This May, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal has invited Danièle Desnoyers to create a choreographic work for its program, pairing six dancers from her company, with the music of the new organ played by OSM’s organist-in-residence Jean-Willy Kunz.
Posted May 5, 2016A dance about dancers: this is the idea behind a new artistic proposal by performer, instructor and coach Sophie Corriveau in collaboration with interpreter and dramaturge Katya Montaignac.
Posted May 5, 2016Québec-based artists Oliver Koomsatira and Kim Henry use contemporary dance and live performance to bring a rap album to life at the fourteenth annual rock.paper.sistahz Festival in Toronto.
Posted May 2, 2016Luca “Lazylegz” Patuelli is the Canadian Dance Assembly’s National Youth Ambassador for Dance. Along with his organization, Project RAD, Patuelli imparts an International Dance Day message of inclusiveness.
Posted April 29, 2016Seventy-nine Montréal secondary school students perform new work by La Grande Fente on International Dance Day.
Posted April 28, 2016From a post-colonial perspective, Re-Quickening reconstructs feminine power through performance, music and art and features a powerhouse team of international indigenous women.
Posted April 27, 2016A flash mob organized by Regroupement québécois de la danse for International Dance Day 2015.
Posted April 26, 2016League of Exotique Dancers explores the golden era of burlesque through real stories of the women who made it glitter.
Posted April 22, 2016New work by Toronto-based Nicole Nigro explores minivans, renewal and the intersection of joy and grief.
Posted April 20, 2016Voted Toronto’s Best Dance Company of 2015 by NOW Magazine readers, the Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company takes to the stage this spring with a new work, Épocas.
Posted April 19, 2016Justine Comfort in rehearsal for Flesh and a Broken Whisper by John Ottman, presented as part of Older & Reckless 37: Old & Young and Reckless Together
Posted April 6, 2016L O N E L Y L O N E L Y is a short dancefilm featuring Francesca Chudnoff and Lukas Malkowski.
Posted April 2, 2016Montréal artists commit to ten hours straight of exploration between choreography, visual art and cinematography.
Posted April 1, 2016Sabina Perry, with Molly Johnson, makes a mixtape of the past – the good and the bad.
Posted March 30, 2016Toronto-born artist Gioconda Barbuto has been admired unflaggingly for four decades. Lucy M. May’s profile, “The Body Magnetic,” meets the Canadian artist.
Posted March 23, 2016The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts in Vancouver presents Words in Motion: three works that each pair a choreographer with a writer.
Posted March 18, 2016Komachi Montréal is a Japanese folk dance troupe specializing in traditional folk music.
Posted March 17, 2016