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Uncanney Valley by Tawny Andersen (Belgium) and
Now I Got Worry
by Andrew Turner
Presented within the event IDEA-BASED DANCES
March 11, 12, 13, 7:30PM, March 14, 4PM
Photo: Warren Zellman
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February 2010
IDEA-BASED DANCES
These six choreographers, three Canadians residing in Belgium and three Montrealers, bear witness to an important resurgence of Conceptual Dance over half a century after its inception as an avant-garde artistic movement. Enriched by panels, discussions and lectures, the nature and purpose of these thinking bodies and these dancing minds will be reconsidered within socio-historical frameworks.
Enrichment activities IDEA-BASED DANCES:
Thursday, February 25, 2010 | TANGENTE | Opening for the IDEA-BASED DANCES event - Discussion with the public following the Thursday night performance.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 | UNIVERSITÉ CONCORDIA, Molson School of Business, 7th floor, Studio 7-265 | Round table discussions, 11AM to 1PM.
Saturday, March 6, 2010 | TANGENTE | Pre-show conference of 20 minutes with Kirsi Monni (professor at the Finish Theatre Academy).
Kirsi Monni's Lecture (PDF)
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 | UNIVERSITÉ CONCORDIA, Molson School of Business, 7th floor, Studio 7-265 | Round table discussions, 11AM to 1PM.
Saturday, March 13, 2010 | TANGENTE | Pre-show conference of 20 minutes with Katja Schneider (professor at the Ludwig-Macimilians, Univ.
Germany).
Booklet on Conceptual Dance (PDF)
IDEA-BASED DANCES
February 25, 26, 27, 7:30 PM, February 28, 4 PM
CORPS.RELATIONS - Maria Kefirova
The body-mind split is animated by a dancer and her (virtual) talking head. An absurd in-and-out of body experience.
Bliss - Lise Vachon (Belgique)
What if we could retrieve and prolong the resonance of our favourite moments? A reflection on the suspension of time.
www.michele-noiret.be
March 2010
Ne pas se réduire à des expériences d’admiration - Caroline Dubois When an idea is personal territory, how is the space negotiated? A duet.
Solid Gold - Ula Sickle (Belgique) in association with Dinozord (RDC). A production of Rebecca September vzw (Belgique)
Looping the loop : From African dance to American hip hop and back again.
www.ulasickle.com
March 11, 12, 13, 7:30 PM, March 14, 4 PM
Now I Got Worry - Andrew Turner
A robust trio tackles faith and the absence of it. Nihilistic physicality.
Uncanny Valley - Tawny Andersen (Belgique) with Alexandre Le Petit
A physical monologue exploring the persuasive potential of the body through manipulated, displaced cinematic material.
BEING HUMAN
This thematic group of dance works brings together choreographies that are above all expressive, kinetic chronicles of the contemporary human predicament. Emotion drives the movement. Historically linked to the traditions of dance-drama and expressionism, these are choreographic compositions in which dancers portray the inner psyche and social lives of particular human beings.
Das Haus Projekt/Le Home Project - Isabel Mohn
In the world and in their home, 5 characters struggle to maintain their individuality. Society versus inner life.
SEXES
EDGY WOMEN 2010
March 22 to March 28
The Sexes series this year features the women of “Edgy”. Curator Myriam Ginestier favours transgressive performers, women who delight in shifting boundaries, playing with the limits of decency, flaunting gendered identities, emotional excesses and sometimes descent into chaos. Prepare for a wild ride.
For more details, see
: www.studio303.ca/en/events/edgy-women/
April 2010
IN LIMBO
Project in association with Compagnie de Brune - Lynda Gaudreau.
“Printemps de la Danse”, Maisons de la Culture (March-April)
Since 1995 Tangente and the Maisons de la Culture network have selected three choreographic productions from the preceding Tangente season to tour the seven to ten Maisons de la Culture in Montreal.
www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/accesculture
May 2010
RECOMMANDATION 63
April 19 to May 9
Recommandation 63
9 performances =
April 23, 24, 7:30PM, April 25, 4PM
April 30, May 1, 7:30PM, May 2, 4PM
May 7, 8, 7:30PM, May 9, 4PM
For more details, see
:http://web.mac.com/bangdebrut/
CIRCULATIONS: DANCE ROADS
Tangente joins European presenters in this 9th annual tour of the Dance Roads network to five cities. A marathon programme with new works from Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Wales and Canada. Three nights only.
Friday, May 14 to Sunday, May 16
At 7:30 PM except Sunday at 4 PM
9th annual tour of the Dance Roads - Virginie Brunelle (Montréal), Jens Van Daele (Arnheim), Lars Dahl Pedersen (Aarhus), Ambra Senatore (Torino), Cai Tomos (Cardiff).
For more details, see
:http://www.danceroads.com/
DAVE ST-PIERRE:
BIBELOT
9 performances =May 20, 21, 22 , 7:30PM
May 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 7:30PM
May 30, 4PM
With special guest =
Un jour mon père m'a dit - Sarah-Ève Grant
More details to come
PAST SHOWS
October 2009
NEW WAVES
A youthful dance generation advances, destabilizes, assembles an imaginative web of ideas about art and an ever-changing world. This annual peer-juried collection of short works by young creators, poised at the beginning of their professional life, offers brief and vivid glimpses of possible futures.
First Surging : Allison Blakley (Concordia), Barthélémy Glumineau (autodidacte), Thierry Huard (LADMMI), Andrée-Anne Ratthé (UQÀM) et Dominique Thomas (LADMMI). Invited guest: Evan Teitelbaum (The Juilliard School), chosen by Alexandra Wells, professor.
