Tag Archive for the term: dance (Page: 2)

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:

Diverge **½
Five Concordia choreographers share the stage for this show. The first piece, Carrots on the Brain, was created for an in situ performance with three dancers in the Concordia EV building. While it worked beautifully there, its transformation into a solo in a conventional space robs it of what was most interesting about it. […]

Fonction Phatique ****
Even if you do not know what phatic communication is, you have engaged in it. It’s the “hello”s, “how are you”s, “thank God summer is finally here”s, the fluffy pieces of conversation that we use to enter in contact with each other and, more importantly, remain in contact. And it becomes the basis […]

Oy, it’s sticky in Mtown tonight, it’s June, that ain’t right! Well, it’s midafternoon, but still. The sidewalks are damply sizzling and the small groups and framentary crowds of tourists and marijuana dealers are circling slower then usual, making flurries like dandylion cotton when intercut by the sweating, irrepressibly active jogging types on Mount Royal. […]

Disclaimer: I am not a fan of Paul-André Fortier’s choreography. So please read this post with that in mind; if you have enjoyed his work in the past, then there is a good chance you would like this one as well.

Paul-André Fortier’s Cabane, photo by Denis Lavoie

It is on its third stop that I got […]

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 […]

After the string of slow-paced dance shows that have been performed at the FTA this year, one would imagine that I would welcome a show that does things differently with open arms. I certainly thought I would before seeing Marie Chouinard’s Orphée et Eurydice. But now I am forced to recognize that quality is not […]