The Festival TransAmériques unveiled five dance and theater performances on Thursday that will be part of the program for its 16and edition, which will take place in Montreal next spring.
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It is therefore a foretaste of the first program signed by the co-directors Martine Dennewald and Jessie Mill. And which marks the return of the international component of the festival after two years of pandemic. “Without revealing everything, we can already say that this edition will be focused on cultural diversity, and marked by commitment and political and climate awareness,” says Ms.me Dennewald, joined by The Press Thursday morning.
PHOTO TO LOVE FILLION, PROVIDED BY THE FTA
The co-directors of the Festival TransAmériques, Martine Dennewald and Jessie Mill (right)
The FTA will open on May 25 at the Jean-Duceppe Theater with Reincarnationa dance performance by Nigerian choreographer Qudus Onikeku, which probes the depths of Yoruba culture to the sound of groove music from Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city.
Will follow in the same place, at the beginning of June, the Belgian production poison lab, in which ten actresses and actors embody and divert the archives of the resistance. “From Belgium to the Congo, from France to Algeria, this brilliant documentary project at the crossroads of theater and social sciences embraces historical complexity with a lot of humour”, explain the programmers.
The co-director of the FTA is also very proud to announce the creation of the piece My name is Muhammad Ali, by Congolese author Dieudonné Niangouna. A text that connects Africa to America through the world legend of boxing. This performance by Quat’Sous and the Théâtre de La Sentinelle, directed by Tatiana Zinga Botao, Lyndz Dantiste and Philippe Racine, is co-produced by the FTA.
Make Banana Cry marks the collaboration between Toronto-based choreographers and dancers Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson and Montreal-based visual artist Dominique Pétrin. In the setting of an exhibition, a troupe of performers marches on the catwalk for a fake ” fashion show », the meaning of which is diverted to transform it into a critical happening of the image society.
Finally, the outdoor show by Californian multidisciplinary artist Lars Jan, Holoscenes, will offer the public paintings created by performers who move underwater, in a giant aquarium that will be set up on the quiet Esplanade in the Quartier des Spectacles. “It’s an awareness of the rising waters, the climate crisis, and its consequences in our daily lives”, summarizes Martine Dennewald.
PHOTO LARS JAN, PROVIDED BY THE FTA
Holoscenes
The FTA will unveil its entire programming, some twenty productions, on March 22. All information on ticketing and online shows is on the FTA website.