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A must see, but not for the faint of heart: tanzmainz’s indescribable Soul Chain

January 24, 2024 // 0 Comments

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 [read on]

Kidd Pivot’s Assembly Hall: commit to the Quest!

December 3, 2023 // 0 Comments

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 [read on]

Creation Destruction Goes Big

May 28, 2023 // 0 Comments

Fantastic outdoor program offered by the FTA tackles cosmic themes with excellent performances, music, and visuals

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.

Luminothérapie 2021-2022

December 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

Luminotherapie 2021. Whale. Photo Rachel Levine

If you’re looking for a Covid-safe, evening activity around the Place des Arts area, Luminotherpie might be what you need.

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]

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