Tag Archive for the term: dave st pierre

Looking at the upcoming dance season, I have to admit that I feel like a kid in a candy store. There are so many great choreographers showing their work in Montreal this year that I have been pulling the hair off my already balding head to limit myself to thirteen that you should definitely go [...]

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 [...]

I have had the chance to see so many great dance shows this past year that I could not resolve myself to singling out only ten, not to mention even attempting to place them in any kind of order. So I decided to double the list by dividing them between long and short works. The [...]

Last week, the first ever Festival TransAmériques began with great confidence by offering us original and demanding works from both sides of the ocean. The festival, which is dedicated to both dance and theatre, certainly opened with strength in the dance department…
Umwelt, Maguy Marin
Unfortunately, French choreographer Maguy Marin did not receive the warm welcome she [...]