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A dance conference that is as playful as it is educational, Destination Danse was imagined by choreographer Dominique Porte, in collaboration with playwright Armande Menicacci and the performers of this new creation intended for 8-year-olds and over, which will be presented on February 4 at 4 p.m. ‘Agora of Dance. By presenting the history of dance in a visual and animated way and by drawing inspiration from the personal stories of the dancers, the creation aims to arouse curiosity about the profession of dancer and share the pleasure of movement.

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Music and the seventh art will go hand in hand on Friday at the Maison symphonique with the presentation of the concert The symphonic universe of cinema. Presented by the FILMharmonique ensemble, under the direction of Francis Choinière, this show brings together some of the most beautiful tunes heard in cinema, including pieces from Schindler’s List, Cinema Paradiso and somewhere in time (especially the Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini of Rachmaninoff). Pieces by Quebec composer François Dompierre are also on the program. The show moves to Quebec on Saturday, then to Sherbrooke on February 23.

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The Cyr wheel is in the spotlight from February 2 to 4 at La Tohu. Compagnie 7Bis, which aims to be a link between Europe and South America, offers Diptych, a circus show composed of two independent solos of 30 minutes each. Their titles: Lontano and Instante. The two dancers and acrobats Juan Ignacio Tula and Marica Marinoni offer dialogues between the body and the wheel that are intended to be “poignant and hypnotic. » A show exclusively devoted to the Cyr wheel, intended for an audience of 6 years and over.

Stephanie Morin, The Press

The Center du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui welcomes the play Clandestines which stars Alexandre Bergeron and Diane Lavallée. The action takes place in Montreal in 2025, a time when doctors are increasingly reluctant to perform abortions and pro-life movements are increasingly present. “Separated into two very distinct acts in tone and cast, Clandestines is unquestionably one of the strongest texts written by the duo of authors Marie-Ève ​​Milot and Marie-Claude St-Laurent”, mentions our journalist Stéphanie Morin in her review published on January 29. However, you have to act quickly to get tickets.

Multidisciplinary and immersive performance presented under the dome of the SAT until February 3, Cloud Bodysuits, imagined by Allison Moore, combines live audiovisual creation and choreography. Captured live, dancer Lucy Fandel’s movements become geometric metadata projected onto the dome, body movements merging with digital landscapes in this virtual space. When the topography of bodies mutates into the topography of the natural world…

Iris Gagnon-Paradise, The Press

the maker, contemporary adaptation of the play Mercadet or The maker by Honoré de Balzac, is presented at the Théâtre Denise-Pelletier. Mercadet, a cunning speculator, lives only to make money. The play explains the story of this financier who will lead his family into his delirium. ” Whether the maker remains a comedy for young and less young audiences, its evocation of the excesses of financial capitalism, its demonstration of the great emptiness of a humanity where everything is only haggling, its surreal vision of our world carried by the lure of gain, illusioned by the money, give this adaptation an air of dystopia. Because this text has something to think about, ”explains our critic Luc Boulanger.

Canadian filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg offers us, for his third feature, a science fiction thriller. One-novel author James (Alexander Skarsgård) and his wife (Cleopatra Coleman) meet Gabi (Mia Goth) and her husband Alban (Jalil Lespert) on a trip to an Eastern European seaside resort. This getaway, which should at first sight inspire the writer, will take an unexpected turn. Director Brandon Cronenberg “succeeds in creating a disturbing, suffocating, anxiety-provoking atmosphere, thanks to a production that is alternately nervous and atmospheric, with jerky images and psychedelic slow-motion. The haunting music adds to this impression of oppression and anguish,” says our columnist Marc Cassivi.

Living is the remake from the movie Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa, which tells the story of a widowed civil servant suffering from cancer who seeks to find meaning in his life. British actor Bill Nighy (Love Actually, Pirates of the Caribbean) personifies the man with a masterful hand. His performance earned him a nomination for the next Oscars. “South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus uses contrasts to recall the beauty of the world, accentuating its hope. His refined staging pays as much homage to old English classics as to Kurosawa, whose editing effects he borrows, taking care of each of his shots while calling on the elegant music of Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch”, explains our collaborator Martin Gignac.