Tag Archive for the term: dave st pierre

It’s more or less by accident that I run into Virginie Brunelle in the UQAM dance building. Yes, I am there to do an interview with her, but the precise location where it would happen is still up in the air. She’s just finished another interview and was taking a short moment to herself, her [...]

Dave St-Pierre arrives just as I’m wrapping things up with Virginie Brunelle. He’s just come down from the café at Agora de la danse where he was doing yet another interview in what is doubtlessly a long series. The occasion is special: this week, St-Pierre takes the stage for the first time in three years [...]

1. Suites cruelles, Hélène Blackburn
Suites cruelles deserves to be at the top of this list if only because it caused in me a reaction that I had never before experienced in the face of a work of art: it filled me with such anxiety that my hands and feet were freezing. Still today we remember [...]

Mandala Sitù in WARNING, choreography and photo by Dave St-Pierre

One of the first things to hit us when we enter Théâtre La Chapelle for Dave St-Pierre’s WARNING is the strong smell of rubber. The stage is covered with thousands of tennis balls. This is sure to make dancing difficult for the four women of Mandala [...]

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 [...]