Tag Archive for the term: tangente

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 […]

Harry S. Truman is famous for having said “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” It’s a sentence that came back to mind yesterday as I watched the CLASH event unfold at Tangente. Developed and directed by Lynda Gaudreau, CLASH is an event devoted to choreographic […]

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 […]

What would you do if you had to dance a duet, but your partner didn’t show up? Not only did this actually happen to Andrew Turner when he was a student at Concordia University, but since then he’s used it as inspiration and decided to recreate the situation over and over again. Call it masochism, […]

After one week in residence at Tangente, Chanti Wadge has started to present just beings, a work that will continue to evolve until its last presentation on April 6. There were still a few weaknesses when I went to the premiere on Thursday, but also more than enough gripping moments to make it a show […]

Deborah Light’s Angelica, photo by John Collingswood

After traveling through Great Britain, Italy, and Luxembourg, the Dance Roads tour finally arrived to its final destination in Canada this past weekend. It is not uncommon for big companies to get to show their work around the world, but the purpose of this tour is to offer emerging […]

If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, I’d highly recommend that you check out Mélanie Demers and Laïla Diallo’s Sauver sa peau at Tangente. Anglos, don’t let the French title scare you (its English incarnation is Sense of Self); the only spoken section is in English and then there is a bit […]

A few weeks ago, one of my dance dates told me that she expects dance to either make her laugh or cry, that anything else is useless to her. While I don’t think I’m anywhere near as extreme as she is, I understand what she means; I do expect dance (or any art form for […]

Thanksgiving weekend unfolded unexpectedly in the dance world. Having already seen Marie Chouinard’s stunning bODY_rEMIX/les_vARIATIONS_gOLDBERG last year, I had decided to rather focus my attention on Ölelés at Agora de la danse. I showed up at the venue only to find out that the show had been canceled due to a family emergency that called […]