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Dance: Festival to reveal Oriental culture to public
Next week, the sounds of Oriental music will waft across Montreal’s Old Port when the dance/music festival known as Orientalys sets up its three open-air stages and medina on the waterfront for the...
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OSM review: Pianist Berezovsky’s fire lights Prokofiev
MONTREAL — In 1908, a critic wrote that “New York heard a new composition called The Sea, and New York is probably still wondering why.” Today we know that amnesia is just one of the symptoms of...
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Reality dance stars come to Bell Centre
They captured the hearts of dance lovers on the small screen and now they’ve hit the road to dance some magic on the big stage. The Top 10 dancers from the Fox dance competition So You Think You Can...
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Everyday life celebrated in Le Délire domestique
Artists can find beauty in unusual, even banal places. It’s not the kind of beauty commonly associated, say, with the awe-inspiring colours of a gorgeous sunset. Rather, it’s the beauty that comes out...
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German troupe puts new spin on Bach
Red Bull Flying Bach is definitely a dance show of the don’t-try-this-at-home variety. From dizzying rapid headspins to turning upside down on one hand to somersaults with no hands at all, the show by...
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Choreographer Akram Khan gives new life to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
As an inspiration for dance makers, Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring seems indefatigable. Nijinsky’s choreography started things off at the Rite’s raucous historic première in Paris in 1913 and...
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Technology is causing a shift in the traditional dance hierarchy
For better or for worse, technology is causing a shift in the traditional dance hierarchy. No longer does the choreographer necessarily stand at the centre of creation. In the case of the new hour-long...
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Brian Macdonald, Montreal choreographer, dies at 86
Montreal-born choreographer Brian Macdonald, who once led Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Royal Swedish Ballet and other major dance companies, and who won acclaim for creating or staging ballets,...
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Montreal dance awards announced
American-born, Brussels-based choreographer Meg Stuart has received the Montreal dance community’s 2014 Grand Prix de la Danse. The $15,000 prize recognizes her two decades of avant-garde creations....
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Inside the auditions for Canada's National Ballet School
Seven little girls in pink tights and ballet slippers gathered and giggled quietly in a holding room at Studio Bizz on Mont-Royal Ave. one mid-morning in mid-November. Hair trapped in tightly-twisted...
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2014 was a year for iconic dance companies to revisit Montreal
Choosing Montreal’s dance highlights of the past year was both a pleasure and a trial. A pleasure because it brought back memories of artists displaying the fruit of their inspiration and hard labour....
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Swoboda: 2015 will see big dance shows coming to Montreal
Out with the old year, in with the new! The winter 2015 dance season is poised to raise its curtain. Here’s a survey of some of the shows coming to Montreal stages. January The month begins with some...
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Ones to watch: In Tentacle Tribe’s hands, urban dance as a genre disappears
The two founding members of Tentacle Tribe are the real deal. Emmanuelle Lê Phan and Elon Höglund are a dance duo with the technique, stage experience, chemistry, intelligence and creative firepower to...
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Wildside Festival opens with a bang
Opening night at the Wildside Festival felt like a rapid transit ride between disparate worlds. It was possible to see three shows with barely time for a chat between, starting with the evocative Aiden...
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Tune in to Danser!
They are young and determined, passionate and disciplined and they dance like everybody is watching. They are the 2014 graduates of École supérieure de ballet du Québec and the focus of a six-part...
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Stars of the Russian Ballet shine at Théâtre Outremont
A dance city like Montreal deserves to see not only hot contemporary stuff, but also a regular dose of good old-fashioned classical ballet, so the return of ballet stars from leading Russian companies...
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More exuberance and heat from Lizt Alfonso Danza Cuba
Like a horse and carriage, Cuba and dance go together. You can’t seem to have the one without the other. The most prominent international symbol of Cuba’s dance prowess is the collection of fabulous...
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Louise Bédard restages award-winning solo
Louise Bédard is the latest veteran Montreal contemporary dance maker to revisit one of her earlier creations in another signal of a generational turnover. The restaging of her award-winning solo from...
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In Rocco, dancers throw punches
Dancers have their share of broken bones, pulled muscles and torn ligaments, but the risk of getting their nose broken on stage is not usually part of the bargain. The risk to the nose is real in an...
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Memory of a Shadow is stripped down but powerful
On the surface, the hour-long solo dance called Memory of a Shadow has rather simple elements — a chair, a sheet of white material, a pool of water, some pointed lights. Underneath, however, lie...
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