Photo : Martin Messier
SEPTEMBER 8th 2011 from 7:30 p. m. @ Fonderie Darling, 745 rue Ottawa (inter)
$16 pre-sale/$20 at the door
Our summer artists-in-residence The Choreographers and Caroline Laurin-Beaucage (with Martin Messier) feature in a multidisciplinary event at the Fonderie Darling. They take over a former industrial space with French performers Olivier Dubois and Franck Dadure, and Montreal visual [...]
SEPTEMBER 30th 2011 at 5 : 30 pm/followed by a talk back session and a cocktail @ Studio 303 (danse/inter)
Free!
A collective ritual influenced by Butoh and Mexican tradition. The ritual propose a transformation of basic human archetypes into an expansive, subtle, and mystical movements with the butoh and mexicans tradition influence.
As part of [...]
Photo : Elena Zhukova
OCTOBER 22nd at 6 p. m. + OCTOBER 23rd 2011 at 4 p. m. @ Studio 303 (dance)
$15 reg. ($20 fair-trade/$12 pre-sale, RQD, RAIQ, students)
Two sets of local and international artists explore harmony and estrangement.
In Compasses, Felons and Carnal Knowledge by Angus Balbernie and Guillaume Chouinard, 2 men meet on stage, after 22 years. One [...]
Photo: Marie-Pier Théberge
NOVEMBER 3-5, 2011 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. @ Eastern Bloc, 7240 Clark st. (inter)
3 round table discussions, each night at 6:30 p.m.
Free!
Get in the game!
J.E.U.X. is a trans-disciplinary project exploring the concept of games as a theme and/or form: what role do games play in an artistic context and how does the spectator/user [...]
Photo : Marian Ivanov
NOVEMBER 11-12th 2011 at 8 pm
Venue : Théâtre La Chapelle, 3700 Ste-Dominique (inter)
Tickets : from $20 to $33
There is a list of 100 topics (subjects, objects or people) Dimchev feels related in this or another way. The performance is based on some favorite ones from The list. In space, white as a museum, armed [...]
Photo : Kai Meyer
NOVEMBER 26th at 6 pm + NOVEMBER 27th 2011 at 4 pm @ Studio 303 (danse)
$15 reg. ($20 fair-trade/$12 pre-sale, RQD, RAIQ, students)
Andrew Tay and Sasha Kleinplatz (Wants&Needs danse) are back to Studio 303 to curate a night where the public becomes implicated in the performances!
Now in it’s 3rd edition, Involved features dance works which [...]
Photo : Steven Horwood
DECEMBER 10th at 6 pm + DECEMBER 11th 2011 at 4 pm @ Studio 303 (inter)
$15 reg. ($20 fair-trade/$12 pre-sale, RQD, RAIQ, students)
An explosion of honesty, révélation, desire, with a glimpse of what is possible.
A multi-disciplinary collective creation based on the idea of building a utopian community in one night. A performance [...]
Photo : Michael Reinhart
JANUARY 13-15 & 20-22 2012 @ 661 Rose de Lima/metro Lionel-Groulx (inter)
From 6 p. m. to 9 p. m.
$20 at the door/$15 pre-sale, students (limited seating!)
In an old railway building, in the dark, dreams intertwine with memories, and audiences find themselves immersed in a world of winter. Welcome to Janvier, a mesmerizing performance installation by [...]
Photo : Axel Lamal
JANUARY 21st at 6 pm + JANUARY 22nd 2012 at 4 pm @ Studio 303 (dance)
$15 reg. ($20 fair-trade/$12 pre-sale, RQD, RAIQ, students)
US performance artist Scott Heron and Belgium-based, Swiss choreographer Thomas Hauert make performances that seem, on the surface, quite different: Hauert is admired for his improvisation-based choreographic language while Heron makes singular works [...]
Photo : Company TchéTché
FEBRUARY 3RD 2012 @ Studio 303
OPENING OF ASCEN/DANSES
From 5 : 30 p. m. (movie screening at 6 : 30 p. m.)
Screening of MOVEMENT (R)EVOLUTION AFRICA by Joan Frosch, performances and reception
Gratuit!
Movie screening of Movement (R)evolution Africa (65min, 2007) and launching of the Ascen/Danses project. In an astonishing exposition of choreographic fomentation, nine African choreographers from [...]
Photo : David Chedore/Cylla Von Tiedemann
FEBRUARY 4th at 6 pm + FEBRUARY 5th 2012 at 4 pm @ Studio 303 (danse)
$15 reg. ($20 fair-trade/$12 pre-sale, RQD, RAIQ, students)
A collaboration between Studio 303, Tangente, Agora de la danse, Circuit-est centre choréographique, Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata and MAI. This exciting event is curated by Lys Stevens.
For the complete Ascen/danses schedule, click [...]
FEBRUARY 25th 2012 FROM 10 PM @ Studio 303 (inter)
Free!
Spend an extraordinary night in company of Studio 303 and artist/social engineer Sherwin Tjia! A unique event not to be missed during the famous Montreal All Nighter. Throughout the night, Studio 303 will host a unifying and amazing interactive experience for the throngs of art-goers in [...]
Photo : R. Kelly Clipperton
MARCH 16-31 2012 (inter)
Presented by Studio 303, Edgy Women has blossomed from a 4-day event into a full-blown international festival, featuring a plethora of neophyte and experienced artists in a diverse programme of cutting edge work which is both experimental AND entertaining. Through its performance series, artist talks, and professional workshops, Edgy Women creates a [...]
Photo : David Hawe
MAY 2012 @ location TBC (inter)
Free!
Quench your curiosity at the Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar! Audiences are invited to ‘quench their curiosity’ by tasting samples of pasteurized human breast milk at The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar, an interactive performance art piece conceived and presented by Jess Dobkin. Participants have the opportunity to sample small [...]
Photo : Sarah Bronsard & Béryl Breuil
JUNE 2 at 6 p. m. & JUNE 3 2012 at 4 p. m. @ Studio 303 (dance)
$15 reg. ($20 fair-trade/$12 pre-sale, RQD, RAIQ, students)
A living moving picture of memories light and dark, metarmophosis and imago. Sarah Chase and Alanna Kraaijeveld are inspired by experimental film artists of the 50’s and 60’s. Kraaijeveld commissions Chase [...]
Photo : Thierry Francis
JUNE 2012 @ Location TBC (inter)
Facing with unyielding singularity of vision, the impossible quest before them, Myths and Machines will probe the nature of being a man in a world that is never as finite as we were told it would be… Immersed in a world of re-constructed attempts to understand the human condition through [...]
Photo : Celia Spenard-Ko
JUNE 2012 @ Bain St-Michel, 5300 Ste-Dominique
Once again, Andrew Tay and Sasha Kleinplatz (Wants&Needs danse) curate one of the annual Montreal Fringe Festival favourite with a bunch of exciting new choreographers. Spotlight on the underground performance scene in Montreal.
ARTISTS’ BIOGRAPHIES
Wants&Needs danse is constantly seeking out innovative ways of presenting work outside of the [...]
