Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, under the artistic director of Quebec’s own Eric Gauthier, wowed Montrealers with two reinterpretations of Swan Lake, by Marie Chouinard and Hofesh Shechter respectively, as well as a classic by “Mr. [read more]
Jakie the hit in the Nederlands Dans Theater show [read more]
Imagine, if you will, that the replicants from Blade Runner mated with members of the South African band Die Antwoord (specifically in their video I fink u freeky), and their offspring went back in time [read more]
Kidd Pivot Kidd Pivot’s Assembly Hall offers both a glimpse into the arcane world of medieval re-enactment and, more so, an in-depth exploration of human universality: what brings us together, what keeps us apart, the [read more]
With autumn just around the corner, Montrealers will find any and all ways to squeeze the last bit of summer out of September. And what better way to stock up on sunshine than by listening [read more]
Pina Bausch’s 1989 masterpiece Palermo Palermo is a Felliniesque portrait of life in the Sicilian city. Like Fellini’s films (Roma comes to mind), Bausch’s work is less focused on constructing a concrete narrative, and more [read more]
Watching Marie Chouinard’s latest creation, “M,” is like having a fever dream where AI teaches cute mechanical dolls how to dance like humans. [read more]
Danse Danse launched its 25th season this week with a revival of the late great Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring. Originally created in 1975 for her world-renowned Tanztheater Wuppertal, Bausch’s choreography captures both the brutality [read more]
Sometimes the magic just isn’t there, and it’s hard to say why. That’s how it was at Holly Cole’s Jazz Fest appearance. Did she sound good? Yes. Did the band play well? Yes. Were they [read more]
Cecile McLorin Salvant held the audience in the palm of her hand at the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal. Review by Nancy Berman. [read more]
Nancy Berman reviews Storry at the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal. [read more]
The Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) is world renowned for the virtuosity and versatility of their dancers, as well as their collaborations with the most illustrious choreographers on the international modern dance scene. Any opportunity to [read more]
Winter is long and hard. It sucks. Finding out that your significant other has ditched you for another and that you must leave your cozy home to wander, grieving and alone, forevermore, until you sink [read more]
In her latest work, Radicale Vitalité, Solos et Duos, Marie Chouinard walks a bunch of fine lines: pleasure vs. pain, laughter vs. tears, love vs. strife, sanity vs. insanity, animal vs. machine, functional vs. dysfunctional. [read more]
From a divided city, a rare moment of collaboration between Muslim and Jew: Last night, Tangente Danse presented Premiere, a work choreographed by Elad Schechter and performed by Rand Ziad Taha, two artists hailing from [read more]
Warning: partial spoiler alert! Are you sick of watching the news and feeling angry? Have you had it up to here with sexual politics? Are you female, male, or anything in between? Then go see [read more]
If you don’t already know Jeremy Dutcher, you should. A member of Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, this classically trained singer, composer, musicologist, and activist won the Polaris prize in 2018, and a Juno [read more]
Critics love to hate Alt-J. They and their music have been called fussy and uptight; beige, tuneless, mild, featureless, and boring; lead singer Joe Newman has been compared to “a mean-spirited hobbit mocking the singing [read more]
One of the world’s foremost jazz vocalists, five-time Grammy winner Dianne Reeves and her phenomenal band knocked it out of the ballpark last night at the FIJM. Known for her range, her virtuosity, and her [read more]
Dressed all in black, with her customary dark sunglasses, Melody Gardot ravished a sold-out Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at the FIJM last night. Slow, sultry, soulful, smoky, and sensual, Gardot enchanted festival-goers with her quasi-retro musical visions [read more]
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