Tag Archive for the term: offta

The first time I got to see Frédérick Gravel’s work, I have to admit that I didn’t quite know what to make of it. His peculiar sense of humour simply didn’t seem to work its magic on me. But these last few times, it’s been a whole different deal. Maybe Gravel’s work is the kind [...]

Indyish blogger, Sylvain Verstricht has been covering practically every dance show in Montreal for a year and a half now. He’s reviewed something like 60 dance shows over the course of that time. He also gave us his lists of the Best Short Works of 2007 and the Best Long Works of 2007. So if [...]

It’s three works with little in common that the OFF.T.A. put together for its Série Danse, except maybe their desire to pull us out of our complacency. In this regard, the first work of the night, Jean-Sébastien Lourdais’s NoSc117735, might be the most successful. However, this is not to say that it subjects its audience [...]

How do you manage to fill your venue with people? The people behind Cabaret Insupportable, Michel Monty and Brigitte Poupart, realized that it could just be a question of irony: put “unbearable” right in the title of your cabaret and ask a group of performers to tackle what they find unbearable about contemporary society. Who [...]

Disclaimer: Nous étions une fois is a French play, so I will allow myself to write the review in French. There is little hope that you would understand the play if you cannot understand the review anyway.
D’abord, un aveu: j’ai quitté la représentation de Nous étions une fois à l’entracte. Non pas que c’était terrible, [...]

As if there wasn’t enough dance in Montreal right now with the FTA, there is also the OFF.T.A., the OFF UQAM, and Clash. Looks like the perfect time to check out dance or theatre or whatever-you-call-that performance, especially since all of the shows at these events are cheap or even free.
Clash is already underway at [...]