By Victor Swoboda Agora de la danse gave Montreal a glimpse of dance’s fast-approaching future with Koros, a mixed bill featuring three group works presented in virtual reality: Allegro Barbaro by Hélène Blackburn, The Complex Simplicity of Love by Margie Gillis, and 6.58 Manifesto by Andrea Peña (who is showing at the Venice Biennale in
By Victor Swoboda As part of the 20th anniversary of Festival Quartiers Danse, Malandain Ballet Biarritz staged Nocturnes at the Wilder Building’s Studio-Theatre. Intrigued by the darker side of Chopin’s music, company founder/choreographer Thierry Malandain moved his dancers along a narrow strip amid a pervasive gloom, an arrangement that, according to program notes, recalled medieval
By Didier Morelli On March 17, the first warm spring evening of 2022 in downtown Ottawa, early evening club-goers strut down the streets in minimal clothing and the air is thick with the humidity of melting snow. Inside the glassy postmodern building that houses La Nouvelle Scène, Le Théâtre du Trillium presents Montreal choreographer Clara