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 With COVID masks and vaccination documents at the ready, spectators filed into downtown Montreal theatres for a busy fall dance season. In September at Usine C, Louise Lecavalier presented Stations, first seen last year in Europe. Like her earlier choreographies, So Blue and Battleground, Stations was a kinetic marvel. With extraordinary coordination, Lecavalier executed an infinite variety of quicksilver gestures.
By Michael Crabb Thanks to Digidance, an initiative by a consortium of major Canadian dance presenters, a new generation will this month have the opportunity to see why Jean-Pierre Perreault’s 1984 work Joe is considered a landmark in the evolution of Canadian contemporary choreography. Perreault, who died in 2002 at age 55, originally made Joe