Etiket: TransAmériques
“I Am From Reyjavik” at the Festival TransAmériques: “Being there”
Because she is black and a woman, her only presence is often resistance. And it is to express her resistance that the performer Sonia Hughes set up the installation I…
Sandra O’Connor named co-general director of the Festival TransAmériques
A trio of women now runs the Festival TransAmériques (FTA). Sandra O’Connor is appointed co-executive director and administrative director of the FTA. Posted at 3:47 p.m. She succeeds David Lavoie…
Catarina and the beauty of killing fascists | Tiago Rodrigues at the TransAmériques Festival
Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues, who is also the current president of the Avignon Festival, will be visiting Montreal next spring as part of the TransAmériques Festival. Published yesterday at 1:30…
Review of Encantado at the Festival TransAmériques | new reign
Brazilian Lia Rodrigues is back at the FTA for the first time since 2011 with Enchantedan exalted performance-piece carried by a swarm of colored fabrics calling for all sorts of…
Festival TransAmériques: Promoting age diversity in dance
For his 17e edition, the Festival TransAmériques (FTA) is offering two shows this year that highlight bodies of different ages. THE bboyCrazy Smooth even devotes the subject of his play…
Unveiling of the Festival TransAmériques | A festival open to the world
The artistic co-directors of the Festival TransAmériques, Martine Dennewald and Jessie Mill, unveiled, at the end of the day on Tuesday, the complete program of its 17e editing. This will…
The greatness and misery of the resistance movements at the Festival TransAmériques
“The show is very accessible, what happens between the set and our audience is quite direct and fun. But the subject is not! It’s all about flushing out, [de démystifier]…
Unease in civilization at the Festival TransAmériques | Philosophy in the mess ★★
First collaboration between Alix Dufresne (Hidden Paradise) and Etienne Lepage (The logic of the worst), the creation of Civilization malaise, Saturday night at the Festival TransAmériques, looks like a test…
[Grand angle] Festival TransAmériques: denouncing the sacking of the territory and peoples
Art as a tool of social and political denunciation: this is what several artists of the 16and edition of the Festival TransAmériques (FTA), notably Maryse Goudreau, Lars Jan or even…
[Grand angle] Festival TransAmériques: fertile back and forth between the book and the performance
“We didn’t think she would save the world at all; we thought, on the other hand, that it was the only way not to escape from it. This is one…