L'église de Saint-Sauveur |
rue Principale |
Every year I like attending a dance festival in a small resort town in the Laurentians north of Montreal. Like almost all small towns in Quebec, this one has a name starting with "Saint": Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts. Nearby are St-Hippolyte, Ste-Adele, Ste-Agathe, and St-Jovite. Typically, if the founder of a town wanted to honour his wife Agathe, he would name the town after her patron saint. There are so many of these in Quebec that gazetteers of provincial maps have to subdivide the "S" section into "St-A", "Ste-A", "St-B", and so on.
But did you know that there is a word specifically meaning "Place name derived from a saint's name"? Here it is, to impress your friends with the next time you visit Quebec: hagiotoponym, from the Greek hagios (holy), topos (place), and onoma (name).
As you can see in the pictures above, Saint-Sauveur looks like everyone's idea of a picturesque Québécois village, and it makes for a great summer break where you can see world-class dancers.
In fact, why not join me on a trip there this summer. Here's the preliminary info:
Please let me know ASAP (toursenlair@gmail.com) if you would be interested. This is not a commitment, just an expression of interest.
Wednesday
August 10 - Saturday August 13, 2 performances (plus one optional)
Guillaume
Côté
and dancers of the National Ballet of Canada:
The
Story of us
(Marcelo Gomes, World Premiere, with Heather
Ogden)
Venom
(Côté)
The
Sleeping Beauty
prince's solo
Dance
me to the end of love (Côté)
Solos
and pas de deux from the classical, neoclassical and contemporary
repertoires:
- Guillaume Côté – National Ballet of Canada
- Heather Ogden – National Ballet of Canada
- Misty Copeland – American Ballet Theatre
- Blaine Hoven - American Ballet Theatre
- Nehemiah Kish – The Royal Ballet
- Yuhui Choe – The Royal Ballet
- Anne Plamondon - Independent artist
- more dancers TBA
Optional
performance:
Louise
Lecavalier
and Frédéric
Tavernini
in So
Blue.
I am looking at the following package:
Coach
transport from Toronto (or Montreal airport or Dorval train station) to Saint-Sauveur including shuttle between
hotel and performance venue
Lunch
on the way to Saint-Sauveur and back
1
dinner in Saint-Sauveur
3
nights hotel
Ballet
tickets
Day
trip into Montreal from Saint-Sauveur
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re "gazetteers of provincial maps have to subdivide the "S" section into "St A", "St B" and so on."
ReplyDeleteAnd followed by another series: Ste A, Ste B, and so on.