Tag Archive for the term: dance

When you’re spending time in a city other than your own, you always feel an extra degree of connection with, and pride for, your other hometowners who are also representing abroad. If those homies are representing with a killer b-boy/swing dance show, well — you can’t feel much prouder than that.
That was the feeling watching […]

Montreal, QC…Indyish proudly presents the August Monthly Mess in celebration of its two year anniversary, on Saturday August 9th, 2008 at La Sala Rossa, 4848 boul. St-Laurent.
The Indyish team will take their messy ways to new heights this August. To celebrate the Indyish site design refresh as well as many other developments for artists, […]

Dance does not necessarily have to be understood in order to be appreciated and enjoyed. That said, however, The Reservation is a dance show which presents the audience with a theme (restaurant life) and some semblance of a plot (three women, two of them accompanied, arrive at a restaurant where misadventures ensue), but all of […]

Hey, does anyone out there have video from yesterday’s Mobile Clubbing at Mount Royal Metro?
Here are some videos from dance flash mobs around the world, most from about 2 years ago when this first went round. But first, some footage from the 4000 person Slow Dance flash mob in Buenos Aires from earlier this […]

Mobile clubbing, or a silent rave, is when a group of people get together somewhere in the city, and dance, each to their own music, either on ipod or internally generated. Spread the word!
Mobile Clubbing Rules are:
Arrive at the location at the given time.
Start dancing.
Spread out, and use the whole space.
Don’t worry clubbers, you will […]

This will be my last Montreal Fringe review for 2008, and though I hope to catch more in Toronto I’m not sure what will be able to top the dance show Throwing Gnomes - Lancer du Nain, which I saw in the sold out Tangent space on the very last day of it’s run.
I […]

An actor once told me that if a play started well but ended poorly, the audience would say “It wasn’t that good after all”; on the other hand, if it had a rough start but ended well, the audience would say “It wasn’t so bad after all!” So, in that spirit, I will do my […]

MAI, the Montreal Centre for Intercultural Arts puts on some really interesting multidisciplinary dance and theatre shows throughout the year. I volunteered on a show last year where the audience followed performers through a darkened basement and up spiral stairs before being lead outside to watch performers walk backwards down the side of the building.
Today […]

Coffee for One ***½
Only Meagan O’Shea onstage for this simple but charming mix of dance and… spoken word? Her wit shines through when she asks someone to time her so she’ll dance for 4 minutes, telling us that the average adult attention span is 3 minutes and she’s interested in seeing what happens when we […]

Another in this new series of conversations with artists crammed round the web cam, this time I sit down with the awesome ladies of Influx Dance to talk about parenting, the accessibility of dance, the communication and beauty in sign gesture, and their love of the Montreal Fringe: