Tag Archive for the term: agora de la danse

Sarah Chase’s Sur les glaces du Labrador, photo by Valerie Simmons

A bit over a year ago, British Columbia’s Sarah Chase came to Montreal for the Festival TransAmériques to present her duo A Certain Braided History with Andrea Nann, as well as The Disappearance of Right and Left, a solo for Peggy Baker. By the end [...]

Early on in Martin Bélanger’s Grande théorie unifiée, one of the dancers exclaims “We need to talk about everything,” the others replying “And we will!” Of course, it might be a bit too much ground to cover for a show that’s less than two hours, but Bélanger and his collaborators certainly try their best.
The show [...]

Walls of white curtains, a white table, a black stool. It is in this simple, but luminous space that Michèle Noiret’s Chambre Blanche takes place. It is the Belgian choreographer’s first show in Montreal, and hopefully not her last.

Michèle Noiret’s Chambre Blanche, photo by Sergine Laloux

At first, the music is barely audible. The four female [...]

It’s the end of the school year and, as is now tradition, UQAM dance students are hard at work to present the choreography of one of their own. Caroline Dusseault, this year’s selected choreographer, is well aware that the bar is high; last year, two of her classmates ended their run with a sold-out show [...]

Every once in a while, there comes a show to remind me why I love contemporary dance. Last night, Lina Cruz’s K-5 was that show. Completely insane, yet tangibly following its own internal logic, it manages to constantly maintain our interest because it is simply impossible to anticipate where it will go from one moment [...]

Jocelyne Montpetit’s Faune, photo by Andrea Lopez

Some mornings you get off on the wrong foot. And on some of those days, it seems it’s the wrong foot that keeps dragging you forward. It’s the way I felt when I went to see Jocelyne Montpetit’s solo Faune at l’Agora de la danse this week. The piece [...]

It’s not easy following Dave St-Pierre. After going to see Un peu de tendresse, bordel de merde for the second time this week, the following night I went to see Gioconda Barbuto and Emily Molnar’s Lifelines at Agora de la danse. It was going from a night of excessive risk-taking to a work that played [...]

It’s always with great anticipation that one awaits a new work from Vancouver’s Kidd Pivot. This is particularly revealing given that the dance company has only really been presenting work for less than five years. Still, before Lost Action even started at Agora de la danse earlier this week, extra dates had been added for [...]

A few weeks ago, one of my dance dates told me that she expects dance to either make her laugh or cry, that anything else is useless to her. While I don’t think I’m anywhere near as extreme as she is, I understand what she means; I do expect dance (or any art form for [...]

The start of the dance season is fast approaching and again this year looks particularly enticing. Going through the fall schedule, I handpicked ten shows that you should watch out for.
From September 13 to 15, Quebec choreographer Benoît Lachambre comes back from Europe for the North American premiere of his latest creation, Lugares Comunes, at [...]