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Festival TransAmériques unveils 'fertile' lineup
Artists and performers from across Canada and around the world will star in 25 productions at the ninth annual Festival TransAmériques, a daring celebration of contemporary theatre and dance that opens...
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Les Grands Ballets Canadien unveils 2015-16 season
Three masterworks from the company repertory, a new creation and two classical story ballets by major foreign guest troupes make up the 2015-16 season of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, details of which...
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Eifman Ballet interprets troubled complexity of Anna Karenina
Perhaps no world-class ballet company polarizes dance fans more than Russia’s Eifman Ballet. On one hand are those fans who adore the operatic-sized gestures that Boris Eifman creates for his virtuoso...
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Death and the Maiden is another Stephan Thoss masterpiece
Stephan Thoss’s latest creation for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Death and the Maiden, is an 80-minute work of such rich detail, poetic imagery and profound meaning that a single viewing is just not...
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National Ballet of China brings timeless love story Peony Pavilion to Saratoga
Montrealers who were impressed by the National Ballet of China in its Canadian debut two years ago have a rare chance to see this world-class company again this month. The Beijing-based troupe is...
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Ste-Catherine St. W hosts annual sidewalk sale this weekend
On Saturday July 11 and Sunday July 12, Ste-Catherine St. W. will be hosting the 18th edition of “La Sainte-Catherine célèbre!”, the annual sidewalk sale and street festival. Downtown Montreal’s main...
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It takes more than two to make the Montreal International Tango Festival
Next week in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the World Tango Championships (El Mundial de Tango) will decide which couple best demonstrates the dance known as “the vertical expression of a horizontal desire.”...
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Books for Kids: Anna Pavlova's love of ballet begins in Swan
Picture-book biographies have grown as a genre in recent years, running the gamut of subjects. There have been books on inventors such as Alfred Nobel (The Man Behind the Peace Prize, by Kathy-Jo...
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O Vertigo residency to bring Dave St-Pierre back to Montreal stages
After several years’ absence from Montreal’s stages, the bad boy of Quebec dance, Dave St-Pierre, is coming home. The choreographer, who has outraged, amused and moved audiences here and in Europe with...
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Profile: NAC dance program director Cathy Levy
Having presented almost 300 shows at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre over the last 15 years as dance program director, Montrealer Cathy Levy knows a thing or two about picking winners. In a perpetual...
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Dance at FTA: Lecavalier wins her war in Mille batailles
Get out your flip-flops — summer dance festivals are about to bust out all over, notably the two-week Festival TransAmériques, which starts Thursday, May 26. Marking its 10th annual season of...
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Geneviève Salbaing 'gave her life' to Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal
Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal co-founder Geneviève Salbaing never gave up on the company she adored. When money became so tight she was reduced to tears, she’d persevere and find some way to finance...
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In or Out? Sing and dance with Maya & Marty or pay tribute to Bowie with FTA
Wondering what to do tonight? In or Out is the daily answer to that question from Gazette music contributor Erik Leijon and writer/editor Denise Duguay. Stay in: Saturday Night Live survivors Maya...
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Obituary: Dorothy Rossetti nurtured Montreal's dance scene
Dorothy Rossetti, who died on Sept. 16 at age 96, extended an influence on Montreal dance much beyond the St-Denis St. dancewear store that bears her name. For more than 60 years, thousands of amateur...
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Nederlands Dans Theater is finally back in Montreal with a triple bill
After a two-decades’ absence, the celebrated Dutch contemporary dance troupe Nederlands Dans Theater returns to Montreal in November under the artistic direction of Paul Lightfoot, who was a dancer...
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Tentacle Tribe brings infinite moves to Fractals of You: 'Every step can be...
Founded just four years ago by Elon Höglund and Emmanuelle Lê Phan, Montreal-based Tentacle Tribe must already be considered among the city’s important artistic forces. The duo’s 40-minute duet, Nobody...
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Dance: Bollywood blockbuster Bharati 2 spans cultural divide
After playing the title role in the big Bollywood stage show, Bharati, more than 1,000 times, dancer-actress Bhavna Pani might easily have decided to hang up her sari. But no, with only a little...
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Dance: Montreal's Nutcracker ballet a hit in Finland
Mário Radačovský, a former principal dancer with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, is becoming something of a Nutcracker machine in Europe. At last count, he has introduced Les Grands’ version of The...
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Rosas bringing 'life-affirming' Rain back to town
Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is squarely among those members of Europe’s avant-garde dance world capable of attracting large audiences to big houses. Her famous Brussels-based...
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Dance: Final bow for Les Grands' Gradimir Pankov
With a triple bill of works by master choreographers Jiri Kylian and Stephan Thoss, Gradimir Pankov ends his 17-year tenure as artistic director of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. Only the company’s...
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