Tag Archive for the term: tangente

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I was intrigued by the catchy title that this week’s show at Tangente is sporting, Dieu ne t’a pas créé juste pour dancer, but not being familiar with Montreal choreographer Marie Béland’s work, I went in with no expectations. I was however looking forward to seeing four of my favourite young dancers perform in [...]

Yunjung Kim's Meeting You, photo by Kenki Iida

No fewer than three countries are represented this week at Tangente: Korea, Japan, and Canada. It is Mélanie Demers who takes the stage for the latter with a truncated version of Les Angles Morts. I have already established myself as a Demers groupie many times before and you [...]

For the 15th year, Tangente has opened its new season with Extracurricular Dances, a program of short pieces by recent graduates of Montreal dance schools. Of course the works are a tad uneven, but overall there is plenty of good stuff to make it worth the price of admission. Two works especially stood out for [...]

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 [...]