RX for Winter: Get Thee to the Wiggle Room!
In the dead of winter, the pull of the couch, Netflix, and a bottle of wine is hard to resist. And I say go ahead — surrender to the remote, especially if you have a warm [read on]
Articles by Nancy Berman
RX for Winter : Bota Bota The Spa on a Boat
Dream about summer from the first snowfall? Our new column Rx for Winter has got what you need to make it through a Montreal winter. Bota Bota spa up first.
You need this: Timbre Cases creates the perfect home for your guitar
Timbre Cases is in the final weeks of its kickstarter campaign to produce its revolutionary instrument cases. If you love your guitar, donate now!
Benoit Lachambre’s Prismes: playing with our perceptions of the world
Benoit Lachambre’s latest work, Prismes, challenges the ways we see, experience, and express the world within and around us.
Adam Cohen seduces Montreal at M for Montreal
Adam Cohen and his six-piece band plays to an adoring audience at Théâtre Maisonneuve as part of M for Montréal.
Gypsophilia Brings the World to Montreal
Gypsophilia blends jazz, klezmer, Brazilian, reggae, funk, swing and more to create an East-coast dance party sensation! Check them out at M for Montreal.
Gypsophilia: Halifax’s best party band plays Upstairs Jazz Bar
Get your party shoes on for Gypsophilia, the Halifax fusion band that was only meant to play one show and hasn’t stopped playing since.
Something Epic This Way Comes: Akram Khan’s iTMOi at Danse Danse
Something Epic This Way Comes: Akram Khan’s iTMOi gets in the head of Igor Stravinski, and the results are terrifying
Mo Kenney’s Second Album: Darker, Rockier, and Brutally Honest
Mo Kenney talks about In My Dreams, her second, slightly raunchier album.
Tentacle Tribe and Wants&Needs Danse: the best of Montreal modern dance
Nancy Berman reviews Danse Danse’s showcase of two young Montreal modern dance companies.
The Montreal Lyric Orchestra: the new kid on the classical music block
The Montréal Symphony Orchestra is great, and so is the Orchestre Métropolitain, but that doesn’t mean that a young startup orchestra — the Lyric Orchestra of [read on]
Interview with Dan Derkson: The Rocky Horror and its Enduring Legacy
Dan Derkson talks about his role in the Mainline’s cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Halloween, and the desire to lose your innocence.
Paquita: Ballet Perfection all the Way from Paris
A review of Paris Opera Ballet’s production of Paquita: a rarely performed work transported to Montreal from the heart of French ballet.
Love a Little Bit More and Hate a Little Bit Less with Tentacle Tribe
Emmanuelle Lê Phan and Elon Höglund of Tentacle Tribe talk about dance, squid, fractals, and their upcoming show.
Wants&Needs Danse: challenging the norms of modern dance
Nancy Berman talks to Sasha Kleinplatz of Wants&Needs Danse about site-specific choreography and their upcoming production of Chorus II at Cinquième Salle.
Review of Soif : Drinking into Desire through Dance
Nancy Berman reviews the world premiere of Soif, Ginette Laurin’s new work for O Vertigo, a piece that looks at the instincts and drives of man’s animal nature.
The Roots of Authenticity. Interview with Adam Cohen
Adam Cohen talks to Nancy Berman about giving up, finding authenticity, and sacred covenants.
Cycles: Choreographer Eva Kolarova On Balancing Dance and Art
Dancer Eva Kolarova talks to Nancy Berman about working with composer Reiko Yamada and film director Luciana Markos to create her new work Cycles.
Bobby Dove Takes Flight at Bar de Courcelles
Singer-songwriter Bobby Dove talks with Nancy Berman about country music and the Montreal roots scene.
Matthew Barber and Justin Rutledge at Upstairs and the Segal Centre
Interview with Matthew Barber about his latest album, Big Romance.