Barbara Bourget is a dancer, choreographer and the artistic director of Kokoro Dance Theatre Society in Vancouver, British Columbia . She is known for her butoh performances and choreography. Her work has been described as difficult, punishing and uncompromising. She was born in Port Alberni, British Columbia in 1950.
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10-1713: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Barbara Bourget Bourget began tap dancing at age four and went on to take ballet class at age nine. From 1961 to 1967 she studied with Mara McBirney and from 1967 to 1969 Bourget was a scholarship student at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School . Her teachers at the Royal Winnipeg School included Arnold Spohr , Gwynne Ashton, Jean McKenzie and Maria Fay. She danced with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens from 1969 to 1972 and then began working in modern dance . Bourget performed from 1974 to 1978 in Mauryne Allan's Mountain Dance Theatre in Vancouver. In 1975, encouraged by Allan she choreographed "Trio for Three Women". She met Jay Hirabayashi in 1979 when both were dancing with Paula Ross's company and they married in 1981. In 1982 Bourget and Hirabayashi with Peter Bingham , Ahmed Hassan, Lola MacLaughlin, Jennifer Mascall, and Peter Ryan, co-founded Experimental Dance and Music (EDAM). They left EDAM after four years to co-found Kokoro Dance . In 1987 she performed Rage , choreographed by her husband Jay Hirabayashi. Since forming Kokoro Dance, Barbara has choreographed over one hundred dances. These include Dis/Zero (1987), Episode in Blue: A Cantata from Hell (1988), Zero to
15-627: The Power (1989), Crime Against Grace (2001), and Sunyata . In 1998 Kokoro Dance began producing the Vancouver International Dance Festival . Initially as a platform for butoh performance, the festival expanded across genres over time. Bourget's 2012 work A Simple Life was created as an exploration of her decades-long career in dance. The piano score accompanying the work was composed her son Joe Hirabayashi. This article about someone associated with
20-574: The art of ballet is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a Canadian associated with the art of dance is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kokoro Dance Kokoro Dance (also known as Kokoro Dance Theatre Society ) is one of Canada 's leading butoh dance troupes. Based in Vancouver , British Columbia , it was founded in 1986 by artistic directors Barbara Bourget and Japanese Canadian Jay Hirabayashi . They have performed across Canada , in
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