While witnessing Danses vagabondes, a performance by Louise Lecavalier of Montreal at the 19th FTA, it’s impossible not to think about Beckett, both in his characters and in his television pieces, and not because Lecavalier’s movement was similar, but because I sense it’s something Beckett would have wanted to achieve. Also, there are several elements […]

The title of the piece plays with the word «unnerving» and the construction «un-nevering». The work begins with an absence, more precisely by manifesting an absence when choreographer and creator Thea Patterson shares with the audience that the starting point of what we are about to witness is the death of her partner and the […]

Every year, the TransAmériques Festival (FTA) brings together international creators and audiences, but it doesn’t neglect the local and national scene. This is a commitment clearly reflected in its programming in which I sensed an interest in sharing the work of relevant creators on the Montreal scene such as Millepertuis, a solo piece created especially […]

Over my stay in Montreal more than 25,000 people have been evacuated from three Canadian provinces due to wildfires. On the local news, the chief firefighter says they are overwhelmed, that they couldn’t handle one more fire and that climate change has modified its behavior. I´m feeling like the meme: it’s not just the fires, […]

Although Heaven FM is categorized as theater in the FTA programming, what I experienced at the Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui was a dance of lights. Clearly, the separation between theater and dance, as well as any nomenclature we use, are merely utilitarian for bureaucracy and academia. Whatever name we establish will have no impact on audience perception […]