October 8, 9, 10 7:30 PM, October 11, 4 PM
Second Swells :Julia Male, Ashlea Watkin. Invited guests: Alexandra "Spicey" Landé (Coup de pouce Vue sur la relève 2008), Helen Simoneau (USA).
BEING HUMAN
This thematic group of dance works brings together choreographies that are above all expressive, kinetic chronicles of the contemporary human predicament. Emotion drives the movement. Historically linked to the traditions of dance-drama and expressionism, these are choreographic compositions in which dancers portray the inner psyche and social lives of particular human beings.
La fille sauvage de Champagne - Nadine Sures in a choerography by Deborah Dunn (Trial & Eros)
A captured wild child of the forest becomes a cultural experiment. Wry social commentary based on a true story.
www.nadinesures.com
Manteau long en laine marine porté sur un pull à encolure détendue avec un pantalon peau de pêche et des chaussures pointues en nubuck rouge - DELGADO FUCHS Marco Delgado et Nadine Fuchs (Suisse et Belgique)
Accessible but slightly indecent. Sarcastic but not static. Contradiction. Sex. Bravado. A multi character duet.
www.delgadofuchs.com
October 24, 4 PM***
October 22, 23, 24, 7:30 PM, October 25, 4 PM
Celui qui aime est à Dachau- Sophie Dalès et Francis Ducharme
Love; heaven and hell on earth. Not a pretty story.
October 29, 30, 31, 7:30 PM, November 1, 4 PM
The most together we’ve ever been - Public Recordings/Ferlin Productions, Ame Henderson (Toronto, Can.)/Matija Ferlin (Pula, Croatia)
The awkwardness and heartbreak of being together. The fragility and potential of beginnings.
www.publicrecordings.org
November 2009
BEING HUMAN
This thematic group of dance works brings together choreographies that are above all expressive, kinetic chronicles of the contemporary human predicament. Emotion drives the movement. Historically linked to the traditions of dance-drama and expressionism, these are choreographic compositions in which dancers portray the inner psyche and social lives of particular human beings.
November 19, 20, 21, 7:30 PM, November 22, 4 PM
Cible de dieu - Jacques Poulin-Denis
A balancing artist dangerously attempts the impossible. Rest assured, it's not what you think...
November 26, 27, 28, 7:30 PM, November 29, 4 PM
L’invasion du vide - Catherine Gaudet
A party. A ritual. A purging of imbalance, a release of primal energies.
December 2009
DANCES FOR THE FAMILY
These two interdisciplinary projects were created for intergenerational audiences, but particularly intended for youthful frames of mind. What is dance for young spectators if not an opportunity for choreographers to at last exercise a boundless imagination, unfettered by grown-up censorship?
Le mal de Bonamo (7 years old and more) - Serge Lafortune
An epic fable of love and combat told through theatrical movement and vast projected images.
December 12, 7:30 PM & December 13, 4 PM
Amqui (7 years old and more) - Marie-Eve Albert
4 single women, a man and their solution to a dwindling population. A tongue-in-cheek tale of rural exodus.
IMPULSIONS
In these aesthetics of the organic, the choreographers excavate bodily systems (nervous, skeletal, muscular…), liberating and shaping energetic movement qualities into distinct, personal and non-literal “languages of dance”. Although the dancer-as-human is inevitably present, these visceral dances put a palpable physicality on display. Here are the post-modern progeny of the formalist movement.
1976 -Dana Michel (BAND OF BLESS)
A work that mutates as it travels - 1976 will be remixed in each city with a change of dance partner and musician.
Press Kit (PDF)
Dana Michel
Méta - Frédéric Marier
Objects are the object. What is the reality? See, hear and experience a new take on object modified movement.
Press Kit (PDF)
Frédéric Marier
Rock Steady - Katie Ward
The violence of science. 5 dancers connect and transform in a multilayered collision of molecular and emotional energies.
CHOREO-GRAPHIC
In these seven new creations, encounters of the visual and kinetic arts take on myriad forms: flesh and light, motion and electrons, bodies and objects. In this collection of cross-disciplinary compositions, material and immaterial images are set into richly textured motion. Feasts for the eye, the body and…the mind.
Peau d'Or, sors de l'Ombre - Emmanuelle Calvé
Shedding skins; the body’s transformation. Shedding fears and connecting to innate Beauty; the soul’s journey. www.emmanuellecalve.com
the BodyHeat Zoo - Michaël Cros / La Méta-Carpe (France)
Welcome to the BodyHeat Zoo, a performance-exhibition. Please wander freely amidst the cages.
www.lametacarpe.com - http://chu-lmc.blogspot.com
Communiqué de presse (PDF)
Emmanuelle Calvé + Michaël Cros
February 4, 5, 6, 7:30 PM, February 7, 4 PM
La marche invisible - Annie Gagnon
Two works. A richly symbolic sculptural installation provides the environment for this archetypal journey.
February 11, 12, 13, 7:30 PM, February 14, 4 PM
Chaudières, déplacements et paysages - Alan Lake (Québec)
In a fantastical environment five dancers and many objects poetically distort reality.
Stuck - Marie-Claire Forté
The mutability of identity is questioned in this duet for dancer and sculptured torso.
February 18, 19, 20, 7:30 PM, February 21, 4 PM
La compagnie des Soeurs Schmutt présente Petites Pièces de poche une chorégraphie de Séverine Lombardo
Intimate dialogues between light and the moving body, as viewed by a transitory public.
www.soeurschmutt.com
La Physique - Anne Thériault
Science. Fiction. 2 teams (the blondes and the brunettes) incorporate, and skewer, the laws of physics.