Margie Gillis, Louise Lecavalier, Marie Chouinard, José Navas… The big names in Canadian dance are now staying at the same address with the launch of a brand new webcasting platform dedicated to dance art.
The Regards Hybrides Collection brings together more than 60 Canadian works produced over the past six decades. These filmed choreographies, some of which have become legendary over the years, are accompanied here by several interviews and unpublished texts. This is an opportunity to discover several artisans who have marked local dance and who, for some, continue to do so.
Under the artistic direction of Priscilla Guy, the Regards Hybrides Collection relies on a mix of works, combining key works unknown to new generations with recent works that tackle the current challenges posed by the interaction between dance and new technologies.
Each choreography is accompanied by exclusive complementary content, such as short video interviews, virtual behind-the-scenes tours or in-depth interviews in audio format.
“Dance is such an ephemeral art, it is essential to make the great works of local choreographers last through projects like the Collection Regards Hybrides. For a choreographer, cinema is a unique way to bring the public’s eye to a precise point of the action and to reveal dance in all its humanity,” said choreographer Ginette Laurin in a press release.
Access to this platform is offered in the form of an annual subscription at a cost of $55 (plus taxes). As the distribution on the web takes place without territorial limits, the persons in charge of the Collection thus hope to make known the talents from here on an international scale.