Danse Danse has unveiled its programming for the 2022-23 season, celebrating its quarter-century of existence at the same time.
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The Montreal broadcaster does not disappoint with several large international guest companies that will tread the boards of Montreal stages, accompanied by troops from here whose reputation is second to none.
Already unveiled a few weeks ago, the season opening show will allow you to see one of the iconic pieces of the great Pina Bausch, The Rite of Spring, a joint production of the Pina Bausch Foundation (Germany), École des Sables (Senegal) and Sadler’s Wells (United Kingdom), with some thirty performers from 14 African countries on stage. The choreographer will be in the spotlight again in February, this time with the arrival of the Tanztheater Wuppertal company with the piece Palermo Palermolegendary work by Pina Bausch, for 23 performers.
The rest of the season promises to be just as rich and exhilarating with the presence of Italian choreographer Silvia Gribaudi and her creation Grace, which questions beauty by shattering codes and stereotypes with fine self-mockery (October 11 to 15). Always very popular with Montreal audiences, Hofesh Shechter returns with the play Double Murder which unfolds to original music signed by the English choreographer himself. Virtuosity, tribal and contagious energy will be there (November 2 to 5).
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Colossus will bring together no less than 60 dancers on stage.
In March, Montreal will receive the visit of Stephanie Lake, presented as a figurehead of Australian dance. Colossusa piece that brings together 60 bodies on a teeming stage, explores the joy and excitement of the collective experience.
On the local side, we will have the chance to see the brand new creation of the always relevant Virginie Brunelle, in December. Fable promises to be one of the company’s most ambitious pieces to date, with 12 performers accompanied by a pianist on stage. With a backdrop of an era marked by chaos, the work projects the viewer into storytelling spaces from which larger-than-life characters emerge.
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Marie Chouinard will present “M” in early 2023.
What better way to kick off the new year than to dip your toe into the always fascinating world of choreographer Marie Chouinard? “M”the new opus of this exceptional creator who was part, for the record, of the very first program of Danse Danse, is orchestrated by a soundtrack whose raw material is the breath of the 12 dancers (January 31 to February 4 ).
The public will also be able to drink in new works by two Montreal companies that have made their mark by marrying contemporary and urban aesthetics, namely Tentacle Tribles with Prism (March 21 to 25) then Rubberband, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary with the creation Reckless Underdog by choreographer Victor Quijada (April 12 to 15). Outside the walls, Danse Danse will also host Patin Libre in December with its play Whisperwith no less than 15 artists-skaters-dancers on the ice!
Canadian companies will also be there: the Vancouver troupe Shay Kuebler with MOI-Momentum of Isolationwhich delves into the phenomenon of loneliness (November 8-12), as well as Toronto’s Red Sky Performance, which continues to present its unique Indigenous contemporary dance with the piece Miigis: The Water Panther (February 14 to 18).