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Dancing with Myself

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Le Bancs d’Essai Internationaux dance festival at Tangente May 10-12

by Kallee Lins
14.05.2012

Le Bancs d’Essai Internationaux brings together dancers and choreographers from around the world to put the newest generation of dance on display. The biannual tour ended its Montreal run Saturday night before heading to Europe. Though the performers came from diverse regions throughout Italy, Canada, France, The Netherlands, and Wales, a common thread ran through the night. Multimedia, once a novel addition to put dance-based pieces in the often provocative territory of interdisciplinary performance, has become the status quo. The question of adding a video backdrop now seems as necessary a consideration as the number of dancers onstage.

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Time to Danse

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Festival Quebec Danse ending a great week on a high note

by Kallee Lins
29.04.2012

There is still time to get your toes tapping, arms swinging, or body bouncing as part of the first annual Québec Danse festival. Studios all over Montreal and 10 other cities in the province have opened their doors since Monday for free classes in everything from contemporary dance and street jazz, to bharata natyam and Afro-Brazilian.

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It’s All about You

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Crystal Pite’s Kidd Pivot contemporary dance company gets into your head with The You Show

by Jamie O'Meara
23.03.2012

Is The You Show, the latest from internationally renowned contemporary Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, perfect? No. Should you see it? Emphatically, yes. The You Show, presented by Pite’s Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM (and breath…) dance company, is the follow-up to 2009’s hugely entertaining Dark Matters work. And where the richly and deeply theatrical Dark Matters [...]

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Uncommon Creation

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The Bouge d’ici dance festival’s Common Space performance series brims with innovation

by Kati Belanger
18.01.2012

The promise of variety and the fresh energy of emerging choreographers sold out last year’s edition of Common Space at the Bouge d’ici dance festival. In its fourth year, the Common Space showcase seeks to shine the spotlight on a large group of up-and-coming choreographers here in Montreal, while providing them with resources to develop [...]

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Dance in Their Pants

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The Bouge d’ici dance festival celebrates its third year with an expanded lineup of workshops and performance for both diehard dance fans and the simply inquisitive

by Kati Belanger
12.01.2012

Montreal’s most approachable dance festival is back for its third edition. Bouge d’ici is the brainchild of choreographer and St-Ambroise Fringe Festival director Amy Blackmore. The festival aims to showcase emerging dance talent and reach out to new audiences by offering a wide range of performances and workshops.

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A Call to Arms

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Choreographer Paul-André Fortier’s remount of Bras de Plomb wins on some fronts, loses on others

by Jamie O'Meara
27.10.2011

As is oft observed, dance audiences in Montreal are among the most generous in the performing arts, especially when it comes to rewarding the presentation of established work by celebrated creators. It’s a standing ovation you can pretty much take to the bank. So the polite applause that greeted the conclusion of the remount of [...]

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Tough to be a Man, Tough to be a Woman

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Complexe des genres, Théâtre La Chapelle

by Tao Fei
17.09.2011

If there were a yearbook made for Quebec’s next wave of dance, choreographer Virginie Brunelle might be named ‘Most Likely To Succeed’.  With her third and latest full-length work, Complexe des genres, 29-year-old Brunelle cements her local darling status and confirms her talents as a serious dancemaker destined for bigger stages.  Complexe des genres received [...]

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Unlocking Lock

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La La La Human Steps, Salle Wilfrid Pelletier

by Tao Fei
07.05.2011

After a four-year wait since Édouard Lock’s last creation, hyped-up Montreal dancegoers streamed into Salle Wilfrid Pelletier on Thursday night for the North American premiere of Lock’s New Work, featuring international ballet star Diana Vishneva.

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Cannonball Muse

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Louise Lecavalier / Fou Glorieux, Usine C

by Tao Fei
30.04.2011

Louise Lecavalier’s ropy musculature, punk androgyny and ballistic barrel rolls defined Édouard Lock’s choreographic signature for nearly two decades. Now, 12 years after retiring as the platinum-maned icon of his company La La La Human Steps, Lecavalier still astonishes as a dancer of rare and singular presence; a force of nature, simply.

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A Kinetic Onslaught

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Entity, Théâtre Maisonneuve

by Tao Fei
12.02.2011

Dubbed by critics as the current rock star of international ballet, 40-year-old British dancemaker Wayne McGregor is leaving more than just his dancers breathless. With a high-speed, wholly distinctive movement language and commissions by the world’s leading companies piled high, Britain’s top contemporary choreographer definitely has his mojo in full swing.

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FTA Offers A Full Card

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Highlights, Festival Transamériques

by Tao Fei
27.05.2010

Montreal’s biggest dance theatre festival, Festival TransAmériques, asserts itself among the city’s slew of summer events with a hearty, adventurous fourth edition with several exceptional dance offerings.

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Title-Rich, Meaning-Poor

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DIS/(SOL/VE)R, Centre Pierre-Péladeau

by Tao Fei
08.05.2010

Just when you thought the age of bad post-modern titles was really, really over, veteran Canadian choreographer Christopher House returns to the Danse Danse series with Dis/(sol/ve)r, a recent work for Toronto Dance Theatre. The name is misleading, puzzling even (as is the involvement of a dramaturge), because the hour-long dance is an exceedingly legible [...]

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Technical Brilliance, Emotional Depth

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SOIRÉE KYLIÁN, THÉÂTRE MAISONNEUVE

by Tao Fei
25.03.2010

There is probably no living European choreographer more internationally beloved than Jiri Kylián. His non-narrative, dramatic ballets blending classical technique and modern expressionism are season favourites and repertory mainstays of established companies around the world. Les Grands Ballets Canadiens presents three of the influential Czech choreographer’s works in its Soirée Kylián at Théâtre Maisonneuve.

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Prickly Nest

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DO ANIMALS CRY, USINE C

by Tao Fei
25.02.2010

In-the-know North American audiences do not miss an opportunity to see a Meg Stuart work, and her latest Do Animals Cry reminds why. Making their first Montreal appearance in over four years, Stuart’s Belgium-based company Damaged Goods goes to the volatile core of private family life to wrestle out two hours of visceral, unruly physical [...]

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Check The Backseat

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ROADKILL, CINQUIÈME SALLE

by Tao Fei
12.02.2010

Disclaimer: roadkill is actually, seriously scary. Cinematic horror is not the most popular choreographic pursuit, but collaborative Brisbane-based company Splintergroup suggests it’s a frontier in contemporary dance worth visiting. With roadkill, their dance theatre thriller set in Australia’s mythic outback, Splintergroup makes its Montreal debut to conclude Cinquième Salle’s three-part Australian dance series.

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