Tag Archive for the term: dance

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 [...]

When he was in his early twenties, Andrew Turner had his mind set on academia. He was studying history and literature, thinking he would eventually become a professor. But with the best laid plans… “I developed a set of chronic injuries in my left arm,” he tells me. “I was also a musician and I [...]

No fanfare at Tangente this week. Fuck being submerged in a dark room, fuck seductive melodious music, fuck the ceremony that is usually the dance show. All that’s left of it is for us to walk in the room and sit in a chair, waiting for something to happen. The bright stage lights are already [...]

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 [...]

There is no single point of entry into Anne Thériault’s work. When watching her shows, it’s hard to figure out what element she uses as a foundation to build her work. The choreography, the costumes, the lighting; they don’t seem to be layered as much as to be happening all at once, inseparable from one [...]

A couple in the middle of the Australian outback. An old red Corolla that won’t start. A pay phone that doesn’t work. No cell phone reception, of course. And, as the woman tries to find a radio station, Phil Collins’ voice emerging from the speakers. Like what things can always get worse.
So the couple fucks, [...]

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 [...]

The selection of January as the month that marks the beginning of a new year is no doubt arbitrary, and yet it still affects the way we perceive things. For me, it means I’ve put out my list of the dance shows that stuck with me over the past twelve months and it’s like the [...]

It’s almost a return to Tangente’s Double Territoire days we get to experience this week. Two thirty-minute works by different choreographers. One where the audience is sitting in the front of the room; the other, where we walk through the back door and around the space. And, even though they share a few characteristics and [...]

After giving us backstage access to the most hysterically funny rehearsal of a punk rock band with Hawks and Doves in 2007, choreographer Katie Ward is back at Tangente and this time puts the rock n’ roll in the title of her new work, Rock Steady. The characters that populate her world are not as [...]