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DANCE

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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ART

A Taste for Montreal Visuals

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AGAC, Extreme Gestures

by Mical Moser
07.03.2011

Forty-eight hours to make a splash during New York’s annual March art fairs isn’t long. But Quebec’s Contemporary Art Galleries Association (AGAC) did it with Extreme Gestures, a mid-town exhibition of thirteen contemporary visual artists from Montreal.

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THEATRE

Off-Off-The-Wall Broadway Xmas

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My Christmas in New York, Nouveau Théâtre Ste. Catherine

by Sarah Fletcher
18.12.2009

“Fuck Broadway. The real show is here, on this avenue,” says struggling poet Adam Manduwksi in My Christmas in New York, an improvisational play on at Théâtre Ste. Catherine. Set on East 27th and 2nd Avenue and peppered with impromptu acting, a colourful cast brings to life a vision of the holidays alternately bleak and [...]

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NOTEBOOK

New York Eats Cockroach

by Marianne Ackerman
20.11.2009

Those Americans, they really do harbour and lately can’t seem to hide their neurotic relationship with Canada. Witness the Sunday Times pan of Rawi Hage’s novel Cockroach. Here’s my theory: New York literati are so fearful of offending each other in important publications that, given a chance to tear into a Canadian, they go nuts.

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