The Light Between at Place des Arts

Ambassador extraordinary for Canadian modern dance, Margie Gillis recently received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for lifetime artistic achievement. The grande dame returns to the stage with a new piece that is the fruit of a lifetime of artistic questioning. Consisting of solos, duos and trios, the dance unfolds in a modular stage set by Randal Newman, an internationally renowned painter and sculptor and someone with whom Gillis long dreamed of working. Light and luminous, the piece is a revelation of all the hope that is so much a part of poignant human vulnerability. Fluid and deeply moving.