adesjacques2023-03-17T11:38:36-04:0020/02/2023|
A text by Meggie Cloutier-Hamel, graduating student at the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal (on the left) 64 students from the École supérieure de ballet du Québec (ESBQ) and the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal (EDCM) will dance on the stage of Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier from March 8 to 11, as part of the Danse Danse season. A unifying ...
adesjacques2020-04-23T14:48:58-04:0023/04/2020|
Overview of the Creative Research Course My time at the School was a transformative human and artistic journey. The encounters condensed into these three years make us grow much more than the time spent there physically, since we’re exposed to many lives. Two of my most memorable encounters were in the creative research course. There was Linda Rabin in ...
adesjacques2020-04-01T11:45:17-04:0001/04/2020|
Upon arrival at the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal, each student is already an artist. Everyone comes from different backgrounds and embarks on a shared adventure. The EDCM program provides various opportunities to discover yourself in different contexts. The performance classes were particularly important for my artistic development. In this course, I met several choreographers, all of whom ...
adesjacques2019-11-11T14:23:25-05:0011/11/2019|
My audition experience was much different than what I’d imagined! I had experienced a lot of stress during the weeks and days before the fateful date. On the morning of the audition, I felt a lump in my stomach, an alert state of my entire body and my panting breath. It was only when I saw the other dancers ...
adesjacques2019-09-30T15:38:37-04:0030/09/2019|
At the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal, the niche is training creators/interpreters. This is one aspect that attracted me to the program. It’s clear that creation represents a significant portion of each course. Once I’ve graduated, I hope to have reached a high level of technique, but also to have developed my creativity, since the dance profession is not ...
adesjacques2019-03-19T11:06:32-04:0019/03/2019|
At a certain point in our dance practice, many of us want to pursue higher education in order to develop professionally. However, choosing a school is not always easy. In fact, sometimes we don’t even have a choice. Access to these institutions is extremely limited and selective. To increase our chances of being accepted somewhere, most of us decide to ...