Skalnik and Laurynas Vejalis, The National Ballet of Canada; Matt Foley and Drew Jacoby, Independent artists

Sunday 6 August

Morning: Check out of hotel and depart St-Sauveur by private coach for Dorval Via Rail station.

 

Total Package

double occupancy

CA$799 per person

single occupancy

CA$999

All prices valid till 28 June 2017

You may use RBC reward points or RBC certificates towards the purchase of any or all components of these travel arrangements

REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT DUE DATE: 28 JUNE 2017

TO BOOK:

Call Lucy Nati at CWT Victor Travel, (416) 736-6010 x. 234,

toll-free 1-866-699-0199

Basic package price includes:

2 nights twin share accommodation in the Hotel Le Versailles, 10 minutes walk from the performance venue

Return transportation by private coach between Dorval Via Rail Station and Saint-Sauveur

Internet access

Seats for 2 ballets

1 dinner, including water, 1 glass wine, beer or soft drink, and tea or coffee

Not included:

Airfare or trainfare to and from Montreal

Meals and transfers not specifically mentioned in this itinerary

Items of a personal nature,

e.g. phone calls

Cancellation insurance

Hospital/medical insurance

Terms and Conditions:

Non-refundable payment in full of CA$799 per person (double occupancy) or CA$999 (single occupancy) is required at time of registration, no later than 28 June 2017*.

Optional cancellation and hospital/medical insurance are also payable at this time.

All cancellations must be received in writing at CWT Victor Travel to the attention of Lucy Nati (lucy@cwtvictortravel.ca)

Manulife out-of-province health insurance (for Ontario residents holding an OHIP card) and trip cancellation insurance are available through Victor Travel and STRONGLY RECOMMENDED. Price will vary according to birthdate. Premium must accompany the deposit and is non-refundable.

Total package price is fully non-refundable

This program must be sold as a package.We cannot offer individual components separately, break the package into shorter installments, or offer an “accommodation only” option.

Mobility issues should be discussed with the travel agent before registering.

Travellers wishing to share will be put in touch with one another.

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phone: 416.693.4496

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Gauthier Dance at Saint-Sauveur

The last program of my three-day ballet bash at FASS was Gauthier Dance from Stuttgart. I was particularly looking forward to this as I have known its director, Eric Gauthier, originally from Montreal, since he joined the Stuttgart Ballet in 1996 and have admired his determination and success with his small dance group in Stuttgart. Before the show, Eric gave a very charming introduction where he explained that he wants to make dance accessible to everyone, that you don't have to be a connoisseur of classical ballet to appreciate dancing, and that even the businessman in suit and tie who thinks he doesn't like dance when his wife drags him along to a performance will come away realizing that really he does. In particular, there is a tendency in German contemporary dance to be somewhat angst-ridden and impenetrable, with little sense of the fun that is evident in many Gauthier Dance productions.
Eric explained that the program was called "Lucky Seven" because of the seven very different pieces in the program, which are, as he said, like the seven colours of the rainbow in their variety. In each, the company of 8 (including Gauthier) proved to be both strong dancers and effective communicators.
My favourite was Hans van Manen's The Old Man and Me, depicting a relationship from seduction to separation. Although he originally choreographed the piece for Netherlands Dans Theater III (a company of dancers over 40), van Manen has allowed Gauthier to perform the male role "on condition that I dance it like a young man, not an old man, because I am still young". In the first section, the beautiful Isabelle Pollet-Villard, clad in an elegant purple velvet gown, tries all her teasing seductive wiles on Gauthier, who seems to remain unmoved. Then in the second section, danced to Stravinsky's Circus Polka (which coincidentally I had seen just two weeks before performed by young ballet students in Jerome Robbins' version), the sparks between the two fly. In the last section, set to the elegiac, yearning music of Mozart's 23rd Piano Concerto, the relationship becomes bittersweet. In a sort of stop frame effect, the stage lights go on and off, with the couple finding themselves further apart each time the lights come on again,and finally exiting opposite sides of the stage as the last melancholy and beautiful strains of the music fade away.
In a world premiere by Mauro Bigonzetti, Pietra Viva, the title "living stone" seemed to refer to the fact that dance is like a breathing sculpture. The two dancers achieved remarkable feats of balance while leaning on one another, stepping on one another's feet, and in two striking instances having Anna Suheyla Harms standing on William Moragas's chest while he, supine, rotated around.
Eric also gave us a fascinating insight into the solo he choreographed for himself, Carlito. 10 months ago his son was born, and he recounts how he sat in the delivery room holding his wife's hand during 15 hours of labour. The oval shaped room made him think of a bull ring, and his situation seemed to him to be like that of a matador, fighting to get the baby out. It occurred to him that flamenco would be a good dance style to depict the strains of labour.
The piece starts with him unfolding a towel as the delivery room nurses apparently do in German hospitals, this towel being used to wrap the baby when it is born. At the end, the flamenco song turns into a few bars of Brahms Lullaby, and Gauthier artfully wraps the towel around his forearm and cradles it like a baby.
Shutters Shut by NDT choreographers Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon is a duet set to a recording by Gertrude Stein of one of her poems. Though Lightfoot Leon created the role on a male and female dancer, when Paul Lightfoot saw the two couples that Gauthier had sent to learn the roles, he liked the male dancers so much that he felt it would work best on them. As a result, we see Armando Braswell and Rosario Guerra perform the piece, their rapid movements reflecting Stein's machine-gun recitation.
You can see snippets of all of the above pieces on Gauthier Dance's latest trailer (which also includes Kylian's Sechs Tanze, which wasn't on the Saint-Sauveur program):

The program finished with the humorous Orchestra of Wolves, in which an orchestra conductor comes to a bad end when conducting the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The idea for this piece came from a discussion Eric had with the Stuttgart Ballet's music director about what it is like conducting such a powerful piece of music. The conductor said it was terrifying, feeling that the musicians will massacre him if he makes the slightest mistake with the movement of his baton. Gauthier therefore depicts the conductor as a bird facing a pack of wolves ready to devour him. You can see snippets of it in this video: