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Nederlands Dans Theater
4/20 - 4/23/2024


Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) is truly European contemporary dance at its finest. Innovative choreography, unique staging and athletic, technical dancers make NDT an inspiration to ...

Le Noeud
4/26

Whitehorse
12/13 - 12/14/2024

Pub Royal
12/13 - 12/22/2024

The Nutcracker
12/14 - 12/30/2024


The heart is a child awakening to the magic of the season. Light the fire in a child’s heart (and spark your own childhood wonder) ...


RELATED STORIES

Gauthier Dance Performs SWAM LAKES and MINUS 16 in May


by Stephi Wild - April 09, 2024

Danse Danse will welcome the 16 dancers of the Stuttgart company, in a program imagined by Éric Gauthier, from May 1 to 4, 2024, at Place des Arts' Théâtre Maisonneuve....

SYMPHONIE OF HEARTS Will Be Performed By Danse Danse in April


by Stephi Wild - March 12, 2024

Rhodnie Désir, winner of the 2020 Dance Grand Prix and Associate Artist of Place des Arts, will take on the challenge of a large-scale show involving 11 performers and the 60 musicians of the Orchestre Métropolitain. ...

Interview: Chase Wolfe of PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL at Salle Wilfred Pelletier, Place Des Arts


by Noelle Hannibal - March 05, 2024

Chase Wolfe was born in Texas and raised in South Carolina. He performed often as a child, but heeded his parents’ wishes and double-majored in Chinese and Chemistry. After two years working in the home fragrance industry, he took a giant leap of faith to make the arts his career. He is currently pl...

Kate Prince Brings MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE to Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts


by Stephi Wild - February 08, 2024

Danse Danse welcomes the international tour for Message In A Bottle, a production celebrating contemporary and street dance styles around the greatest hits of legendary singer Sting. Learn more about the show and find out how to get tickets here!...

Sankofa Danzafro's Dancers Bring a Monument of Afro-Colombian Literature to Life


by Stephi Wild - January 25, 2024

Sankofa Danzafro makes its electrifying Montreal debut with Detrás del sur: danzas para Manuel, an impassioned tribute to Changó el Gran Putas, the great writer Manuel Zapata Olivella's landmark novel. Presented from February 21 to 24, 2024 at Théâtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts....

MINUIT QUELQUE PART Comes to Danse Danse in February


by Stephi Wild - January 10, 2024

Minuit quelque part (Midnight Somewhere), the ambitious new creation by Lydia Bouchard and Merryn Kritzinger, will have its World Premiere at Danse Danse in Montreal on February 6 and 7, 2024. ...

tanzmainz Comes to Danse Danse This Month


by Stephi Wild - January 04, 2024

 tanzmainz, the German Staatstheater Mainz's contemporary dance company, makes its Montreal debut at Danse Danse with Soul Chain, a new work by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, also presented here for the first time. Presented January 23 to 27, 2024 at Théâtre Maisonneuve of the Place des Arts....

Kidd Pivot Returns to Danse Danse With ASSEMBLY HALL


by Stephi Wild - November 07, 2023

Following the success of Revisor (2019) and Betroffenheit (2018), Kidd Pivot–the company of acclaimed choreographer Crystal Pite–returns to Danse Danse with the highly anticipated Assembly Hall. Crystal Pite's new dance-theater creation will be presented from November 29 to December 2, 2023 at Place...

Anne Plamondon Returns To Danse Danse With The World Premiere of MYOKINE


by A.A. Cristi - October 25, 2023

Anne Plamondon and the Body as a Source of Resilience and Hope - Read about Anne Plamondon's exploration of the body as a source of resilience and hope in her latest project....

Akram Khan Company Presents JUNGLE BOOK REIMAGINED This November


by A.A. Cristi - October 04, 2023

Akram Khan reinvents 'The Jungle Book' in a new production. Find out more about this exciting adaptation of the classic story....

Past Shows

Nederlands Dans Theater
4/20 - 4/23/2024


Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) is truly European contemporary dance at its finest. Innovative choreography, unique staging and athletic, technical dancers make NDT an inspiration to ...

Bachelor
3/21 - 4/3/2024


Sasha Samar’s story is as red as the sky over Chernobyl, as red as the iron-rich soil, as red as his passion for Nadia Comaneci, ...

KOMOCO / Sofia Nappi - IMA
3/12 - 3/16/2024

KOMOCO / Sofia Nappi - IMA
3/14 - 3/16/2024

Message In A Bottle
3/12 - 3/16/2024


Final performance before Message in a Bottle is retired in New York! All proceeds donated to Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY). Its a ...

Pretty Woman: The Musical
3/5 - 3/10/2024


After an incredible run on Broadway, Audience Choice Award-winner PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL is now on tour! One of Hollywoods most beloved stories of all ...

Perles
2/23 - 2/24/2024

Chimerica
1/17 - 2/17/2024


Lucy Kirkwood; dir: David Muse....

Minuit quelque part
2/6 - 2/7/2024

tanzmainz - Soul Chain
1/23 - 1/27/2024

Salle de nouvelles
9/6 - 10/7/2023

Cendrillon
8/8 - 9/10/2023


« ...Impressionnant, beau, envoûtant, émouvant, très original, magistralement mené et merveilleusement interprété, le conte fascine et bouleverse. Les enfants comme les adultes. On ne saurait ...

Notre Dame de Paris
8/2 - 8/10/2023

Mama
7/14 - 7/19/2023


A master artist and performer, Botti, whos sold nearly three million albums worldwide, worked closely with an unparalleled roster of the worlds greatest musicians, drawing ...

Le Projet Riopelle
4/25 - 6/11/2023

Madama Butterfly - Puccini
5/6 - 5/16/2023

Ultraviolet
4/27 - 5/6/2023

Manikanetish
3/8 - 4/8/2023

Tony vend des billets
3/14 - 4/7/2023

Ainadamar - Golijov | Hwang
3/18 - 3/26/2023

Tentacle Tribe - Prism
3/21 - 3/25/2023

Les Voisins
1/20 - 1/22/2023


What better way to celebrate Les Voisins’ 40th anniversary than to dive back into the absurd and laughably realistic universe imagined by Louis Saia and ...

Come From Away
1/10 - 1/15/2023


book: David Hein and Irene Sankoff; lyrics: David Hein and Irene Sankoff; music: David Hein and Irene Sankoff; dir: Christopher Ashley. World Premiere...

The Nutcracker
12/9 - 12/30/2022


The heart is a child awakening to the magic of the season. Light the fire in a child’s heart (and spark your own childhood wonder) ...

Sleeping Beauty
6/1 - 6/5/2022

The Magic Flute
5/7 - 5/17/2022


Is it a) Ancient Egypt, b) Europe in the Age of Enlightenment, or c) a land beyond our imagination? The answer is: d) all of ...

Luna
4/28 - 5/1/2022

Roméo et Juliette
3/23 - 3/27/2022


Classical Theatre...

CATS
3/8 - 3/13/2022


Cats is a record-breaking musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on T. S. Eliot's 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats . ...

A Nordic Tale
2/11 - 3/4/2022

Requiem
2/24 - 2/27/2022


The work, although a Latin Requiem Mass, was inspired by a tragic article Andrew read in the New York Times about a Cambodian boy who ...

Ladies Night
2/3 - 2/4/2022


BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! The famous cast of unemployed characters lands at the Capitole After more than 125 sold-out performances throughout Québec, and by popular ...

EVA_D
1/21

Frida Kahlo correspondance
11/1 - 11/2/2021

Design intérieur
6/16 - 6/20/2021

Stations
6/9 - 6/13/2021

Notre Dame de Pari
8/12 - 8/15/2020


The smash-hit French musical returns to Montreal for a special serie of performances, after an outstanding success touring in Quebec, for Notre Dame de Paris’ ...

Les Voisins
1/23 - 1/25/2020


What better way to celebrate Les Voisins’ 40th anniversary than to dive back into the absurd and laughably realistic universe imagined by Louis Saia and ...

L'origine de mes espèces
11/28 - 12/7/2019

Come From Away
11/26 - 12/1/2019


COME FROM AWAY tells the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ...

Héritage
9/4 - 10/5/2019

Broue
9/26 - 9/28/2019

Doktor Glas
Doktor Glas
4/27 - 4/28/2018


Adapted from Hjalmar Söderberg's novel, published in 1905, Doktor Glas is a tour de force. Alone on stage, Krister Henriksson embodies the romantic and lonely ...

Svadba
Svadba
3/24 - 3/31/2018


Music that is imaginative, daring, haunting, and seductive… a distillation of emotion and imagination. Six women, alone on stage......

Amok
Amok
2/22 - 2/25/2018

Requiem
Requiem
2/21 - 2/25/2018


The Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg presents a double Requiem: one set to Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8, the other to Mozart’s unfinished work. A ...


In the Census of the Saint-Élie-de-Caxton legendary, the Barber is at the top of... The Barber, MoE. He who held bun on main street for ...


The Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir is back with its annual Gospel Celebration! Dr. Trevor W. Payne is proud to lead this internationally renowned Gospel ensemble ...

François Léveillé
9/13 - 9/14/2013

André Sauvé
7/12 - 7/20/2013


After exploring successfully areas of everyday madness in his first show, André Sauvé continues his quest on the inexhaustible theme of living with being. It ...


Danny of the Temple and Brigitte Lemay invite you to an evening of high emotions and memories. Your hosts wish you charm and bewitch you ...

Dream Away
5/16 - 5/25/2013


After the success of Thoss’ Searching for Home, which the Montreal Gazette named Best Dance Show of 2011, Gradimir Pankov, the Artistic Director of Les ...

Manon
5/18 - 5/25/2013


A classic of the French opera repertoire… a mix of levity and gravity, the reflection of its moving and carefree heroine. In the title role: ...


Maurice Duruflé’s superb Requiem follows the example set by Fauré, albeit with a few differences, including the use of Gregorian melodies and a slightly more ...


Giorgia Fumanti returns to Place des Arts –a concert full of beauty, charisma and enchantment. An angelic, crystalline voice that leaves an indelible mark on ...

Le Diable rouge
4/10 - 4/27/2013


In 1658, Mazarin, cardinal of his State, Prime Minister of the Regent Anne of Austria, reigns over the Kingdom of France. Knowing suffering from an ...

Sinha Dans
4/17 - 4/27/2013


The choreography of the one is touching, the music of the other enchanting. Roger Sinha (Sinha Danse) and Kiya Tabassian (Constantinople) have merged their immense ...

Sunya
4/17 - 4/27/2013


The choreography of the one is touching, the music of the other enchanting. Roger Sinha (Sinha Danse) and Kiya Tabassian (Constantinople) have merged their immense ...

Cow-boys
4/26


True anthology of the country, Cowboys, Québec Issime country will make you travel Willie to Dolly, through all the great names of this musical taste! ...

Old Maid, Amahl
4/13 - 4/20/2013


Visitors, beggars, stolen money... A double bill featuring the young opera singers of the Atelier lyrique, with stage direction, sets, and costumes....

Till Fellner & Beethoven's
4/16 - 4/17/2013


Anton Bruckner described his Sixth Symphony as the boldest of all of them. Performed in its entirety only posthumously, under Gustav Mahler, it is known ...

Elton John
4/10 - 4/14/2013


At the invitation of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, the Alberta Ballet is presenting an electrifying work based on the songs of Elton John. ...


At the invitation of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, the Alberta Ballet is presenting an electrifying work based on the songs of Elton John. ...


Named BBC’s Young Musician of the Year in 2004, violinist Nicola Benedetti has captivated audiences and critics with her performances and poise, leading the Independent ...


At first, you must walk, following the little path of shells and stones that circles around a large tent made of sheets. A harmonica can ...


At first, you must walk, following the little path of shells and stones that circles around a large tent made of sheets. A harmonica can ...

Autorretrato
4/4 - 4/6/2013


With undeniable panache comes carefully polished and highly personalized flamenco in the form of the great María Pagés, who will be gracing the stage of ...

Vous êtes libres
4/4 - 4/6/2013


“You’re free.” These words can elicit all manner of reaction: relief, a geyser of desires, a great shout, a great whisper, a dizzy spell. “You’re ...

The Light Between
3/26 - 3/30/2013


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 ...


On August 29, 2012, Elvis fans across Quebec were invited to enter the singing contest by submitting a video showing that they were able to ...

Danz & Toot
3/14 - 3/23/2013


Choreographers Ohad Naharin (Israel) and Didy Veldman (The Netherlands) are sharing the bill, each making full use of the technical versatility and interpretive powers of ...


Choreographers Ohad Naharin (Israel) and Didy Veldman (The Netherlands) are sharing the bill, each making full use of the technical versatility and interpretive powers of ...


Atma the dove uses storytelling, music, and activities to take us along on a musical journey with Baro, the Roma traveller who leaves India to ...


Atma the dove uses storytelling, music, and activities to take us along on a musical journey with Baro, the Roma traveller who leaves India to ...

Dead Man Walking
3/9 - 3/16/2013


In its big Quebec premiere: a powerful, leading work of today’s opera repertoire—acclaimed the world over—and a strong appeal against the death penalty. The true ...


For a second season, the OSM is inviting you to experience the Beyond the Score™ series of concerts. In the first part of the concert, ...

Dead Man Walking
3/9 - 3/14/2013


In its big Quebec premiere: a powerful, leading work of today’s opera repertoire—acclaimed the world over—and a strong appeal against the death penalty. The true ...


Leading a dazzling career since her Grand Prize at the Montreal International Musical Competition in 2002, Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman revisits the OSM in the ...


A light-hearted, gentle and highly visual new show for 2 to 5 year old featuring fruit, vegetables and original music....

Les Muses orphelines
2/20 - 3/9/2013


We are in 1965. The frame of the piece is structured around the character of Isabelle Tanguay, 27 years, deficient intellectual. Isabelle was a young ...

T.R.A.S.H.
3/5 - 3/9/2013


First time in Montreal! Originating in the underground punk rock scene in Tilburg, Holland, the Dutch company T.r.a.s.h. stands out with strident, theatrical work that ...

Carte Blanche
2/28 - 3/2/2013


Norway’s leading contemporary dance company will be featured at Danse Danse in their first visit to Canada. Twelve dancers will be presenting Corps de Walk, ...


For one night only, singing sensation CELTIC WOMAN, brings their latest show to Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier on Monday, February 25, 2013. Under the distinct musical direction ...


The National Ballet of China has been invited by Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal to present Raise the Red Lantern, a brilliant adaptation of ...

Porcelaine
2/23

Voca People
2/22 - 2/23/2013


The Voca People are friendly aliens from the planet Voca, somewhere behind the sun, where all communication is made by music and vocal expressions. The ...


The world of circus arts has its global capitals: Paris in Europe, Montréal here… And in South America, Buenos Aires has its sights set on ...


It is a unique journey on the Silk Road, where dragons and phoenix are reborn. It is a celebration of the Chinese New Year, which ...


Bharati is more than just a performance. Back after sold out performances last year, Bharati is a wonderful tour through the diversity of colours, aromas, ...


Bharati is more than just a performance. Back after sold out performances last year, Bharati is a wonderful tour through the diversity of colours, aromas, ...


Every day, Flonflon has fun singing and playing the cymbals with his band. One day, while resting peacefully with his friends the Sleepwalkers, the clown-like ...


Claudine Ledoux and Olga Gross invite you to dream with music for harp and voice taken from their most recent CD, Après le jour. The ...


Land of great heart and promise, the USA produced a significant number of important composers during the last century. The American Dream found expression through ...

La Verita
La Verita
1/17 - 2/3/2013


Written and directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca (Rain, Corteo, Donka), the show will offer a theatrical and acrobatic exploration of the life and work of ...

Homoblablatus
1/16 - 1/26/2013


They wowed Montreal audiences in 2010, and now they’re back once again! The dancer Myriam Allard and the singer Hedi “El Moro” Graja will be ...

Shen Yun 2013
1/3 - 1/6/2013


Let SHEN YUN take you on a journey through 5,000 years of divinely inspired culture: A journey where the wisdom of ancient China, the world's ...


A magnificent re-creation of Vienna’s world famous New Year’s Concert featuring a stellar cast of over 75 musicians, European singers and charming dancers. Ring in ...

Pinocchio
12/22 - 12/30/2012


Following the internationally acclaimed Alice in Wonderland, Théâtre Tout à Trac revisits in its unique way Collodi’s tale about the most famouspuppet: PINOCCHIO. Born out ...

Boo !
12/2


Boo!, the Sursaut Dance Company's most recent creation, is composed of short choreographic works presented as a succession of ludic tableaux. Vivacity, sensitivity and ingenuity ...

Les Grandes Ballets Presente Kaguyahime, Princesse de la Lune


East meets West in the first full-scale narrative ballet by Czech master choreographer Ji?i Kylian. This adaptation of the Japanese folk tale The Bamboo Cutter ...

MARY POPPINS
11/21 - 11/25/2012


Based on P.I. Travers cherished stories and the classic 1964 Walt Disney film, Mary Poppins features the Sherman brothers original Academy Award-winning songs. The show ...

Du Bon Monde


Bienvenue à Southie, un quartier de Boston où une belle sortie dans le monde consiste à aller au bingo… où le chèque de paie du ...

Therese et Pierrette a l'ecole des Saints-Anges


Nous sommes dans les années 40, au Québec, dans une école de jeunes filles en sixième année alors qu’on se prépare pour la Fête-Dieu. Thérèse, ...

La Traviata
La Traviata
9/15 - 9/22/2012


Après les succès de Rigoletto (2010) et d’Il trovatore (2011), l’Opéra de Montréal conclut sa présentation de la « Trilogie populaire » de Verdi. Inspiré ...

The National Youth Orchestra Canada


The National Youth Orchestra Canada is the country’s leading training organization for aspiring young orchestral musicians. Selecting only the most gifted musicians from across the ...

Festival Juste Pour Rire
Festival Juste Pour Rire
7/4 - 7/28/2012

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