Tag Archive for the term: tangente

When he was in his early twenties, Andrew Turner had his mind set on academia. He was studying history and literature, thinking he would eventually become a professor. But with the best laid plans… “I developed a set of chronic injuries in my left arm,” he tells me. “I was also a musician and I [...]

No fanfare at Tangente this week. Fuck being submerged in a dark room, fuck seductive melodious music, fuck the ceremony that is usually the dance show. All that’s left of it is for us to walk in the room and sit in a chair, waiting for something to happen. The bright stage lights are already [...]

There is no single point of entry into Anne Thériault’s work. When watching her shows, it’s hard to figure out what element she uses as a foundation to build her work. The choreography, the costumes, the lighting; they don’t seem to be layered as much as to be happening all at once, inseparable from one [...]

The selection of January as the month that marks the beginning of a new year is no doubt arbitrary, and yet it still affects the way we perceive things. For me, it means I’ve put out my list of the dance shows that stuck with me over the past twelve months and it’s like the [...]

It’s almost a return to Tangente’s Double Territoire days we get to experience this week. Two thirty-minute works by different choreographers. One where the audience is sitting in the front of the room; the other, where we walk through the back door and around the space. And, even though they share a few characteristics and [...]

After giving us backstage access to the most hysterically funny rehearsal of a punk rock band with Hawks and Doves in 2007, choreographer Katie Ward is back at Tangente and this time puts the rock n’ roll in the title of her new work, Rock Steady. The characters that populate her world are not as [...]

As the Holidays near, the Montreal dance scene is taking unusual forms. This week, family-oriented shows are taking over the stage. Of course, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens continue their tradition by presenting The Nutcracker, but if you’re not too keen on the idea of seeing it for the umpteenth time, you might want to head [...]

I’m already a big fan of Jacques Poulin-Denis and I’ve never even seen a show explicitly choreographed by him only. It’s that Poulin-Denis is truly a multi-disciplinary artist. He created the music for O Vertigo’s majestic Étude #3 pour cordes et poulies and the revival of La Chambre Blanche. He’s danced for and with the [...]

In between rehearsing for the new show she’s working on and running over to Tangente to work on the set design for the show she’s presenting this week in Montreal, Toronto choreographer Ame Henderson takes a bit of time to sit down with me at Cheval Blanc. It’s the second time I’ll get to see [...]

We must not trust the first images of Celui qui aime est à Dachau. Yes, we can hear dancer Sophie Dalès singing “I Will Always Love You” up the stairs, but only a child could ever believe such insipid pop lyrics. Everyone else knows that “always” and “love” are two words that should never be [...]