Name: Alexis Chartrand & Nic Gareiss - Fiddle & Dance
Uploaded: 2024-09-13T21:24:24Z
Description: One of Dance Magazine's 25 to Watch, Gareiss is joined by Québécois fiddler Alexis Chartrand for a medley of clog, flatfoot, and step dance!

Alexis Chartrand & Nic Gareiss - Fiddle & Dance

The Irish Cultural Centre

One of Dance Magazine's 25 to Watch, Gareiss is joined by Québécois fiddler Alexis Chartrand for a medley of clog, flatfoot, and step dance!

Irish Cultural Center

Percussive dancer Nic Gareiss and fiddler Alexis Chartrand meld unparalleled virtuosity with an introspective sensibility. The two artists trace, with disarming spontaneity, their path across French Canadian, Appalachian and Irish traditions. Propelled by traditional fiddle tunes and percussive steps, Gareiss and Chartrand explore, with palpable pleasure, the sharing of sounds and gestures, blurring the lines between music and dance, melody and movement. Their concerts are a privileged opportunity to witness the contemporaneity of fiddle and dance traditions through the singular creativity of Nic Gareiss’ step dancing, and Alexis Chartrand’s unique fiddling on the baroque violin. One of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch," Nic Gareiss (he/they) has been hailed by the New York Times for his "dexterous melding of Irish and Appalachian dance" and called "the most inventive and expressive step dancer on the scene” by the Boston Herald. They reimagine movement as a musical practice, recasting dance as a medium that appeals to both eyes and ears. Born, raised, and residing in what some people call Michigan, Gareiss engages many percussive dance traditions, weaving together a singular dance practice marked by his love of clog, flatfoot, and step dance footwork vocabulary; improvisation; and musical collaboration. Gareiss received the 2020 Michigan Heritage Award, the region’s highest distinction bestowed on traditional artists. They have performed in seventeen countries including at London's Barbican Centre, the Irish National Concert Hall, the Munich Philharmonic, and the Kennedy Center and collaborated with The Chieftains, The Gloaming, Phil Wiggins, Colin Dunne, Liz Carroll, Bruce Molsky, Sandy Silva, Bill Frisell, Alasdair Fraser, and Natalie Haas. Nic's graduate thesis was the first piece of scholarship to center the experience of LGBTQ Irish step dancers, he holds a MA in Ethnochoreology from the University of Limerick. <a href="https://shared.outlook.inky.com/link?domain=www.nicgareiss.com&t=h.eJxFjUEOgyAUBa9iWLeAVkVceRX4IJJiNV8MaZrevdLYdDvvZeZFdgykL8gU49ozllKiDw9OofXbRmGZyaUg9_zw6LfpCnuIO1pmAJcU7HP44pPSBR2rbnXd6YZz3oxtO4I0UkkLVgtdqrLRrBTVsXEuJK26rLdZf1TpmR3crHz4xU1e_-T9AZuWOJQ.MEYCIQCrM06G-KGVqtc6C03yZHKCEq-rnj3VAu_CdjHsUuY8uwIhAMei4AOT2z--78L0BJzJzPADKpdzgwVe_egwbWjWtlSe" title="https://shared.outlook.inky.com/link?domain=www.nicgareiss.com&t=h.eJxFjUEOgyAUBa9iWLeAVkVceRX4IJJiNV8MaZrevdLYdDvvZeZFdgykL8gU49ozllKiDw9OofXbRmGZyaUg9_zw6LfpCnuIO1pmAJcU7HP44pPSBR2rbnXd6YZz3oxtO4I0UkkLVgtdqrLRrBTVsXEuJK26rLdZf1TpmR3crHz4xU1e_-T9AZuWOJQ.MEYCIQCrM06G-KGVqtc6C03yZHKCEq-rnj3VAu_CdjHsUuY8uwIhAMei4AOT2z--78L0BJzJzPADKpdzgwVe_egwbWjWtlSe" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.nicgareiss.com</a> / @nicgareisslfi Montréal fiddler Alexis Chartrand (he/him) has been active in the Québécois traditional music scene for many years. He is known for his energetic accompaniment of step dancing and social dances, frequently collaborating with movers including baroque dancer Anne-Marie Gardette and traditional dancer and caller Pierre Chartrand. His 2017 album with multi-instrumentalist Nicolas Babineau (fiddle, guitar), Gigues à 2 faces, was nominated for Best Traditional Album at the 2018 Canadian Folk Music Awards, while their 2019 album un beau ptit son has brought their performances across Québec, Canada, New England, and Europe. Alexis’ research into the intersections between traditional and baroque violin styles has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Montréal Arts Council, and the Centre des Musiciens du Monde. This work has led to the introduction of the baroque violin into the practice of Québécois folklore, and to new interactions between the worlds of traditional and early musics. His teaching has been appreciated at CAMMAC, Sutton (Québec), Boxwood Festival (Nova Scotia), and Carleton University (Ontario), among others, where he has given workshops on fiddle, traditional repertoire and traditional music history. <a href="https://shared.outlook.inky.com/link?domain=www.agchartrand.com&t=h.eJxFjVsOwiAUBbfS8K1Aa1_0q1u5XCgl0tbc0hBj3LtiNP7OnMx5sIMCGwo2x3gbhEgpcXA4A0WC1XDcFnYq2DVPPPl9PuMR4kFWGKQtBXsfP_hL-UZOVJe67nUjpWymtp1QGQXKotWdLqFstCi76u2k7BSv-py3Ob965A7I-n0f3QI-_M5Ntn_yfAHY0zjr.MEQCIEH7LO1dXwWKqSnVZHC71-MX5dvZh8B8lcjl1aP1JH4aAiBmZW2HOX6A4WWhxQXTiElIw4mopkR06cErput87X3RYw" title="https://shared.outlook.inky.com/link?domain=www.agchartrand.com&t=h.eJxFjVsOwiAUBbfS8K1Aa1_0q1u5XCgl0tbc0hBj3LtiNP7OnMx5sIMCGwo2x3gbhEgpcXA4A0WC1XDcFnYq2DVPPPl9PuMR4kFWGKQtBXsfP_hL-UZOVJe67nUjpWymtp1QGQXKotWdLqFstCi76u2k7BSv-py3Ob965A7I-n0f3QI-_M5Ntn_yfAHY0zjr.MEQCIEH7LO1dXwWKqSnVZHC71-MX5dvZh8B8lcjl1aP1JH4aAiBmZW2HOX6A4WWhxQXTiElIw4mopkR06cErput87X3RYw" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.agchartrand.com</a> / @agchartrandTickets will be available at the door for $25

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