TEMECULA — Temecula Presents opens its 2009-2010 dance season with the first international dance company to visit the Old Town Temecula Community Theater: BJM DANSE/Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal.

Performances will take place October 16 and 17.

Hailing from Canada, BJM DANSE is a contemporary jazz company that has been reinventing itself since 1972.

Founded by pioneering Quebec dance artists Geneviève Salbaing, Eva Von Gencsy and Eddy Toussaint, this company strives to keep the improvisational spirit of jazz alive by intertwining classic styles of dance with fresh, hip choreographers....