PLACE DES ARTS - CINQUIÈME SALLE

A compelling and remarkably inventive stage performer, Shay Kuebler creates hybrid works that combine dance, martial arts and theatricality. In Telemetry he has imagined the ...

A grand premiere at Danse Danse. The impetuous choreographer Dave St-Pierre is inspired by the heroic Joan of Arc in an illuminating piece about the ...

This duo charmed audiences with its innovative, organic movement in a fusion of street dance and contemporary dance during his visit to Danse Danse 2014-15 ...

A New Yorker born in Puerto Rico, Bryan Arias draws inspiration from both popular social dance styles and great contemporary choreographers who made an impact ...

Since its creation in 2006, and each of its representations, dazzling poetry show causes the same tsunami of love. By popular demand, Poetry, sandwiches and ...

This funny, impish, scientifically-factual “conference” written by Jean-Claude Carrière and played by Isabella Rossellini, is sometimes interrupted by two-minute movies where Isabella Rossellini herself interprets ...

A space where experimentation and bold ideas are given free rein, Les Grands Ballets’ choreography workshop is an opportunity for the company’s dancers to explore ...

The charismatic choreographer and dancer MYRIAM ALLARD and the singer and director HEDI GRAJA proudly present their reinvented flamenco in a new piece entitled Moi&lesAutres. ...

See this time-honoured classic as you’ve never seen it before. Based on the novel by Charles Dickens, this production features well know Christmas carols, performed ...

Popping, hip-hop, house, waacking, krump... les danses urbaines montent sur scène à la Place des Arts. Les 11 créateurs de la cuvée 2015 y présenteront ...

Neither the magnetism of JOSÉ NAVAS nor the admiration of his devoted fans in Quebec have dimmed with the passing of time. On the contrary, ...

After having travelled across Quebec and throughout French Canada with his show Les pourquoi over the last two years, Benoît Archambault is back with the ...

A landmark dance piece in the history of Quebec choreography, Bagne has touched thousands of spectators on both sides of the Atlantic, and its impressive ...

An unusual universe is set in Animal, a powerful five-performer piece, where stage design challenges the laws of gravity. The scenes unfold as pictures and ...

Our Hybridity and Emergence presentations showcase the talent of some of our most promising choreographic artists. Creativity, originality and passion all describe the talent of ...

Four light-filled realities, four established creators, fours worlds: an atypical sampling of today’s contemporary dance tinged with their various paths....

A Danse Danse / Place des Arts co-presentation “His style is strong and singular, and his choreography goes beyond the frontiers of movement. With Là-bas, ...

A Danse Danse / Place des Arts co-presentation “The balletic bouts of speedy steps, jabbed limbs and torqued torsos are choreographed in strict rotational symmetry ...

Three women share the same stage without ever meeting. Although they come close physically, they remain invisible to one other. Their only connections are their ...

A Danse Danse / Place des Arts co-presentation “Prismes, with its playful spirit, its orgy of colour, its outrageous soundtrack and its exuberant dancers is ...

A Danse Danse / Place des Arts co-presentation “Emmanuelle Lê Phan and Elon Höglund (…) join forces in a magical osmosis with movement that is ...

This is the story of a young singer who, on the morning of an important concert, finds — Good Heavens! — that she has lost ...

Erin Wall is one of the most versatile sopranos of her generation, with an extensive repertoire that spans three centuries. She has sung in the ...

At the 15th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in 2005, Polish pianist Rafa? Blechacz won not only First Prize but four additional prizes as well. ...

In a remote estate eighteen years after the end of apartheid, a single night unfolds among a black farm laborer, his “master’s” daughter, and the ...

A key figure in the alternative scene in Toronto, the extravagant D.A. Hoskins unleashes conventional or totally unexpected images that could be associated with the ...

Created as a tribute to Norman McLaren, the pioneer filmmaker, this production takes us on a journey of initiation into McLaren’s playful animated landscapes in ...

In a carpentry workshop, two somewhat naïve characters are cobbling something together. Tucked away in their little sheltered space, they dream that one day they’ll ...

In this brilliant solo on the theme of dementia, the German choreographer Helena Waldmann takes the audience on an emotional journey, subtly playing with theatricality ...

Plume is lively, chatty, and cheerful. Taciturne, on the other hand, doesn’t say much, but he watches and listens instead. His passion is music. They ...

In Circus Incognitus, Jamie brings his talents to bear on the story of a man who has written a teriffic new show. When he wanders ...

In this choreographed tragicomedy, an elderly couple aged 94 and 95 years, seeking relief from their boredom, solitude and isolation, create a lineup of invisible ...

A past master in the art of creating hybrid forms that mix elements of classical, contemporary and urban street dance, the Montrealer of American and ...

Performed by 5 musicians from various groups on the Quebec music scene, Henri Godon’s music is taken through a range of styles: jazz, traditional, swing, ...

A pillar of Australian contemporary dance, Lucy Guerin presents choreography of enchanting beauty in an inventive set design that highlights the effects of our choices ...

In the dizzying density and the radical indecency of Duras words, something appeals directly to the uncompromising theatre of Christian Lapointe. Both constantly probe the ...