Running time: 23 min.

• Choreography: Lesley Telford
• Music: Henry Purcell, King Arthur; John Cage, Apartment House; Johann Sebastian Bach and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Glen Gould Gathering; John Cage, Four 2 (Latvian Radio Choir); Abel Carl Friedrich, Prelude;Henry Purcell, Oedipus
• Costumes: Lesley Telford
• Scenography: Yoko Seyama
• Lighting: Marc Parent

Vancouver-based artist Lesley Telford, who spent years with the Nederland Dans Theater, presents the piece Beguile. The choreographer explores interconnectivity, the influence we have on others and the influence others have on our individuality. Are we really independent beings?

Running time: 6 min.

• Choreography: Edgar Zendejas

• Music: Caetano Veloso, arrangements by Aude Seguin

• Jury and public awards at the Mondor Excellence Challenge in Trois-Rivières.

Montreal-based Mexican choreographer Edgar Zendejas presents a personal duet strongly inspired by the lyrics and everlasting voice of Caetano Veloso. Sonata de Luna is a dance under the moon of two beings where support is constant and mutual. Every relationship, either with a father, a brother, a friend, a partner or a spiritual guide; brings to us a message to help us in our endless life transitions.

Duration: 13 min.

• Choreography: Marcos Morau with Lorena Nogal and Marina Rodriguez
• Music: Tío Sabas by Paco de Lucía, De Querer a No Querer by Miguel Poveda, Farruca by José Galvan
• Stage and Costumes Design: Marcos Morau and La Veronal
• Lighting Design: Marcos Morau, La Veronal and Marc Parent

Fukuoka presents the essence of language that choreographer Marcos Morau has been developing over the last few years with his company,La Veronal. The search for a refined form: without renouncing the inorganic and the grotesque, the rhythmic and the arrhythmic, the beautiful and the monstrous. For this piece, Morau brings a flamenco influence together with an abstract energy, rejecting any narrative discourse and allowing the two performers to completely drown in the shape. The contradiction of flamenco and contemporary forms, the clash of two worlds that nourish and complement each other: an exercise in style that brings the public closer to the universe of the choreographer.

Duration: 38 min.

• Choreography: Vanesa Garcia-Ribala Montoya
• Music: Dyaoulé Pemba, Moonlight Benjamin, Toto Bissainthe
• Costume Design: Minh Vincent Quach / Kakuachimoto
• Scenography: Nalo Soyini Bruce
• Lighting: Marc Parent
• Video Designer: Chopin Joseph – OXBOLAB

Les Grands Ballets principal dancer Vanesa G.R. Montoya, is staging a rich and dense work entitled From the Sun to the Moon. The central theme of this premiere is the coexistence of multiple realities in this world, producing at one and the same time constant struggle and limitless hope.

Ballet Master: Marina Villaneuva

1st Cast: Thu. 28, Fri. 29 and Sat. 30 avril at 8:00 p.m.
Maude SABOURIN, Étienne DELORME, Célestin BOUTIN, Catherine TOUPIN, André SANTOS, Éline MALÈGUE, Hamilton NIEH, Tatiana LEREBOURS, Tetyana MARTYANOVA, Kiara FELDER, Anya NESVITAYLO, Rachele BURIASSI

2nd Cast: Sat, April 30th and Sun. May 1st at 2:00 p.m.
Yui SUGAWARA, Jean-Sébastien COUTURE, Giuseppe CANALE, Alexandra ECCLES, Angel VIZCAINO, Catherine TOUPIN, Stefano RUSSIELLO, Kiara FLAVIN, Éline MALÈGUE, Emma GARAU CIMA, Sahra MAIRA, Myriam SIMON

Ballet Master: Marina Villaneuva

1st Cast: Thu., 28, Fri., 29 and Sat., 30 April at 8 p.m.
Hamilton Nieh and Enno KLEINEHANDING

2nd Cast: Sat., April 30th and Sun., May 1st at 2 p.m.
Stefano RUSSIELLO and Giuseppe CANALE

Ballet Master: Marina Villanueva

1st Cast: Thu. 28, Fri. 29 and Sat. 30 avril at 8:00 p.m.
Anna ISHII and Yui SUGAWARA

2nd Cast: Sat, April 30th and Sun. May 1st at 2:00 p.m.
Emma GARAU CIMA and Éline MALÈGUE

Ballet Master: Hervé Courtain

SCENE I: Prologue and "Marasa"
Théodore POUBEAU, Hamilton NIEH, André SANTOS, Antoine BERTRAN, Jean-Sébastien COUTURE, Stephen SATTERFIELD, Angel VIZCAINO, Stefano RUSSIELLO, James LYTTLE, Éline MALÈGUE, Tetyana MARTYANOVA, Yui SUGAWARA, Tatiana LEREBOURS, Rose TRAHAN
Duo, les jumeaux de Marasa Étienne DELORME, Vanesa G.R. MONTOYA

SCENE II: "Legba"
André SANTOS, Jean-Sébastien COUTURE, Hamilton NIEH, François GAGNÉ, Stephen SATTERFIELD, Angel VIZCAINO, Stefano RUSSIELLO, James LYTTLE, Antoine BERTRAN

SCENE III: "AYITIK" et "NAGO"
Melih MERTEL, Kiara FLAVIN, Roddy DOBLE, Sahra MAIRA, Enno KLEINEHANDING, Emma GARAU CIMA, Graeme FUHRMAN, Anna ISHII

SCENE IV: CAPITAINE AMERICA
Étienne DELORME, Hamilton NIEH, André SANTOS, James LYTTLE, Stephen SATTERFIELD, Théodore POUBEAU

SCENE V: "DAMBLAAH"
Tatiana LEREBOURS, Éline MALÈGUE, Tetyana MARTYANOVA, Yui SUGAWARA, Rose TRAHAN, Angel VIZCAINO, Jean-Sébastien COUTURE, Stefano RUSSIELLO, Antoine BERTRAN,François GAGNÉ, Stephen SATTERFIELD, James LYTTLE, Étienne DELORME, Hamilton NIEH, André SANTOS, Vanesa G.R. MONTOYA

SCENE VI: "LE MAL DU PAYS"
Anna ISHII, Stephen SATTERFIELD, Stefano RUSSIELLO, James LYTTLE

SCENE VII: FINALE "YANVALOU"
Étienne DELORME, Hamilton NIEH, André SANTOS, Angel VIZCAINO, Emma GARAU CIMA, Enno KLEINEHANDING, Melih MERTEL, Kiara FLAVIN, Roddy DOBLE, Sahra MAIRA, Graeme FUHRMAN, Anna ISHII, Jean-Sébastien COUTURE, Stephen SATTERFIELD, Antoine BERTRAN, James LYTTLE, Stefano RUSSIELLO, Éline MALÈGUE, Yui SUGAWARA, Tatiana LEREBOURS, Rose TRAHAN, Tetyana MARTYANOVA