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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]

December Festivals and Events in Montreal 2019

December 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

Domino Effect. Luminotherapie. 9th edition. Quartier des Spectacles. Place des Arts. Photo Rachel Levine

December in Montreal is all about markets, music, and merry making. Check out the list of festivals and other events here.

Lucia di Lammermoor – an 18th century Donizetti classic

November 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

Fantastic production by Opera de Montreal

Alt-J: Revenge of the Nerds

July 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

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 [read on]

Melody Gardot: sultry enchantress

July 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

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 [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.

December Festivals and Events in Montreal 2018

November 26, 2018 // 0 Comments

Luminotherapie See Saws. Place des Arts. Photo Rachel Levine.

December in Montreal is all about markets, music, and merry making. Check out the list of festivals and other events here.

Review : Das Rheingold

November 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

You probably know the Bugs Bunny classic, “Kill the Wabbit.” That one’s not from Das Rheingold. It’s from Ride of the Valkyries, another part of [read on]

King of the Tabla and Other Gods of Music

July 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

The creation mythology of jazz tells of the transplantation and fusion of various musical cultures in the 18th and 19th centuries. The slave trade brought north-west African [read on]

Women Rock the Jazz Fest: Jann Arden, Martha Wainwright, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Davina and the Vagabonds

July 2, 2018 // 0 Comments

The opening weekend of the 39th edition of the FIJM featured some of the most inspiring women in the music world, including a new fun find. Friday night Jann Arden [read on]

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]

Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal’s Dance Me: paging Leonard Cohen

December 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

With the one-year anniversary of his death one month past, Montreal’s craze for all things Leonard Cohen shows no sign of abating. There was the five-night Jenny Holzer [read on]

December Festivals and Events in Montreal 2017

November 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

December in Montreal is all about markets, music, and merry making. Check out the list of festivals and other events here.

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]

Dance across Montreal: Festival Quartiers Danses 2017

September 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Opening pieces promise more to come at dance festival in Montreal.

Debra DiGiovanni : The Queen of Canadian Comedy

July 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Comedian talks about how she stands out and what she misses most now that she’s in LA.

Michael Kaeshammer and Lisa Simone Double Bill at the FIJM

July 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

I admit that curiosity got the better of me: I wanted to see Lisa Simone not because I knew her music or anything about her, but rather because she is the great Nina [read on]

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