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| Sheila Lawrence |
Surprise, surprise my dear friend, guess who is here!
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| Vincent Warren at Sheila Lawrence Birthday Party- 1 Photo and copyright: Shahrzad Ghaffari, Westmount. |
Such a great surprise for Sheila Lawrence to open her eyes and see her good friend Vincent Warren whose kindness, happy and charming look in front of her! Their graceful presence magnetised all the us through their fantastic artistic complicity!
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| Vincent Warren at Sheila Lawrence Birthday Party- 2 Photo and copyright: Shahrzad Ghaffari, Westmount. |
Thanks to you dear Vincent & Sheila for your important contribution to the Humanity by your artistic career, through Passion and for the Grace!
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| Vincent Warren at Sheila Lawrence Birthday Party- 3 Photo and copyright: Shahrzad Ghaffari, Westmount. |
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| Vincent Warren at Sheila Lawrence Birthday Party- 4 Photo and copyright: Shahrzad Ghaffari, Westmount. |
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| Vincent Warren at Sheila Lawrence Birthday Party- 5 Photo and copyright: Shahrzad Ghaffari, Westmount. |
Isn't it wonderful!
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| Vincent Warren at Sheila Lawrence Birthday Party- 6 Photo and copyright: Shahrzad Ghaffari, Westmount. |
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http://bibliodanse.ca/Record.htm?idlist=0&record=10130201124929584839
http://www.dcd.ca/general/warrendhm.html
This month our column features the self-taught dance historian, teacher and library curator Vincent Warren. Beginning in 1955, Vincent Warren danced for several ballet companies in the United States, for summer stock shows, and with post-modern choreographers at New York's Judson Church. He spent eighteen years with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens (LGBC), from 1961-1979, and performed many times with Le Groupe de la Place Royale after Jeanne Renaud formed that company in 1966. Following this long and accomplished career, Warren's passion for dance history, which arrived with his interest in ballet when he was a boy, was craftily put to use by LGBC founder Ludmilla Chiriaeff.
Tracing Warren's journey from dancer, to history teacher, to librarian, to curator of what is arguably the country's largest collection of dance publications, is not only inspiring and important to our dance narrative, it is a lesson in taking chances. His willingness to nurture and build (for no pay in the beginning) what is now known as La Bibliothèque de la Danse at the École supérieure de ballet contemporain, his generosity of making personal donations to the library when its future was not always apparent and Mme Chiriaeff's insight to hire someone without a degree or diploma to teach her treasured students the history of their art form, are all chances well taken.
In a day when it seems like you can't do anything without a post-secondary degree or diploma, I think it is important to stop and take stock of Warren's example, and be reminded of what can be accomplished when one's own volition takes them towards unexpected opportunities. And, to remember that grades and a “piece of paper” are secondary to what drives us to learn -- our passion must come first if we are to pass it on to others.
In addition to it all, Mr. Warren is kind and warm. His knowledge of dance and his brimming enthusiasm for it are delightful. Our interview ended with him stating that no one is irreplaceable. I think those who have had the good fortune to work with him along the way would beg to differ.
Enjoy the interview.
Seika.
Pas de deux (English Version) by Norman McLaren - NFB
https://www.nfb.ca/film/pas_de_deux_en
A bare, black set with the back-lit figures of dancers Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren create a dream-like, hypnotic effect. This award-winning film comes ...This Oscar®-nominated short film by Norman McLaren is a cinematic study of the choreography of ballet. A bare, black set with the back-lit figures of dancers Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren create a dream-like, hypnotic effect. This award-winning film comes complete with the visual effects one expects from this master filmmaker.
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This was done before I was even born, and yet I still find the visual effects captivating. Definitely before its time when it was produced and directed. I love the part near the end where the male dancer is spinning the ballerina by one leg and it looks like she is an open umbrella twirling round and round. How clever! Some great moments in movement, imagery and visual effects. I find the marriage between the dancer, movement and the camera hypnotizing… To make this type of film requires patient passion because this is dance made for the camera lens, not for stage, and that is choreography on another level!
Choreography: Ludmilla Chiriaeff
Dancers: Margaret Mercier, Vincent Warren
Dancers: Margaret Mercier, Vincent Warren
http://www.esbq.ca/en/library/histo
HISTORY
In 1964, Ludmilla Chiriaeff announced the establishment of a “National Dance Library.” Two documentary collections left as bequests by dance critic Marcel Valois and by Montreal contemporary dance pioneer Elizabeth Leese served as the basis of the library project. The two collections contained some 300 documents.
In 1979, there were only 358 documents in the collection. Vincent Warren’s arrival at the school breathed new life into the project, as he was an insatiable collector, passionate about dance history. Vincent Warren’s presence also coincided with the school’s move to its new location at the Maison de la danse Ludmilla-Chiriaeff, where the library now has its own space.
In November 2009, the school’s Board of Directors decided to commemorate the remarkable contribution of the man who has been the supporter, promoter and the very soul of the library, by naming it La Bibliothèque de la danse Vincent-Warrent
VINCENT WARREN
Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Vincent Warren started dancing at the age of 17 on a scholarship with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in New York. During the 1960 tour of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, he met Ludmilla Chiriaeff and joined the Montreal company becoming the principal dancer. He also performed with the Groupe de la Place Royale and danced in the United States and Europe.
Warren retired from the stage in 1979 to devote himself to teaching dance history at university and at L’École supérieure. He donated his entire collection of documents on the subject of dance to the library, and was its official curator until 2008.
Vincent Warren has continued to be involved in the dance community, as President of the Dance in Canada Association and of the Regroupement québécois de la danse.
His career has been marked by numerous distinctions, including the Queen’s Jubilee Medal (1976), the Dance in Canada Service Award (1985), the Quebec government’s Prix Denise-Pelletier (1992) and the Order of Canada (2004). In 2010, L’École supérieure’s Board of Directors named the school’s dance library La Bibliothèque de la danse Vincent-Warren in his honour.
http://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/movies/a-man-of-dance-traces-vincent-warrens-steps
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