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| Title | Category: Press |
| ID | 15090 |
| Date | January 13, 2025 |
| Title | The Big Easy: In its 40th year, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks salutes New Orleans’ roots of the genre |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/the-big-easy-in-its-40th-year-decidedly-jazz-danceworks-salutes-new-orleans-roots-of-the-genre/ |
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| Author | Eric Volmers - Calgary Herald |
| Summary | Kimberly Cooper was in New Orleans last May when she took in a show by jazz trumpeter and vocalist Marla Dixon. Of all the places on Earth, the Big Easy might be the hardest city for a performer to stand out when playing jazz. Cooper has been the artistic director since 2013 of Calgary’s Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, a company formed 40 years ago to keep the spirit of jazz alive and... |
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| ID | 15044 |
| Date | January 8, 2025 |
| Title | DJD turns 40 and goes to the High Performance Rodeo to celebrate with Call and Response |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/djd-turns-40-and-goes-to-the-high-performance-rodeo-to-celebrate-with-call-and-response/ |
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| Author | By Stephen Hunt - CTV News Calgary |
| Summary | Decidedly Jazz Danceworks (DJD) turns 40 in 2025 and they’re kicking off a milestone birthday by throwing a celebration of movement at the High Performance Rodeo. All you need to know about their season-opening show Call and Response, opening Jan. 16, is that it features the Falling Bullets Jazz Band from New Orleans. That means a performance that the company described in a media release as a “toe-tapping, foot stomping, finger... |
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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 | 13464 |
| Date | February 17, 2024 |
| Title | ‘Phenomenal musicians working in concert with extraordinary dance artists’ |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/phenomenal-musicians-working-in-concert-with-extraordinary-dance-artists/ |
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| Author | Jane Dixon - The Calgary Herald |
| Summary | See Malpaso Dance Company with Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra on March 7 at Arts Commons On March 7, Cuba’s Malpaso Dance Company will bring the rhythms of the “dancing island” to the Jack Singer Concert Hall at Arts Commons for an exclusive Canadian engagement. Accompanied live by the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, led by multi-Grammy Award-winning composer Arturo O’Farrill, audiences can expect a night of sizzling energy. Established... |
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| ID | 13473 |
| Date | February 15, 2024 |
| Title | Malpaso Dance Company Ignites the Stage |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/malpaso-dance-company-ignites-the-stage/ |
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| Author | Stephen Hunt - Arts Commons Blog |
| Summary | The performing arts mean different things to different cultures. In Eastern Europe for decades, theatre was a medium that was feared by those in power, because of its ability to use metaphor to send a political message. For Cuban Fernando Sáez, one of the co-founders of Malpaso Dance Company, dance and live music mean a little more there than they do here. They’re tools of change. “We are an island,... |
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| ID | 13174 |
| Date | January 18, 2024 |
| Title | New DJD show Olio features dancer-choreographed performance |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/new-djd-show-olio-features-dancer-choreographed-performance/ |
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| Author | Stephen Hunt - CTV News Calgary |
| Summary | Decidedly Jazz Danceworks’ new show takes the people up front – the dancers – and transforms them into the architects of the show. Olio, which opens Thursday night at the DJD Dance Centre as part of the 2024 High Performance Rodeo, is even more of a collaborative effort than usual for the jazz dance company, which was founded in Calgary in 1984. Rather than being choreographed by a single individual, Olio is a... |
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| ID | 13215 |
| Date | January 16, 2024 |
| Title | CKUA – Traffic Jams – Kimberley Cooper Discusses Olio |
| Url | https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/ckua-traffic-jams-kimberley-cooper-discusses-olio/ |
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| Author | Heather Close |
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