spine-tingly,
soul-touching sound.
Camerata Xara welcomes you
to our 2011/12 Season.
Claire Leger, scenographer
Claire Leger is an emerging theatre and interdisciplinary arts practitioner based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is the movement and scenography designer as well as a founding member of Camerata Xara Young Women's Choir. She holds an honours undergraduate degree in theatre studies from Dalhousie University and is a graduate of Neptune Theatre's Pre-Professional Training Program. Claire is currently completing an MFA in Interdisciplinary Performance at the University of British Columbia.
Claire focuses primarily on interdisciplinary performance creation, working with both choirs and theatre practitioners. Claire specializes in teaching choral singers how to sing with their whole body, incorporating exercises and concepts from physical theatre, dance, and yoga. She has taught creative movement at the Nova Scotia Choral Federation's "Sing Summer" camps as well as the "Sing with Rajaton" festival in Halifax.
Claire's choral singing experience is extensive and varied, including three years with the Nova Scotia Youth Choir as well as performances at the Atlantic Jazz Festival. In addition, she has worked as assistant director for DMV Theatre Collective and as a dramaturge for productions with Zuppa Theatre Company, DalTheatre, and King's Theatrical Society.
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Xara will join the award-winning Halifax Camerata Singers with artistic director Jeff Joudrey in a family concert of Christmas music on Sunday, Dec. 4, 4 pm at First Baptist Church, Halifax.
Dylan Thomas’s celebrated story, A Child's Christmas in Wales will be woven throughout the performance. The nostalgic and popular story of a snowy Welsh Christmas is told from the view of a child and will be read by John Hancock, a familiar voice from CBC Radio.
The two choirs will present an enchanting selection of seasonal music from Canadian and international composers. Xara will present selections from John Rutter’s Dancing Day, as well as works by Claude Debussy, Samuel Barber, R. Murray Schafer, Finnish composer Heikki Sarmanto, and a Christina Murray arrangement of the traditional Swedish song, Stig in, Lucia, Stig in.
The audience will be invited to join the choirs for a singalong of familiar carols, accompanied by organist Shawn Whynot.
Tickets – $20 regular, $10 student – are available through our Online Ticket Wicket using PayPal or from choir members and at the door.