Thirty years is a long time. It’s an especially long time for a contemporary dance festival, and Dancing on the Edge is the longest-running one in Canada. At the helm since the beginning is producer Donna Spencer (who was joined by co-founder Esther Rausenberg for the first few years). Some local artists who were in
If ever there was a ballet destined to thrill, it’s Vendetta, Storie di Mafia. Predictably a big winner for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, the dazzlingly danced tale of the rise of a Mafia daughter to the head of her clan is a violent and glamorously staged commission from Colombian-Belgian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa.
By Victor Swoboda Some of the most accomplished choreography in Montreal’s spring season occurred in forums not normally associated with dance. Montreal-based avant-garde ice-dance troupe Le Patin Libre has achieved the status of high art in Europe, where it regularly tours. Bravo, therefore, to Montreal producer Pierre Desmarais for putting Le Patin Libre in his