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 Tessa Perkins Deneault “I never dreamed it could lead to so much,” says Caitlin Griffin about meeting modern dance icon Margie Gillis at a workshop in the summer of 2015. Although the Vancouver dancer, educator and choreographer had never seen Gillis perform live, she knew of her career and had jumped at the chance