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| Title | Category: Performances |
| ID | 4012 |
| Date | April 26, 2019 |
| Title | Interview with Sarah Doucet – Double Bill |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/people-of-djd-sarah-doucet-double-bill-edition/ |
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| Author | Heather Close |
| Summary | PEOPLE OF DJD// There are many people that make up the community at the DJD Dance Centre. From artists, administrators, volunteers and beyond, these walls are pulsing with personality. SARAH DOUCET DJD Costume Designer 1.HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WORKING WITH DJD? This is my second show with DJD, the first being Juliet & Romeo. 2. HOW HAS YOUR DANCE CAREER AFFECTED HOW YOU DESIGN COSTUMES? I’m not sure I... |
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| ID | 3943 |
| Date | April 16, 2019 |
| Title | Interview with Myriam Allard – Double Bill |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/people-of-djd-myriam-allard-double-bill-edition/ |
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| Author | Heather Close |
| Summary | PEOPLE OF DJD// There are many people that make up the community at the DJD Dance Centre. From artists, administrators, volunteers and beyond, these walls are pulsing with personality. MYRIAM ALLARD Co-Artistic Director of La Otra Orilla 1. TELL US ABOUT LA OTRA ORILLA Hedi and I go way back. We met in Spain 20 years ago, in Sevilla, where we were both based for a few years. When Hedi... |
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| ID | 3935 |
| Date | April 12, 2019 |
| Title | Interview with Karimah – Double Bill |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/people-of-djd-karimah-double-bill-edition/ |
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| Author | Heather Close |
| Summary | PEOPLE OF DJD// There are many people that make up the community at the DJD Dance Centre. From artists, administrators, volunteers and beyond, these walls are pulsing with personality. KARIMAH Singer, songwriter. Narrator of LOVESTRUCK 1. TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF! I am a singer/songwriter from Edmonton, AB. I sing and write in both English and French. I was on the TV show “The Voice Canada” a.k.a “La Voix” in 2017. Fun... |
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| ID | 3909 |
| Date | April 8, 2019 |
| Title | Double Bill by Kimberley Cooper |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/double-bill-by-kimberley-cooper/ |
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| Author | Heather Close |
| Summary | DOUBLE BILL In 1994, Vicki Adams Willis, founding A.D. of DJD, created a piece called Rhythm Addiction that was one of the most intense dance experiences I ever had the pleasure of being a part of. It focused on jazz and it’s family, specifically different forms of music and dance related to the forming and evolution of jazz. There were different sections of the piece relating to tap, West African and Latin... |
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| ID | 3659 |
| Date | January 16, 2019 |
| Title | Better Get Hit in Your Soul – Audience Feature – Dinou Martlett-Stuart |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/better-get-hit-in-your-soul-dancer-feature-dinou-marlett-stuart/ |
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| Author | Heather Close |
| Summary | DJD’s upcoming production,Better Get Hit in Your Soul is dances inspired by the music, life and times of Charles Mingus. The show was originally mounted in 2013 as Kimberley Cooper’s first work as Artistic Director. The company has changed since it’s premiere. Original cast member, Dinou Marlett-Stuart was a DJD Company Dancer for many years. She has some amazing insight about her experience as a dancer then and likewise as an... |
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| ID | 3633 |
| Date | January 9, 2019 |
| Title | Better Get Hit in Your Soul – Dancer Feature – Shayne Johnson |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/better-get-hit-in-your-soul-dancer-feature-shayne-johnson/ |
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| Author | Heather Close |
| Summary | DJD’s upcoming production, Better Get Hit in Your Soul is dances inspired by the music, life and times of Charles Mingus. The show was originally mounted in 2013 as Kimberley Cooper’s first work as Artistic Director. For company dancer, Shayne Johnson this is also the second time he will be performing the show. A remount is a unique experience that doesn’t always happen. Here’s what he has to say about... |
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| ID | 3627 |
| Date | January 7, 2019 |
| Title | Better Get Hit in Your Soul – Dancer Feature – Catherine Hayward |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/better-get-hit-in-your-soul-dancer-feature-catherine-hayward/ |
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| Author | Heather Close |
| Summary | DJD’s upcoming production, Better Get Hit in Your Soul is dances inspired by the music, life and times of Charles Mingus. The show was originally mounted in 2013 as Kimberley Cooper’s first work as Artistic Director. For company dancer, Catherine Hayward this is also the second time she will be performing the show. A remount is a unique experience that doesn’t always happen. Here’s what she has to say about... |
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| ID | 3549 |
| Date | December 10, 2018 |
| Title | Better Get Hit in Your Soul – Why Charles Mingus? by Kimberley Cooper |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/better-get-hit-in-your-soul-why-charles-mingus-by-kimberley-cooper/ |
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| Author | Heather Close |
| Summary | BETTER GET HIT IN YOUR SOUL Why Charles Mingus? by Kimberley Cooper Charles Mingus was a brilliant bassist, a prolific composer, and although few people know this, he was a great pianist as well. There are many important characters in jazz, but it was his life and music that inspired me to create Better Get Hit in Your Soul in 2013. There is a grandeur to some of his music-... |
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| ID | 2625 |
| Date | April 26, 2018 |
| Title | Kim Cooper’s Notes on MIMIC |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/people-djd-kim-cooper/ |
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| Author | Heather Close |
| Summary | PEOPLE OF DJD// There are many people that make up the community at the DJD Dance Centre. From artists, administrators, volunteers and beyond, these walls are pulsing with personality. KIMBERLEY COOPER DJD Artistic Director 1.WHY PUPPETS? I still feel like I am just starting to discover what puppetry is and can be. I have been going to Old Trout Puppet Workshop performances for many years. My first was Famous... |
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| ID | 2613 |
| Date | April 18, 2018 |
| Title | Message from MIMIC Co-Creators Kimberley Cooper & Peter Balkwill |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/message-mimic-co-creators-kimberley-cooper-peter-balkwill/ |
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| Author | kanderson |
| Summary | It feels like we have been talking about this show for some time. Kim was always going to Old Trout shows and noticing how the performers were in a state of dance connected with the puppets, and Pete has been sneaking into the tap classes at DJD for years trying to quench his desire to be a professional dancer–to be able to move in ways that defy the gravity that... |
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