By Kristen Lawson Montreal’s Festival TransAmériques, which brings in contemporary dance and theatre from around the world, also offers annual seminars on critical dialogue. This summer I attended the English version of the seminar, Conversations on Performance, as an arts writer and marketer. (The seminar is also held in French.) Seventeen participants between the ages
By Philip Szporer At its core, Encantado (2021), a 75-minute work by Brazilian choreographer and activist Lia Rodrigues, feels like an exuberant, vital response to the coronavirus. Whatever conceptual ideas may be stitched into the piece, at the June 6 performance as part of Montreal’s Festival TransAmériques, what spoke loudly was the sense of collectivity.
By Victor Swoboda The embattled culture of Norway’s Indigenous Sami people is at the heart of work by Elle Sofe Sara, a 39-year-old dancemaker and filmmaker whose presentations over the past several years have alerted European audiences to her people’s history. Her 2021 choreography, Vástádus eana — The answer is land, opens Montreal’s 16-day Festival