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Usine C

Method and Madness

Cheap Lecture + The Cow Piece; Counting to One Hundred + One Flute Note, Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion, Usine C

by Cerys Wilson
14.05.2013

Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion were in Montreal this past weekend for a blink-and-you’ll miss-it run of Cheap Lecture and The Cow Piece, followed by Counting to One Hundred and One Flute Note. Packaged by Usine C as Quatre Créations in two nights, the individual works seemed shakily whole – a feeling reinforced at the close of each by Burrows and Fargion’s look of bemused surprise that they had, once more, pulled it off.

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DANCE

Three Dances, Two Hands

Danse Danse, Usine C and Danse Carpe Diem

by Cerys Wilson
26.04.2013

With only a few performances left in its run, Michele Anne de Mey and Jaco van Dormael’s spectacular Kiss and Cry at Usine C is not to be missed. De Mey has worked frequently with fellow Belgian choreographer and dancer Anne Teresa de Keesmaeker, who performed in Montreal last spring during the FTA festival. Here, the full range of de Mey’s fluency, elegance and wit is concentrated in her hands, and in the hands of fellow performer Gregory Grosjean, the four acting out the work’s five love stories on a set of Playmobil dollhouses and toy train sets.

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DANCE

So Long, Farewell

Goodbye, Mélanie Demers/Mayday, Usine C, to March 22

by Cerys Wilson
21.03.2013

“It’s over!” Jacques Poulin-Denis yells at the small press group scattered about Usine C’s large auditorium Tuesday night. “Au Revoir! Auf Wiedersehen! Good Bye!” Nobody moves. “What? What, you wanna dance? Get the fuck out of here!” Silence.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Simply Moss-some Photography

Montreal camera queen Susan Moss offers gritty Osheaga retrospective

by Jamie O'Meara
21.07.2011

Susan Moss calls her own shots. And many a shot those are. The affable and genuinely lovely lady photographer has been a fixture on the Montreal concert scene for going on 20 years, visually chronicling the rise, the fall and the redemption of many of the most influential musicians ever to grace a Montreal stage.

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DANCE

Cannonball Muse

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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DANCE

And It’s Beer, Beer, Beer!

BIG 3RD EPISODE, USINE C

by Tao Fei
28.01.2010

Auteur cinema does not put us in a resting, gaping state; beer commercials do. French-Austrian performance group Superamas explores the straight-to-the-bloodstream effects of mass media by producing a freshly-squeezed concentrate from the familiar pulp of romantic comedies, soap operas, commercials and music videos.

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