Starting in January, jigging lessons will be offered in Val-d’Or. These classes will be taught by Club Gigus, founded in 2019, and will be held at the Music and Dance Center.
The co-founder of the Gigus club, Yaëlle Azoulay, explains that there are no prerequisites for the courses, both those intended for children and those reserved for adults.
You only need to bring a good pair of shoes, running shoesnot tap dancing or Irish step dancing shoes. Really just a comfortable shoe with a non-slip sole, which will be able to slide well on the floor
she explains.
Yaëlle Azoulay, a jig for more than 20 years, believes that it will be necessary to go further than the symbolic designation to ensure the sustainability of the jig. (Archive photo)
Website by Yaëlle Azoulay / Vitor Munhoz
« There are basic steps and after that we add all kinds of other little steps, flourishes, more complex things and we start to form sentences with the words. »
Yaëlle Azoulay emphasizes that jigging is an art articulated around improvisation.
The objective is to be able to be in communion, to communicate with music, with musicians, traditional music, the violin, the accordion. What we try to teach at Club Gigus is really to have the tools, the basic steps, the vocabulary, and then to be able to improvise, to be able to jig on traditional music because that is the objective of traditional dances. We are really in communication with the music live ideally
she observes.
The course offering in Val-d’Or is in addition to those already offered by Club Gigus in Val-David, Montreal, Quebec, Lévis, Rimouski and Carleton-sur-Mer.
