By Gary Smith There sometimes comes a moment in a choreographer’s career where inspiration, imagination, and dramaturgy ally in a very special way. As an audience member, there are sometimes moments when movement becomes more than steps, more than storytelling, when something happens onstage that lifts you out of your theatre seat and into the
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.