Programming of the Agora de la danse | Dance time

The meeting of disciplines, origins, aesthetics and generations is on the menu for the new season of the Agora de la danse, which launches under the sign of hybridity.

The event

We will have to wait until the end of the season, in December, to dive into BOGOTÁwork by Andrea Peña and Artists, presented at the opening of the 17^e Venice Biennale in July 2023. The piece, which is described as radical and innovative, carried by a breath of magical realism and a queer aesthetic, is also a co-presentation between Danse Danse and Agora de la danse. Revisiting the colonial past of her country of origin, through the cycle of death and resurrection, she bears the hybrid signature of the Canadian-Colombian artist, whose career draws as much on dance as on design industrial. An installation work with teeming plasticity, like the Colombian capital whose name it bears.

From December 11 to 14 at the Wilder Building

We are intrigued

His name may be familiar to you, because Soleil Launière won the 28^are Francouvertes, last May. But the Innu multidisciplinary artist has several talents. Singing, dancing, performance, theater are part of her playground. At the Agora, she will present the performance Aianishkat, meaning “from one generation to the next”. Generational transmission is the breadcrumb trail of this creation which will bring together on stage Soleil’s 1-year-old daughter, her 70-year-old mentor and a double bassist. The sum of all these presences, in an environment where a young child obviously brings unpredictability, is enough to pique curiosity.

From October 2 to 16 at the Wilder Building

And also…

We will also be curious to witness the contrasting meeting between the established Quebec choreographer Danièle Desnoyers and Taoufiq Izeddiou, an important figure in Moroccan dance, who will compare their writings to perhaps create a new one in the quartet Montreal-Marrakesh (September 18-20). The very creative duo behind the company Out Inner Space (British Columbia) is also back in Montreal with a new creation (name to come, from October 23 to 26).

Consult the program