by Kathleen Smith The only way to teach someone a show-stopping duet like Itzik Galili’s Mono Lisa is to break it down into bite-size chunks. And that’s just what I’m watching in the ground- floor studio of Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal downtown on Sherbrooke Street: Céline Cassone, her new partner Yosmell Calderón and a
by Robin J. Miller What a difference a day makes. On the first night of Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal’s two-night stop last February in Victoria, British Columbia, they performed the program as announced: Rodrigo Pederneiras’ Rouge, followed by Itzik Galili’s Mono Lisa and Andonis Foniadakis’ Kosmos. An injury that first night, however, meant the