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Here are this weekend’s streams, including La Scena Musicale’s Holiday concert, we think you shouldn’t miss! This new feature will run from now until January 1, 2021. To submit your event, please email [email protected]. Friday: Opera Ballet Vlaanderen: Choreolab #15 In the successful Choreolab series, the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen dancers have the chance to explore their potential as choreographers. Step-by-step, they develop their own works, choreographing them for their colleagues to dance. The burgeoning young choreographers are also responsible for other elements in their pieces, such as selecting the music and the lighting plan. With the help of the company’s set…

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After the shock of the pandemic and the ordeal of emergency cancellations, uncertainty remains the dance world’s greatest adversary. But while long-term planning remains difficult, presenters are doing everything they can to keep up. Judge for yourself. Danse danse Throughout the confinement, dance enthusiasts have relieved their boredom by discovering the pleasure of online workshops. Danse danse offers five virtual workshops for the general public, all led by outstanding performers and communicators, including Anik Bissonnette, who starts the programming with the Nelken Line training. Caroline Ohrt, co-artistic director of Danse danse, explains: “Showcasing the work of 35 young dance students…

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Recent announcements from Minister of Culture Nathalie Roy have received mixed reviews from professionals in the field, in particular those working in the performing arts. In an open letter, Stéphane Laforest, conductor of the Orchestre symphonique de Sherbrooke and the Sinfonia de Lanaudière, argues that government assistance only benefits part of the industry and neglects those employed as performers. At first, like many of my colleagues – especially people from the performing arts – I felt critical of the minister of culture. We were all shaken after two press conferences which announced the opening of drive-in cinemas and the allocation…

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Minister of Culture and Communications Nathalie Roy announced today a cultural relaunch plan with a budget of $400 million. Nearly $290 million will be invested in 2020-2021, including $110 million in additional investments for the current fiscal year. The purpose of the relaunch plan is to enable Quebec cultural organizations and artists who suffered during the Covid-19 crisis to resume their activities as quickly as possible, particularly with the help of digital platforms. The budget presented aims to: Support film and television production ($91.5 million) Support businesses and cultural organizations in resuming their activities ($71.9 million) Support innovation and creation…

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FEBRUARY Montreal choreographer Louise Bédard celebrates 30 years of her eponymous company with Promesses, performed by six talented dancers alternating duos and counterpoints. Wilder Building, Feb. 5 to 8. www.agoradanse.com The productive duo Philippe Meunier and Ian Yaworski will teach four new dancers how to dance a jig in Suspendu au sol. The other piece of the evening is Pythagore mon corps, choreographed by Stacey Désilier. She answers the question: How to combine the individuality of performers, seriousness and musicality? By mingling martial arts, urban dance and boxing, of course! Wilder Building, Feb. 6 to 9. www.tangentedanse.ca London choreographer Jamila…

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After denouncing the dissonances of the human condition, Jean-Sébastien Lourdais has chosen to embrace the somatic approach. Les appuis imaginés, the newest creation by the performer-choreographer, is part of this quest for harmony and tenderness. In 2002, Lourdais founded his company Défaut de fabrication, a name that would later evolve into Fabrication Danse. Trained in his native France and UQAM, he has made his mark with dramatic and demanding works with strong social connotations (he collaborates with sociologist Marc Laplante), which have been successful from here to Europe. Later on, he put the foundation of his approach into question and…

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My works are the children of my knowledge of music and pain,” wrote Franz Schubert in his notebooks. Inspired by the Schubertiades, the musical and literary evenings during which the prolific Austrian composer played piano with the poets, singers, musicians and painters who made up his circle, Winterreise (Winter Journey) is a romantic cycle of 24 Lieder, small pieces for piano and voice, composed two years before his early death at the age of 31. The lyrics of Winterreise are taken from poems by Wilhelm Müller. Franz Schubert uses about one note per poetic foot, producing a melancholy work that…

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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, founded by aficionados in 1974, has become a veritable institution. Established in New York, the company is only Monegasque by name; the offbeat, comical version of the classical ballet it offers, in parody and in drag, quickly found an echo in the media and among the public. Imagine a troupe of young men dressed in tutus and moving en pointe, with an irreproachable technique. Marginal at their beginnings, the “Trocks,” as they call themselves, are today undoubtedly on the cutting edge. Why choose ballet when soccer and karate exist? In Italy, as in many…

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My works are the children of my knowledge of music and pain,” wrote Franz Schubert in his notebooks. Inspired by the Schubertiades, the musical and literary evenings during which the prolific Austrian composer played piano with the poets, singers, musicians and painters who made up his circle, Winterreise (Winter Journey) is a romantic cycle of 24 Lieder, small pieces for piano and voice, composed two years before his early death at the age of 31. The lyrics of Winterreise are taken from poems by Wilhelm Müller. Franz Schubert uses about one note per poetic foot, producing a melancholy work that…

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THE RIOT BALLET A devised, collectively created work by multi award-winning theatre artists from Canada, the US, Ireland, and Colombia: Noah Drew, Emer O’Toole, Catalina Medina and Martin Andrews, with major contributions from Shawn Ketchum Johnson, Shannon Holmes, and Squinky. Wednesday, August 21 – Sunday, August 25, 2019 Click to see promo video: The Riot Ballet Montreal, August 2019 – Amid ongoing cover-ups, conspiracies, spin doctors and fake news, how do you pick a side? What inspires people to make the leap from spectator to player or from clicktivist to activist? How much change can you really make (even if…

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