Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie - Dance company L.A. Premiere! November 10, 2007

COLEMAN LEMIEUX & COMPAGNIE presents “In Paradisum” featuring the work of James Kudelka.

Adults: $35– Students: $20

Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie, Montreal-based dance company founded by internationally renowned dancers/choreographers Bill Coleman and Laurence Lemieux, will be performing for the first time in Los Angeles, in the intimate setting of Theatre Raymond Kabbaz.

Composed of 11 of Canada’s finest dancers, this extraordinary company brings to life “In Paradisum”; a program highlighting the work of former National Ballet of Canada choreographer James Kudelka, recognized as one of North America’s foremost dance artist and for his remarkable talent in combining classical tradition and modern movement.

The performance will feature a revival of Kudelka’s masterful contemporary ballet Fifteen Heterosexual Duets (originally created for Toronto Dance Theatre), set to Beethoven's “Kreutzer” Sonata, winner of a Dora Mavor Moore Award and praised as “a jewel” by the New York Times. The work explores “amorous emotion from passion to tenderness to humor” (Times Argus) and features duets that are “remarkable for their fluency and variety” (The Globe and Mail). The program will also include Kudelka’s Soudain, l’hiver dernier, a stunning and troubling male duet, that leaves the spectator "spellbound by the emotional drama on the stage" (The Gazette, Montreal) and In Paradisum an “outpouring of movement invention”, a “maelstrom of anguish, grief and acceptance” (The New York Times), a masterpiece of emotional power and technical brilliance.

The “In Pradisum” dancers: Annik Brissonette, Andrea Boardman, Marc Boivin, Bill Coleman, Andrew Giday, Sasha Ivanochko, Sylvain Lafortune, Laurence Lemieux, Anne Plamondon, Victor Quijada and Mario Radacovsky.

“…the movement was fluid and expressive, and always beautiful… this program proved fascinating…” – Times Argus

“... it was their execution that dazzled - the split-second timing during complex partnering, and the gratifying lightness of low-to-the-ground leaps and lifts” – Joy Goodwin, The New York Sun

“Credit should go to Coleman Lemieux et Compagnie, whose dancers moved easily and wittingly… Mr. Kudelka’s choreography is just as witty, full of ingenious partnering and glancing, perceptive takes on lovers’ foibles and the art of the duet.” – New York Times

Official Website: http://www.theatreraymondkabbaz.com