In this podcast, National Ballet of Canada acclaimed Principal dancer and award successful Associate Choreographer Guillaume Côté talks about his 22 yr profession with the corporate that has fostered his drive to create roles and new ballets and carry out the world over with corporations together with La Scala Theatre Ballet, English National Ballet, The Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, The Hamburg Ballet and Stuttgart Ballet.
Guillaume can also be the Artistic Director of Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur – one of many largest summer season dance festivals in Canada. This yr’s twenty ninth pageant is forging forward and responding to the challenges of covid by launching a brand new undertaking referred to as ‘A Shared Solitude‘, with 20 artists, 20 creations, forming 1 voice. Each week from 5 July works shall be launched on-line from artists together with:
- Daina Ashbee on a rating by Alejandra Odgers carried out by flautist Caroline Séguin
- Marie Chouinard on a rating by Louis Dufort carried out by percussionist Alexandre Lavoie
- Guillaume Côté with Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the piano on a rating by Éric Champagne
- Anne Plamondon on a rating by Cléo Palacio-Quintin carried out by trombonist Patrick Richer
- Crazy Smooth on a rating by Marc Hyland carried out by clarinetist Simon Aldrich
Listen to Guillaume discuss concerning the how the 20 artists have created works throughout lockdown, life as a principal dancer, his love of music, his ardour for ballet, being a dad and his partnership along with his spouse, fellow principal dancer Heather Ogden.
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