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Tanztheater Wuppertal gives us a (terrifying) taste of Sicily in Pina Bausch’s Palermo Palermo

March 1, 2023 // 0 Comments

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 [read on]

Marie Chouinard’s “M”: animated by breath

February 3, 2023 // 1 Comment

Watching Marie Chouinard’s latest creation, “M,” is like having a fever dream where AI teaches cute mechanical dolls how to dance like humans.

Danse Danse launches its 25th season with Pina Bausch’s legendary Rite of Spring

October 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

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 [read on]

Nederlands Dans Theater: Not to be missed (but thanks to COVID-19, you’ll miss it)

March 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

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 [read on]

José Navas’s Winterreise: A Cautionary Tale for Valentine’s Day?

February 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

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, [read on]

Radicale Vitalité: Marie Chouinard pushes the envelope, laughing all the way

January 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

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. [read on]

Kidd Pivot’s Revisor: a fun-house mirror for modern times

April 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

In 1836 the Russian author Nikolai Gogol wrote a play called The Revisor in which not only the corruption but also the profound lack of humanity of government bureaucracies [read on]

Rosas incarnate Coltrane’s A Love Supreme

January 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

Nancy Berman reviews A Love Supreme by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Salva Sanchis, presented by Danse Danse.

Who knew monks could dance?

May 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

In Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Sutra, 19 Shaolin monks from an ancient temple near Dengfeng, China, perform hair-raising feats of martial prowess honed over a lifetime of [read on]

Legend Lin Dance Theatre’s Eternal Tides: the virtuosity of stillness

January 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

I have never seen anything like this. The stage is hung with long white translucent panels. Just in front of the stage, a candle burns on a sort of shrine. On each [read on]

Danse Danse presents Hofesh Shecter’s Grand Finale: an absolute must see

November 2, 2017 // 2 Comments

Many years ago I met a young man from Tel Aviv. I asked him what it was like to live in a place where bombs regularly go off in night clubs, pizza parlors, and crowded [read on]

Marie Chouinard’s Garden of Earthly Delights: The Ecstasy of Creation

September 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

When was the last time you took a good look at Hieronymous Bosch’s early 16th-century painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights?” I mean, really looked at it, at all the [read on]

Akram Khan’s Until the Lions: Love, Kill Bill style

March 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” In Akram Khan’s new work, Until the Lions, he explores the tension [read on]

Ohad Naharin’s “Last Work”: Mind. Blown.

January 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Nancy Berman reviews Ohad’s mindblowing “Last Work,” for Batsheva Dance Company, part of the Danse Danse season.

Nederlands Dans Theatre: highlight of the Danse Danse season

November 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Thanks to Danse Danse, for the first time in 20 years, the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) is back in Montreal, with a stellar triple bill line-up featuring two works [read on]

Flamenco and the feminine

September 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Danse Danse opened its 19th season Thursday evening in Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier with a breathtaking flamenco reimagining of Carmen. The female protagonist in Prosper [read on]

Marie Chouinard’s Animalistic Homage to Spring

April 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Compagnie Marie Chouinard. Isabelle Poirier. Photo Sylvie Ann Paré

Two choreographies get at the beastly and rutting side of human nature that aggressively rises in spring.

The Others of Flamenco with La Otra Orilla

February 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

La Otra Orilla pushes flamenco art to new forms.

Swan Lake Subversive

January 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Dada Masilo reinvents the classic by mixing ballet and African dance, but the challenges in this excellent show don’t stop there.

Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal: Slick But Lacking Substance

December 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Nancy Berman reviews the latest triple bill from the Ballets Jazz de Montreal.

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