Multimedia Gallery

Dance performed: Spandy
According to folklorist E.Z. Massicotte, Spandy exclusively originates from the Gaspé shore. Some believe this dance was left by British sailors, while others maintain that the name derives from the verb “to spank” which means to “move rapidly”.

(photo Rainier)
Clog
Performed at the American Bar of the French Pavilion at Expo ‘67.
August 12 1975

This is Les Sortilèges’ interpretation of the well-known legend of Rose Latulipe. Ethonologist Marius Barbeau once told Brian Macdonald that Rose Latulipe predates Giselle. The legend of Rose Latulipe dates back to 1830, while Giselle Premiered in Paris in 1832.

I went to the market
Choreography: Theodor Vasilescu
Popular Concerts at the Maurice-Richard Arena with the Orchestre Métropolitain
August 4 and 5 1992

(photographie : Ormsby K. Ford)
Dance performed: le Valse Lancier.
Rodolphe Guay recorded this version of the Valse Lancier on Bourbonnière Street in Montréal, on the occasion of the 25th wedding anniversairy of Mr. Joseph Paquette and Mrs. Rose Parenteau-Paquette in 1950.

(photo Ormsby K. Ford)
Quagigue

Based on an original concept by Jimmy Di Genova
Number realized in 1976 with Johanne Racine, Sylvie Toupin, Pierre Chartrand and Pierre Toupin.
This medley comprises an English clog, an Irish jig, an American jig and a Quebec gigue.