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José Navas celebrates love and resilience with AVES!
Moving tribute to dancer’s deceased partner created through a series of solos. [read more]
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Danse Gauthier brings Theaterhaus Stuttgart to Montreal with an exhilarating triple bill
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]
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Nederlands Dans Theater: Two misses and a hit
Jakie the hit in the Nederlands Dans Theater show [read more]
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A must see, but not for the faint of heart: tanzmainz’s indescribable Soul Chain
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]
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Kidd Pivot’s Assembly Hall: commit to the Quest!
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]
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Tanztheater Wuppertal gives us a (terrifying) taste of Sicily in Pina Bausch’s Palermo Palermo
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]
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Marie Chouinard’s “M”: animated by breath
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]
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Danse Danse launches its 25th season with Pina Bausch’s legendary Rite of Spring
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]
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Nederlands Dans Theater: Not to be missed (but thanks to COVID-19, you’ll miss it)
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]
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José Navas’s Winterreise: A Cautionary Tale for Valentine’s Day?
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]
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Radicale Vitalité: Marie Chouinard pushes the envelope, laughing all the way
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]
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Kidd Pivot’s Revisor: a fun-house mirror for modern times
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 are exploited as farce. In Kidd [read more]
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Rosas incarnate Coltrane’s A Love Supreme
Nancy Berman reviews A Love Supreme by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Salva Sanchis, presented by Danse Danse. [read more]
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Who knew monks could dance?
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 devotion to daily practice of kung fu and tai [read more]
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Legend Lin Dance Theatre’s Eternal Tides: the virtuosity of stillness
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 side of [read more]
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Danse Danse presents Hofesh Shecter’s Grand Finale: an absolute must see
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 more]
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Marie Chouinard’s Garden of Earthly Delights: The Ecstasy of Creation
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 bizarre details: the guy with [read more]
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Akram Khan’s Until the Lions: Love, Kill Bill style
“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 between hunter and hunted, predator and [read more]
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Ohad Naharin’s “Last Work”: Mind. Blown.
Nancy Berman reviews Ohad’s mindblowing “Last Work,” for Batsheva Dance Company, part of the Danse Danse season. [read more]
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Nederlands Dans Theatre: highlight of the Danse Danse season
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 choreographed by the NDT’s own Sol [read more]