Morphs, Lina Cruz
Always in search of fantasy worlds, Lina Cruz plunges us this time into our own psyche. The choreographer wonders about the birth of the imagination, which creates our psychoses, our states of love, our dreams. Behind its natural cogs, but mysterious, would hide, according to her, the Morphs. Through five dancers and a musician, she unveils these mischievous beings who inhabit our imagination, between exacerbated freedom and supernatural madness. At the Agora de la danse, from October 27 to 30.
Whip, FakeKnot
Ralph Escamillan is a performer, choreographer queer who, through his company FakeKnot, questions the complexity of identity. In his works, he uses sound, costume, technology and the body to put forward his different reflections. With Whip, Ralph Escamillan explores the consent given and received from two bodies that come into contact. Both performers wear five-foot-long leather hoods that both evoke the BDSM world and keep them from seeing during the entire performance. They must then feel and listen to the other’s body, in complete privacy. In MAI, from November 3 to 6.
Festival Quartiers Danses
Once again this year, the Quartiers Danses festival is back to decompartmentalize contemporary dance and bring it closer to the public. Until September 19, spectators will be able to discover 21 choreographers who will offer 74 performances in 7 key places in Montreal, including the Lachine Canal, Place des Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts. In addition to its urban component, Quartiers Danses offers cinematographic works accessible online as well as live performances with, in particular, artists James Viveiros, Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo, Jeanne Renaud, Louise Bédard, Marc Boivin and Kyra Jean Green. Outdoors, indoors and online, from September 8 to 19.
The probability of nothingness, EBNFLŌH
Hip-hop culture is flooding the Maisonneuve theater with all its creativity with the play La probability du nil. Choreographer Alexandra “Spicey” Landé, programmed at Danse Danse for the first time, questions the relationship between our actions and the extreme situations we witness on a daily basis. How do you give them meaning when everything is falling apart? Thus, with his eight dancers from street dance and the public who will also invade the stage to stay close to the performers, she questions our judgment, the consequences of our choices while underlining the resilience and resistance that result from it. At the Maisonneuve theater, from October 5 to 9.
Residuals, Shion Skye Carter et Nyctophobie, Jean-François Boisvenue
To explore his personal and ancestral history, Shion Skye
Carter went to meet her calligraphy teacher in order to dive back into this first love which helped her to express her creativity. Subsequently, the artist used the brushstrokes to shape the movement, his dance as well as his decor in a black and white universe. For his part, Jean-François Boisvenue delivers a powerful autobiographical scenic essay that immerses himself in his own psychology. His fear of the dark led him to experience episodes of depersonalization and derealization. Through video animations, music, projections and light, the performer crosses a multitude of states in order to provide spectators with a cathartic experience. In Tangente, from October 23 to 26.
VEGA, Emmanuel Jouthe
Presented by Danse-cité, the piece VEGA Emmanuel Jouthe moves away from his recent works. Here, he considers the space of the work as a raw material that allows proximity with the spectators. The artist thus wishes to make the elusive tangible by playing with his four performers who constantly create and recreate this attempt at a concrete place without any apparent point of attachment, while highlighting human poetry. At the Théâtre Rouge, from November 25 to 27.
The Rite of Spring, Marie Chouinard
A must for contemporary dance, The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky has been taken up and revisited for over a century. This fall, it’s Marie Chouinard’s 1993 version that we can find on the Montreal scene. For the first time, the famous choreographer was directly inspired by the musical score to create and delve into this hymn to life in order to give it her own signature. The 12 performers embody an original pulse in an energetic and ardent choreography that fits perfectly into the repertoire of Mme Chouinard. At Usine C, December 8, 10 and 11.
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