
QUI SOMMES NOUS?
Elle anime, avec son conjoint, des activités de danses anglaises à Montréal et divers autres projets orientés vers la danse. Elle est chercheuse et spécialiste en danses bourgeoises du XIXème siècle à la mode autant en Europe qu'au Québec et aux États-Unis.
Il
a collaboré avec plusieurs organismes, à titre de professeur, d'animateur ou
d'administrateur, à la promotion de la danse traditionnelle: Commissions
scolaires du Québec, Service des loisirs de la Ville de Montréal, Fédération
des Loisirs-Danse du Québec, Expo-67, Terre des Hommes, Conseil Canadien des
Arts Populaires, Folklore Canada International, Société du Patrimoine
d'Expression du Québec, Comité Organisateur des Jeux Olympiques de Montréal
(1976), Danse-Éducation-Folklore du Québec, Association Montréalaise des Arts
et Traditions Populaires, Conseil Québécois du Patrimoine Vivant, Danse
Traditionnelle Québec, Hill and Hollow (États-Unis). Il
a aussi collaboré, à la Commission des Écoles de Montréal, à la réalisation
de deux projets de musique, danses et chants traditionnels québécois et
internationaux pour les enfants des écoles primaires.
Chercheur,
il a participé à
la conception, à la réalisation et à l'évaluation de deux projets de
recherche expérimentale sur l'utilisation de la danse traditionnelle en éducation.
Il a siégé au comité consultatif de la danse au primaire et au secondaire du
Ministère de l'Éducation du Québec. Il a aussi participé à une recherche (étude
de cas) sur la situation des arts populaires traditionnels d'interprétation au
Canada, pour le Secrétariat d'État au Multiculturalisme du gouvernement du
Canada.
Auteur,
il a rédigé plusieurs textes et collaboré à plusieurs revues: La
Jarnigoine, Le Troubadour, La
revue sans nom ... pour l'instant, La Revue
de l'Association Canadienne du Sport, d'Éducation Physique et de la Récréation,
La Revue des sciences de l'éducation. Il a aussi rédigé
des textes pour le journal Le Devoir,
pour le Dictionnaire de la censure au Québec.
Finalement, il a rédigé, en collaboration, La danse d'inspiration folklorique au primaire.
WHO ARE WE?
Arduina
Alonzo obtained a
bachelor degree in Arts Education (theatre and dance) in 1974 and a master
degree in Theatre Education in 1992. She
worked as a drama and dance teacher for 30 years in high school and other
educational sectors.
She leads
with her husband ECD dances in Montreal and other different dance projects. She
is researching and specializing in French dances of 19th century and lately in
dances of the same period danced in Montréal and Québec.
Involved in
her community, she offers time and energy in different educational and social
projects (theatre, astronomy, photography, and environment).
She loves studying and learning… because knowledge does not have an end.
Her motto is sharing with young and less young everything she loves…
but always with a smile and pleasure.
Michel
Landry is
professor and leader of traditional dances; dance historian. Holder of a
Master's degree in Education sciences, from the University of Quebec in Montreal
(1982). The title of his Master's thesis was "Folk dance: educational value
and teaching strategies."
Since 1963
he has taught and led traditional dance activities in various towns and cities
of Quebec, other parts of Canada and United-States. He has collaborated with several
organizations in the roles of professor, leader, and administrator, in the
promotion of traditional dance: School Boards of Quebec, Leisure Services of the
City of Montréal, Federation of Recreational Dance of Quebec, Expo-67: Land of
Mankind, Canadian Folk Art Council, Folklore Canada International, Society for
the Expressive Patrimony of Quebec, Organizing Committee of the Montreal Olympic
Games (1976), Dance-Education-Folklore of Quebec, Montreal Association of
Popular Arts and Traditions, Quebec Council of Living Patrimony, Cégep du Vieux
Montréal, and Traditional Dance Quebec.
He has also
collaborated, with the Montreal School Board, in bringing forward two projects
of traditional Quebec and international music, dance, and song for children in
primary school. As a researcher he has participated in the conception,
realization, and evaluation of two experimental projects on use of traditional
dance in education. He has sat on a consultative committee of the Quebec
Ministry of Education on dance in primary and secondary schools. He has also
participated in a research project (a case study) on the situation of
traditional popular performing arts, as part of a National Survey of Folkloric
Performing Arts Groups in Canada, for the Secretariat of State for
Multiculturalism of the Government of Canada.
As an
author, he wrote several texts and collaborated on articles in several magazines
and journals: La Jarnigoine, Le Troubadour, La revue sans nom . . . pour
l'instant, the Canadian Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation
and Dance Journal, and La Revue des sciences de l'éducation. He has also
written articles for the journal Le Devoir and for the Dictionary of Censorship
in Quebec. Finally, he wrote, in collaboration, "Dance with folkloric
inspiration in primary school."