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Danse Gauthier brings Theaterhaus Stuttgart to Montreal with an exhilarating triple bill

May 5, 2024 // 0 Comments

Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, under the artistic director of Quebec’s own Eric Gauthier, wowed Montrealers with two reinterpretations of Swan Lake, by Marie [read on]

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]

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.

Holly Cole at the Jazz Fest

July 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sometimes the magic just isn’t there, and it’s hard to say why. That’s how it was at Holly Cole’s Jazz Fest appearance. Did she sound good? Yes. Did the band play [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]

Dianne Reeves: Building Bridges, Not Walls

July 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

One of the world’s foremost jazz vocalists, five-time Grammy winner Dianne Reeves and her phenomenal band knocked it out of the ballpark last night at the FIJM. Known for [read on]

Lisa Fischer and Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet: Propelled Hearts

May 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

With a voice to shake you to your very core, Lisa Fischer takes to the stage with a dozen dancers in Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet’s Canadian premiere of The Propelled [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]

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]

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]

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]

The World Famous Harlem Gospel Choir: Praising the Lord at the FIJM

July 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

No matter how foul your mood, it’s ridiculously difficult not to smile like a fool at a gospel concert, and the World Famous Harlem Gospel Choir had the whole audience [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]

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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