Tag Archive for the term: agora de la danse

Un départ tout en douceur. The house lights are still on when the dancers walk onstage one by one, looking into the audience. They’re not being confrontational, but simply acknowledging our presence. They sit down on the benches on each side of the stage or on the one stool, as if they too are casually [...]

It’s darkness that reveals the world to us. Light only blinds us. It is that behind which bodies are hidden. Or so it is in New Yorker Gina Gibney’s View Partially Obstructed. Above the stage hangs a grid consisting of five by five squares, and from this grid hangs movable rectangular frames; some empty, appearing [...]

Two years ago, I had to credit choreographer Hélène Blackburn for making me experience something through art that I had never experienced before (and, for that matter, have not since): I was filled with such anxiety that my hands and feet were freezing. Maybe not the most desirable reaction for most people, who might be [...]

It’s a work with little theatricality that Chantal Lamirande presents with Projet X this week at Agora de la danse. Rather, she makes dance, lighting, and music her focus. Though the show is split in four tableaux, there is a sharp contrast between the first one and those that follow.
Lamirande herself opens this quatuor with [...]

Fabrice Lambert follows the Belaza sisters, at Tangente, in a smaller room that actually would have benefited Belaza. Once again, there are definitely links to be made between the two artists’ works, the most obvious being the minimalist movement.
Lambert focuses on solos, presenting two pieces from L’Abécédaire, an ambitious 26-part project inspired by the 26 [...]

Despite its title, Nacera Belaza’s Le Cri is a rather quiet work, at least when it comes to movement. It’s the work that opens the second and final week of Destination Danse at Agora de la danse, and I must admit that the best was not kept for last.
Le Cri does have a lot going [...]

Seeing Pierre Rigal’s Press less than an hour after seeing Julie Nioche’s Matter, it’s hard not to draw comparisons between the two works. Not that one has to look very far to do so. Both could have easily been gimmicky, but successfully manage to transform their concept into a full-fledged world.
Pierre Rigal is the sole [...]

Once again, this year Agora de la danse is the one to officially get the ball rolling with the new dance season. They’re not going halfway about it either. They’re opening with their Destination Danse program where, over two weeks, four choreographers from a specific corner of the world come to give us a glimpse [...]

The dance season is about to start and, once again, I’ve handpicked the ten shows that are sure to make me change my sheets in anticipation.
From October 15 to 18, Deborah Dunn follows up her hilarious yet visually striking parody of melodrama, Nocturnes, with a solo created for Nadine Sures. You can catch La fille [...]

It’s hard to talk about a Catherine Tardif show. It’s because, with her, everything is on the surface. This is not a criticism. On the contrary, in her case, it’s a good thing. It’s that she has nothing to hide. For Le Show Poche, the floor of Agora de la danse has been striped down [...]