{"id":2194,"date":"2010-10-07T21:09:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T03:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2010-10-09T10:19:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T16:19:49","slug":"brian-goes-to-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=2194","title":{"rendered":"Brian goes to Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the culture season begins again. First Billy Bishop at the Citadel and now the start of Brian Webb&#8217;s dance season. <\/p>\n<p>His first show is the Ballet Jazz de Montreal (now know as BJM Danse); a company Leslie and I have seen many times since our university days. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101007-090217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101007-090312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>20 years ago I had my first taste of contemporary dance pulling curtain at the Haar while I was going to Theatre Production at MacEwan. Brian Webb and one of his female dancers came up to me to ask the time and they were what I considered at the time, completely naked. Tonight&#8217;s show open with a gorgeous pas de deux where both dancers were bare from the waist up and it brought my whole dance universe full circle. Only now it&#8217;s just beauty for effect, not simply nakedness&#8230; mostly&#8230; I guess. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the culture season begins again. First Billy Bishop at the Citadel and now the start of Brian Webb&#8217;s dance season. His first show is the Ballet Jazz de Montreal (now know as BJM Danse); a company Leslie and I have seen many times since our university days. 20 years ago I had my first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}