International First Peoples’ Festival: Honouring the Great Peace
This summer, the International First Peoples’ Festival (IFPF) will mark the 325th anniversary of the signings of the Great Peace of Montreal, which brought an…
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Mélanie Demers: The Art of Fleetingness
For multidisciplinary artist Mélanie Demers, anti-racism and feminism are basic principles; her creative work is a political gesture born of esthetic intuition. To better portray…
La Nef: Folkdance, Ancient Style
Returning from a master class in Austria, Andrew Wells-Oberegger proposed the idea of a program of balfolk—Aufregend! Exaltant!—to Claire Gignac, artistic director of La Nef.…
Western Performing Arts Calendar
Calgary Fluid Fest is Calgary’s largest festival of dance, movement and art. It celebrates contemporary creation until Nov. 8. www.springboardperformance.com Alberta Ballet unveils an all-new…
Dance: A Fall Season Preview
Montreal Playing with male stereotypes, Frédérick Gravel revives the striking and very rock-inspired Tout se pète la gueule, chérie. Music by Stéfan Boucher. 4’Sous, Sept.…
Francophone Theatre: The Fall Season Launch
Montreal Lorraine Pintal directs Kim Thúy’s first stagescript, Âm. This Vietnamese term evokes the harmony between the physical and the spiritual. TNM, Sept. 9-Oct. 4…
Anglophone Theatre: The Season Begins
Montreal The result of Centaur Theatre’s first Indigenous artist residency, Stone and Bone Spectacular is written by Ange Loft. The play brings a profound yet…
Festival International Présence Autochtone: Ocean Ode
Blending tradition and contemporary music, the musical event Song to the Whales will be featured at Place des Festivals during the opening days of the…
Festival TransAmériques: Hiroshima mon amour, the opera
The 1959 film, Hiroshima mon amour depicts the brief encounter between a French actress and a former Japanese soldier, whose family perished under the bombs.…
Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière: Baroque Dance
In 2008, director, choreographer and dancer Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière founded Les Jardins Chorégraphiques, a company specializing in early dance She first performed Molière’s plays in Old…
