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ID 12704
Date November 3, 2023
Title Our Community – Serenella Sol
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/our-community-serenella-sol/
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Summary This month’s blog features the fantastic Serenella Sol! Serenella is a Calgary-based dancer, choreographer and the Artistic Director of Ballet Bodies YYC. She started dancing ballet at the age of three in Maracaibo, Venezuela. In 2007, she moved to Canada, where she studied ballet and contemporary in Vancouver and Calgary. In 2013, she graduated from the University of Calgary with a BA in Political Science and a Minor in Dance....
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ID 11889
Date August 31, 2023
Title Our Community – Ashley Brodeur
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/our-community-ashley-brodeur/
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Summary This month’s Our Community blog features the delightful Ashley Brodeur. Manager of Performing Arts at the National accessArts Centre (NaAC) and Creator and Director of Maven Movement, providing professional level performance and training opportunities on an equitable scale has been Ashley’s focus for the past 8 years. With professional performance credits that include Culture Shock Washington, D.C., the Dubai Shopping Festival, The Fringe Festival, TIFF, BravoFact!, collaborations with brands such...
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ID 11748
Date July 28, 2023
Title Our Community – Wunmi Idowu
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/our-community-wunmi-idowu/
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Summary This month’s Our Community blog features the wonderful Wunmi Idowu. Wunmi is an award-winning dancer, choreographer, instructor, performer, and producer and the Founder and Director of Woezo Africa Music & Dance Theatre Inc. Since 2006, Woezo Africa has been passionately dedicated to bringing the history of African culture to the masses through traditional and modern modes of performing arts, including dance, music, theatre and storytelling. Her community outreach work with...
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ID 11604
Date June 22, 2023
Title Our Community – Nicole Andrea Pemberton
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/our-community-nicole-andrea-pemberton/
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Summary This month’s Our Community blog features the captivating Nicole Andrea Pemberton. Nicole is a dance artist, mentor, choreographer, health entrepreneur and educator who has performed professionally nationally in Canada, New York and Trinidad and Tobago. Her lineage comes from the islands of Antigua/Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, and the countries of England and Canada. She has taught and facilitated movement experiences for over 100,000 kids and adults and counting. She...
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ID 11041
Date May 17, 2023
Title Our Community – Lisa La Touche
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/our-community-lisa-la-touche/
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Summary At DJD, we pride ourselves on having so many incredible people who share our space with us. We want to highlight these people who are a part of our family and make our community whole. This monthly blog series will focus on the artists themselves and celebrate their incredible accomplishments. We couldn’t think of a better way to kick it off than with Lisa La Touche! As a proud Canadian...
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ID 11223
Date May 3, 2023
Title Discover Nervous Systems – An Interview with Production Manager Sarah Minor
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/discover-nervous-systems-an-interview-with-production-manager-sarah-minor/
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Summary Sarah Minor is the Production Manager for DJD and is coming up on her one year anniversary in this role! Prior to being at DJD she could be found in the role of Company Manager at Calgary Opera. Sarah was brought to the performing arts through Stage Management, she worked as a Stage Manager for many years on projects with Lunchbox Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Theatre Calgary, Stage West Dinner...
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ID 11129
Date April 25, 2023
Title Discover Nervous Systems – An Interview with Composer & Musical Director Carsten Rubeling
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/discover-nervous-systems-an-interview-with-composer-musical-director-carsten-rubeling/
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Summary 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 music from jazz and classical music to hip hop, salsa and almost everything in between.  He has released two albums, VOLK//PEOPLE (2019) and Headwaters (2022) on Inner Ocean Records. Carsten has performed and recorded with Sean Jones, Ingrid Jensen, Seamus Blake, Brian Lynch, Brad Turner, David Braid, Nick Fraser,...
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ID 10635
Date January 24, 2023
Title Discover Old/New/Borrowed/Blue – An Interview with Founder in Residence and Choreographer Vicki Adams Willis
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/discover-old-new-borrowed-blue-an-interview-with-founder-in-residence-and-choreographer-vicki-adams-willis/
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Summary DJD Founder in Residence Vicki Adams Willis carries on a family tradition that began when her mother, Alice Murdoch Adams, opened one of Calgary’s first dance schools in the 1920s. In addition to teaching and choreographing for countless local and international organizations, Vicki founded the Jazz Division in UCalgary’s Faculty of Fine Arts, Program of Dance in 1978 and co-founded Decidedly Jazz Danceworks in 1984 where she continued her role...
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ID 10567
Date January 18, 2023
Title Discover Old/New/Borrowed/Blue – An Interview with Choreographer Marie France Forcier
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/discover-old-new-borrowed-blue-an-interview-with-choreographer-marie-france-forcier/
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Summary Marie France Forcier, MFA, is a choreographer, performer, writer, and pedagogue of western contemporary dance forms. Through studio work, public performance, and community initiatives, she researches at the intersection of somatic practices, trauma studies and choreography. Her body of creative and performance work has been presented on platforms of various scales across four continents. An Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Calgary’s School of Creative and Performing Arts...
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ID 9602
Date May 27, 2022
Title People of DJD: Jocelyn Mah
Url https://www.decidedlyjazz.com/blog/people-of-djd-jocelyn-mah/
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Summary Meet Jocelyn! Jocelyn is part of our Professional Training Program and will be performing in Footprints OPENING TONIGHT May 27th & 28th. Read below to see what she had to say about her experience in the program and preparing for Footprints! 1. What is your favourite class you’ve taken as part of the PTP Program? Vicki Adams Willis’ jazz improvisation classes have been most conducive to my growth as a jazz...
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