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Sheryl Crow’s new album is a clever one that deals with such issues as the environment, gasoline/oil, war, diamonds, peace and love. The opening song, God Bless This Mess, is performed solo and paints Crow initially as a folky young singer-songwriter. But don’t be fooled, the album quickly shows it’s true colors as a slick [...]

We knew what to expect from Les Chambres de Jacques, the second run of the work that New York-based Canadian born choreographer Aszure Barton created for Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal but a few years ago. Jack in a Box, the new work by BJM’s resident choreographer that completes this double header, had more of [...]

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 [...]

Corps noir, by Stéphane Gladyszewski

After Chanti Wadge got three weeks of residency at Tangente last year, this time it is Stéphane Gladyszewski’s turn to benefit from the space… and a whole lot of gadgets! Like Wadge’s offering, Gladyszewski’s also comes across as a series of experiments (at least at first), though his are more focused [...]

It’s hard to go wrong with Jiří Kylián’s work. He is one of the leading figures of contemporary ballet and with good reason; his innovative choreography gives its performers countless chances to demonstrate their skills. The selection of pieces by the organizers of the event, Mário Radacovsky and Anik Bissonnette, formerly of Les Grands Ballets [...]

Dirty Beaches’ latest album, Horror came out just last month and already it’s getting some nice reviews. In a recent interview with us, this is how Alex aka Dirty Beaches described making Horror:
The whole album was an experience of horror. Like therapy.
I wanted to record it.
At the time I was really into the idea of [...]

Naomi Stikeman in Çaturn

Çaturn sports choreography by the amazing Crytal Pite; music by Bell Orchestre and Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry; acting by the extraordinary Janine Sutto; artistic advising by the brilliant Robert Lepage; and dancing by the gifted Peter Chu and Naomi Stikeman. So it’s got to be good, right? Right?
Stikeman is the brain [...]

Last week, Tangente began its Impulsions program with two works that stand on different ends of the spectrum. The first, visual artist Andrew Foster’s Ossip, is as static as the second, Dean Makarenko’s Daylight, is dynamic. Given their presence on a stage, it might not be too surprising that one faired better than the other.

Monique [...]

It’s sitting on a chair at the back of the stage, in plain sight, that José Navas patiently waits for us. He’s not trying to hide or to impress, to make Miniatures a hermetic work. It’s just him, alone, hoping to share a few autobiographical dance pieces with us.

José Navas, photo by Valerie Simmons

He walks [...]

After two years of seeing the diamonds in the rough created by the Grouped’ArtGravelArtGroup (GAG for short), it was finally time this week to see what this would all look like when all the members of Frédéric Gravel’s art research/creation group would be together at Tangente. Our expectations were fulfilled, the integral version of GravelWorks [...]