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Lara Kramer: Generational Questioning

By Nathalie de Han on 5 June 2018 Dance, Indigenous

A choreographer and multidisciplinary artist of Ojie-Cree and Mennonite origin who has been recognized as a human-rights activist by the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, Lara Kramer works with an awareness of the brutal relations between Indigenous people and colonial society. Kramer is a professor at the Indigenous Dance Residency at the Banff Centre. Her work addresses scars resulting from cultural genocide. Fragment (2009) is inspired by her mother’s stories about the Canadian residential schools; Native Girl Syndrome (2013) addresses the internal trauma of Indigenous women. Windigo (FTA-2018 + CNA 2019) is a work in which traumas are externalized through various…

The Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur Offers Unique Programming

By Newswire on 2 May 2018 Classical Music, Dance

MONTRÉAL, May 2, 2018 /CNW/ – Today the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Canadian Heritage, announced the renewal of the Government of Canada’s support for the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur for the next three years. The Department of Canadian Heritage has allocated $65,000each year to the Festival through the Canada Arts Presentation Fund. This year, the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur will take place from August 2 to 12. This major cultural event offers a highly diverse lineup, and showcases musicians and dancers from around the world. Quotes “For over 25 years, the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur has…

Photo: Sasha Onyshchenko

The most famous scandal in the history of music

By Robert Kilborn on 16 March 2018 Dance

Montreal’s Les Grands Ballets renovates The Rite of Spring and The Firebird. In Honour Of and Presto-Detto charm. All new choreographies. Avert your eyes and cover your ears, Young Lady In Paris, on the evening of 29 May 1913, the Ballets Russes lobbed a jeroboam-sized Molotov cocktail into the plush amaranth of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. The offending incendiary device was The Rite of Spring, a new ballet that shocked, baffled and outraged journalists, musos, and pearl-clutchers alike. At this just-opened, decidedly modern theatre, located at 15 avenue Montaigne, top hats, pince-nez, and brocaded gowns elegantly mingled. In the audience:…

Discover Authentic Flamenco!

By O.Delaire on 12 November 2017 Dance, Scena Arts

Flamenco is a fascinating world of melodies and dances full of passion and fire that warms our hearts. Caroline Planté and Fernando Gallego “El Bancalero”, two emblematic figures of flamenco in Montreal, offer us two shows, Un dia cualquiera and Remembranzas. The guitarist Caroline Planté is from Montreal. She began to learn guitar at the age of 7 with her father Marcel Planté “El Rubio » as a teacher, he transmitted her the art of accompanying dance and singing and his passion for flamenco music. It is with him also that she makes her first shows. Winner of several prestigious scholarships,…

Join the Circle for Canada’s Largest Round Dance

By Newswire on 6 June 2017 150/375, Dance, Newswire

Montreal, June 6, 2017 – Aboriginal Day Live links all Canadians to celebrate opportunities and learn more about First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples. It showcases the unparalleled talent that is woven into the mosaic of this country, and the experience starts right when you set foot on the grounds. All eight host cities will offer free daytime activities – and each will be as unique as the culture and Peoples of the region. The cities will be united, despite the distance, through significant traditions. One will be the round dance or drum dance, which vary from community to community. Originally, a healing dance…

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Canadian Arts Festivals 2017: Our Picks

By La Scena Musicale Team on 1 June 2017 Circus, Dance, Film, Literature, Mainstream Jazz, Multimedia, Musical Theatre, Scena Arts, Theatre, Visual Arts, Vocal Jazz, World Music

Montreal St-Ambroise Fringe Festival Montreal, until June 18 The most convivial and bilingual event of the season, the Montreal St-Ambroise Fringe Festival takes place in the heart of the city on the Main. What makes it different? A program determined by lottery! Theatre, comedy, dance, music, and drag…no less than 153 talented companies from all over the world will be battling for your attention. The best way to pick is by reading the audience reviews posted in Parc des Amériques – an exercise that’s sure to make you a real fringier. My bets are on inVitro, by Pretium Doloris, the…

First-Ever Dancemakers Minifest Announced!

By Newswire on 14 April 2017 Arts Industry, Dance, Newswire

2017 MiniFest Biographies Amanda Acorn Amanda Acorn is an award winning choreographer based in Toronto, Canada. As a dancer she collaborated as a company artist with Dancemakers from 2011-2015. Independent engagements include projects with Dana Michel, Brendan Fernandes, Helen Husak, Lady Janitor, Benjamin Kamino, Isabel Lewis, Lemi Ponifasio and Andrea Spaziani. Her own works are intimate sensorial encounters for the theatre and unconventional spaces, constructing responsive environments using a choreographic frame. Minimally abstract, her choreographies captivate with raw poetry and unwavering rigor. Using the performative event as a place to question ways of seeing, the work offers space to consider our…

Photo: Veronyc Vachon.

The Nutcracker: A tale told by a Romantic, signifying everything

By Robert Kilborn on 12 December 2016 Concert Reviews, Dance, Romantic

Les Grands Ballets performs The Nutcracker with loving attention to detail and 53 years of experience. The author of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, Prussian storyteller, jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), rebelled against Enlightenment excess, with its emphasis on rational philosophy and the curtailing of the imagination. He and his German Romantic confrères strove to honour nature, memorialize innocence, and reclaim an authentic way of living. Sound familiar? Yes, it’s the 1960s in a Nutcracker—er, nutshell. Hoffmann’s satirical and self-parodying tales pioneered the fantasy genre. His taste for the macabre combined with…

Dan Tepfer

Daily News Roundup: 28 July 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 28 July 2016 Art Song, Chamber Music, Contemporary, Daily News Roundup, Dance, Piano

+ Jazz pianist Dan Tepfer will perform the Goldberg Variations with his own variations as part of the Cleveland International Piano Competition and Festival on July 31. + The National Ballet is taking on Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale for the first time in 26 years. + The most famous Finnish composer since Sibelius, Einojuhani Rautavaara, has died at the age of 87. + 13-year old boy soprano Aksel Rykkvin has released an album of arias by Mozart, Handel and Bach, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under conductor Nigel Short. + Read a review of the first round of…

Caroline Shaw & Vanessa Goodman

Video of the Day – Caroline Shaw & Vanessa Goodman

By Weiyu Dang on 11 July 2016 Contemporary, Dance, Video of the day

Youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Caroline Shaw is primarily a violinist, but composes primarily for contemporary, cutting edge chorale, drawing on eclectic forms of folk vocal music. In this multimedia duet with modern dancer, Vancouver’s Vanessa Goodman, Shaw sings various vocal strains that she records and layers with a loop machine. The resulting show is a polyphonic modern vocal fugue that’s matched, in black and white with Goodman’s lithe dance harmony. Caroline Shaw & Vanessa Goodman, Improvisation

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