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| Title | Category: Performances |
| ID | 14107 |
| Date | August 9, 2024 |
| Title | DJD On The Road – Summer 2024 |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/djd-on-the-road/ |
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| Author | kanderson |
| Summary | This summer DJD’s Artistic Director, Kimberley Cooper and two company dancers, Kaja Irwin and Sabrina Naz Comǎnescu were invited to perform and teach in Newport, RI at the inaugural year of Bridging The Gap Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival. Over the years DJD has built a strong relationship with Salve Regina University in Newport. Over the past year Kimberley has been creating a new piece of work on the... |
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| ID | 13888 |
| Date | May 9, 2024 |
| Title | Behind the Scenes with Party Time – A Follow-Up with Costume Designer Hannah Fisher |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-with-party-time-a-follow-up-with-costume-designer-hannah-fisher/ |
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| Author | Heather Close |
| Summary | Now that Party Time is entering its final week at the DJD Dance Centre, we sat down with Costume Designer Hannah Fisher to learn more about the completed pieces that came were created by our wardrobe team, as well as get her thoughts on being a part of this wild performance. Check out the full interview below and click here to check out our first interview with Hannah. |
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| ID | 13827 |
| Date | April 30, 2024 |
| Title | DJD’s Party Time gets the seats shaking in downtown Calgary |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/djds-party-time-gets-the-seats-shaking-in-downtown-calgary/ |
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| Author | Stephen Hunt - CTV News Calgary |
| Summary | Decidedly Jazz Danceworks threw a pretty catchy party Saturday night. The Calgary dance company’s new show Party Time is a kind of celebration of springtime and it was hard not to watch the company’s dancers trace out the steps of a night on the town and feel a little spring in your step, no matter how close we are to the tax filing deadline (Tuesday!). In fact, at DJD’s gorgeous 12th Avenue... |
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| ID | 13820 |
| Date | April 25, 2024 |
| Title | Decidedly Jazz Danceworks discovers its inner party animal with new production |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/decidedly-jazz-danceworks-discovers-its-inner-party-animal-with-new-production/ |
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| Author | Eric Volmers - Calgary Herald |
| Summary | The image of a drunken party-dweller with a lampshade drunkenly perched on their head at a party may seem a bit old-fashioned. Nevertheless, it was one of the ideas — perhaps indirectly — that first inspired Decidedly Jazz Danceworks Kimberly Cooper when it came to choreographing the company’s newest production, Party Time. The piece, set to live music composed by Carsten Rubeling, has a simple premise on the surface: A... |
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| ID | 13816 |
| Date | April 19, 2024 |
| Title | Party Time, new show by Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, aims to be ‘a spectacular spectacle’ |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/party-time-new-show-by-decidedly-jazz-danceworks-aims-to-be-a-spectacular-spectacle/ |
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| Author | Stephen Hunt - CTV News Calgary |
| Summary | Decidedly Jazz Danceworks wants Calgary to celebrate spring with Party Time. That’s not only a state of mind, it’s also the title of the dance company’s new show, which opens Thursday night. The company’s press release describes the show as “a spectacular spectacle about the life of a party with smokin’ hot dance and live music.” It all unfolds over the course of a single evening at a house party,... |
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| ID | 13744 |
| Date | April 18, 2024 |
| Title | CKUA – The Upload with Kate Stevens – Musical Director Carsten Rubeling Discusses Party Time |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/ckua-the-upload-with-kate-stevens-musical-director-carsten-rubeling-discusses-party-time/ |
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| Author | Heather Close |
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| ID | 13695 |
| Date | April 12, 2024 |
| Title | Party Time – Musician Biographies |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/party-time-musician-biographies/ |
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| Author | Heather Close |
| Summary | Carsten Rubeling – Musical Director, Keys, Trombone Carsten Rubeling is one of Canada’s most active and dynamic trombonists and composers. Originally from Rocky Mountain House Alberta, Carsten performs a wide array of styles from jazz and classical music to salsa, hip-hop and nearly everything in between. His recorded works as a leader include VOLK//PEOPLE (2019) and Headwaters (2022), both on Inner Ocean Records. After last year’s Nervous Systems, this is Carsten’s second... |
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| ID | 13691 |
| Date | April 12, 2024 |
| Title | Party Time – Artistic Director’s Message |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/party-time-artistic-directors-message/ |
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| Author | Heather Close |
| Summary | Welcome. Joy and wonder are crucial to our existence. As I and many other people have said, it is the role of the artist to make us think, to lift us up and give us a chance to escape, to say things words can’t. William Parker, a brilliant and prolific jazz artist with whom we have collaborated with a couple of times, once said to me — artists are like... |
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| ID | 13661 |
| Date | April 10, 2024 |
| Title | Behind the Scenes with Party Time – Interview with Costume Designer Hannah Fisher |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-with-party-time-interview-with-costume-designer-hannah-fisher/ |
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| Author | Heather Close |
| Summary | Party Time Costume Designer Hannah Fisher is a Prairie designer, visual storyteller and creator whose work spans performance mediums like dance, circus, drag and theatre. Heavily influenced by nature, memoir writing, the idea of smallness, “street” and the residual grit of body and memory, her work explores the sensibilities between colour, texture and form. Hannah’s artistic voice grew from a background of visual art at Emily Carr University of Art... |
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| ID | 13191 |
| Date | January 23, 2024 |
| Title | Behind the Scenes with Olio – Interview with Costume Designer Hannah Fisher |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-with-olio-interview-with-costume-designer-hannah-fisher/ |
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| Author | Heather Close |
| Summary | Olio Costume Designer Hannah Fisher is a Prairie designer, visual storyteller and creator whose work spans performance mediums like dance, circus, drag and theatre. Heavily influenced by nature, memoir writing, the idea of smallness, “street” and the residual grit of body and memory, her work explores the sensibilities between colour, texture and form. Hannah’s artistic voice grew from a background of visual art at Emily Carr University of Art and... |
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