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Active as a jazz and improvising performer Alex Bellegarde collaborates with a range of Montreal based artists. Working projects include multidisciplinary events such as Espace Son, Poetry & Jazz and Live painting & music.  

Poetry & Jazz:  collaborations with poets and poetesses…

Poetry from Three Americas 2008:  with poets Pedro Serrano, Andrea Montiel, Mexico, Andrea Moorhead, USA,  Patrice Desbiens, Nathalie Watteyne, Jean Sioui  François Hébert, Quebec.   Alex Bellegarde  double bass,  Yvon Plouffe percussion.
La Nuit laurentienne de la poésie 2007: a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the death of Quebec's national poet Gaston Miron. 12 poets with the musicians David Gauthier and Alex Bellegarde.Théâtre du Marais, Val Morin QC.
Exit Revue 2005:10 yrs of poetry: 24 poets with musicians Alex Bellegarde, Daniel Lessard, Alain Mercure, Lion d'Or Montreal
Festival Voix d'Amériques 2005: a bilingual event dedicated to spoken word and performance literature.
Poetry & Jazz 2004: L'Off Festival de Jazz de Montréal.

Espace Son:  exchanges, interaction and brainstorming between talents are central to each unique event.  Musicians animate an atmosphere that attracts creative interplay.  Sounds and chromatic gestures evolve within a space in continual metamorphose…

Impro 2008:  Alex Bellegarde Trio, Montreal Museum of Fne Arts
Spontaneous Creation Module 2007: François Richard, Claude Lamothe, Michel Dubeau, Pierre Tanguay, Alex Bellegarde Cabaret Lion d'Or, Montreal
Les Projets de la Baleine (Whale project) 2006: Sylvie Chenard, Alex Bellegarde, Antoine Berthiaume, Rémi Leclerc, Gabi Macalusco, Maryse Poulin, Andrée Préfontaine, Benjamin Proulx-Mathers, Rachel Therrien
Rencontre Fortuite 2006. 
Mix Sessions/Free Radical 2005: Sly Cormier, Alex Bellegarde, Jessica Vigneault, Vincent Didier, Marc André Morvan, Nadav Nirenberg,  Society for Arts & Technology , Montreal
Espace Olibrius 2005: 'A baroque, refined and poetic universe', Montreal
Journées de la Culture 2004: Alex Bellegarde Trio,  Galerie les Nouveaux Barbares, Montreal.
Espace Son 2004: Alex Bellegarde Trio with visual artist Daniel Hémond,  Galerie les Nouveaux Barbares Montreal.

Live painting & music: an immersion into the creative process with painters and musicians. A series of eight sessions…

Alex Bellegarde & guests: Le Va et Vient, Montréal, 2002,2003

Émergence Énergie:  transmedia actuelle is a multidisciplinary concept, an alliance between various art forms; live painting, poetry and dance, animated by music.  The performance: A sensory voyage and a complete immersion into a world of dreams, questions and spontaneous creation. A universe of emerging energy…

Distillery Jazz Festival 2004 Toronto, Ontario.
Participating artists MRJ with guests Stéphane Despatie (poetry), Éve.C. Fontaine (dance) and Janice Taylor (live painting).
La Maison de la Culture d’Ahuntsic 2004: Participating artists MRJ with guests José Acquelin (poetry), Éve.C. Fontaine (dance) and Janice Taylor (live painting)
Bravo TV  26 June 2004:  MRJ  Recorded at La Chapelle du Bon Pasteur, Montréal, 2003.
Le Cabaret du Plateau 2003:  Participating artists MRJ with Guests  José Acquelin (poetry), Éve.C. Fontaine (dance) and Annie Brunette (live painting)

Conte et nous en jazz:  tales from the past, jazz and visual arts…

Chez Léo 2004: Andre Lemelin (story teller) Serge Lavoie, Marie Claude Lamoureux , Alex Bellegarde (jazz) Ginette Lavoie (artist) Montréal.

Vernissage:  collaborations with visual artists…

Expo Cuba: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Yoel Diaz (piano), Alex Bellegarde (double bass), 2008
Expo Duo Different Natures: recent works by Johane Bergeron & Isabelle Champagne, Rafik Matta (piano). Alex Bellegarde (double bass), Montreal, 2004
Works: Tony Gaudette (painter), Johan Batier (photographer) Trio Alex Bellegarde, Galerie Les Nouveaux Barbares, Montréal  2004
Works: Pierre Nepveu.  Bass solo by Alex Bellegarde, Galerie Zeruchi, Montreal 2002
Works: Pippilotti Rist 2000, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - with Trio Sonia Johnson
 

IMPRO-ESPACE OLIBRIUS

Projection OF 4 short animated films (without dialogue) by STEPHEN & TIMOTHY QUAY
Street of crocodiles
Rehearsals for extinct anatomies
Dramolet
Are we still married ?
Improvised sounds by
Alex Bellegarde, Guido Del Fabbro, Francis Rossignol

ÉMERGENCE ÉNERGIE