Café Bohème
Synopsis
Café Bohème is a dance video starring Gioconda Barbuto and Bernard Martin. Filmed many years before screen-inside-a-screen filmmaking was common, the ‘live’ dancers watch and then begin to interact with the filmed dancers (another version of themselves).
Set to the iconic aria from Bizet’s opera Carmen, the scene takes place in a fictional café, two strangers attracted to each other. Live and onscreen – their inner thoughts? – become entwined.
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Cast
Gioconda Barbuto
Gioconda Barbuto is an internationally esteemed Italian-Canadian dancer and choreographer. She was a long-time member of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, dancing with the company for sixteen years, and of Nederlands Dans Theater III for eight years. Recognized for her exceptional versatility and magnetism as a performer and soloist, she boldly embodied work by influential ballet and contemporary choreographers including Kylián, Naharin, Balanchine, Fokine, Limón, van Manen, Duato, Nault, Morris, Tudor, and theatre director Robert Wilson.
During her company career, she worked with key Canadian creators such as Judith Marcuse, Brian Macdonald, Christopher House, Ginette Laurin, Paul-André Fortier, Jeanne Renaud, and James Kudelka. Her artistic synergy with Jiří Kylián led to a notable body of work, including Birth Day and Car Men, two celebrated dance films.
For a full profile, visit: https://www.giocondabarbuto.com/profile.html
Bernard Martin
For more than 20 years, Bernard Martin has demonstrated his brilliant technique and versatility with companies and choreographers of international renown. With Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal (1991–1997), he performed repertoire works including Balanchine and contemporary pieces by James Kudelka, Mark Morris, Nacho Duato, Jiří Kylián and Ohad Naharin.
With Montréal-Danse (1997–2001), he danced in works by José Navas, Dominique Porte and Paula de Vasconcelos, and also collaborated on Eironos with the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault. Bernard Martin was a member of Édouard Lock’s La La La Human Steps from 2001 to 2009, performing in major cultural capitals worldwide. He had lead roles in Amjad, Amélia (both the ballet and the film), and Les Boréades, an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau choreographed by Lock and presented at the Opéra de Paris.
He has also collaborated with Le Carré des Lombes. Since 2009, Bernard Martin has taught ballet and performance to contemporary dancers at L’École de danse contemporaine de Montréal.
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Production Info
Directed by Gary Marcuse and Betsy Carson
Length: 7 minutes
Released: 1997
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