Tag Archive for the term: uqam

For the sixteenth year in a row, Tangente has begun its dance season last week with Danses Buissonnières. The program is reserved for emerging choreographers, who are often fresh out of school. This year’s six selected works (about 10 minutes each) were especially entertaining. If there is one quality that many young Montreal choreographers share [...]

If you’re looking for something to do tonight (that would be Saturday, April 18), I highly recommend that you check out the UQAM dance show at Agora de la danse. The UQAM students never fail to impress me. This year, two choreographers get to present their work: Marie-Joëlle Hadd and Sarah-Ève Grant-Lefebvre. The choreography for [...]

The Chimera Project in Malgorzata Nowacka's The Hidden Spot, photo by Elle Cooper

After years of making a splash in Toronto, contemporary dance company The Chimera Project is finally coming to Montreal to present The Hidden Spot on November 20. Choreographed by Malgorzata Nowacka, whom the Globe and Mail has called the bad girl of contemporary [...]

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 [...]

It’s the end of the school year and, as is now tradition, UQAM dance students are hard at work to present the choreography of one of their own. Caroline Dusseault, this year’s selected choreographer, is well aware that the bar is high; last year, two of her classmates ended their run with a sold-out show [...]

As is now custom, Tangente is beginning its new season this week with its Extracurricular Dances program, which goes on until Sunday, September 30. Seven recent graduates from Montreal’s top three dance schools are called forth this year, promising a jam-packed and diversified evening. As to be expected, such diversity also necessarily leads to varying [...]

This province has always stuck me as a place where idealism reigns and where arts & culture are a long-standing political lever. So I figure that the Forum social québécois, a mashup of hundreds of activists and artists to take place August 23-26, just might be the most Québec event of the summer.
It starts [...]

Twelve individuals stand in the same position, immobile. A golden light shines on them from behind, transforming them into silhouettes that slowly break into movement. The sound of insects and frogs fill the space, aurally transporting us to the edge of a swamp. This is the dawn of the living.
From the very beginning, Christopher House’s [...]

This from Indyish’s brand new dance reviewer- we’re very glad to welcome: Sylvain Verstricht
In the past year, I have been fortunate enough to attend dance shows put on by students from both UQAM and Concordia University. However, I had not yet had the chance to see a show by the other Montreal dance school, Les [...]