FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES Runs now thru June 9

From today, May 24 to June 9, 2012 the Festival TransAmériques (FTA) will set the city of Montreal ablaze with 28 diverse dance, theatre and performance art productions from Canada, the United States and abroad.

The Festival TransAmériques will bring together under the same banner, artists from Quebec, from all across Canada, and from a dozen other countries including The United States, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal and Switzerland. Also, for the very first time, the FTA will be presenting works from Iraq, Morocco and Slovenia. In addition to artists making a return to Montreal such as choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the man of the theatre Romeo Castellucci, the Nature Theater of Oklahoma with a totally new form of musical, and the Italian company Motus and their two shows featuring a very contemporary Antigone, festivalgoers will encounter the work of Iraqi director Mokhallad Rasem, the Moroccan dance pioneer Taoufiq Izeddiou and the Croatian director Oliver Frlji?. This year’s edition features seven world premières, nine North American premières, four Canadian premières and four Quebec premières.

A showcase for exciting work, the FTA program includes new pieces by Nicolas Cantin, Mélanie Demers, Danièle Desnoyers, Clara Furey and Benoît Lachambre, Daniel Léveillé, Emmanuel Schwartz, Annabel Soutar, Julie Andrée T. and Isabelle Van Grimde, ready to be discovered by a sensitive and informed audience. In keeping with its reputation for taking over the public space with brilliant élan and originality, the FTA will be presenting, free of charge, the amazing performance-installation x-fois gens chaise – featuring ten senior citizens perched twenty feet above the sidewalks of the Latin Quarter! – as well as the intriguing Dance with Me at the Georges Émile Lapalme exposition space at Place des Arts.

Renowned as a space for meeting, exchange, reflection and festivities, the Festival will be organizing 10 get-togethers with artists at its Quartier général – at noon or from 5 to 7 p.m. – and will also be inviting artists and audience alike to join in many an exciting evening with no less than seven special events on hand. And, as a complement to the program, four films will be presented at the Cinémathèque québécoise.

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