The artistic co-directors of the Festival TransAmériques, Martine Dennewald and Jessie Mill, presented the complete program of its 17th edition at the end of Tuesday. This takes place from May 24th to June 8th. The program features 24 dance and theatrical performances by artists from 21 countries, including 4 world premieres and 9 North American premieres, as well as several parallel activities.
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The artistic co-directors did not give their spring event a main theme, but underlined the “powerful” character of the selected works. And that the shows “are infused with hope and the search for emancipation, are fabulous feats”.
They casually refer to the “manifesto” status of several works (dealing with indigenous, queer, racist realities, among others) and the desire to “compile the revolutionary archives of the future! »
To open the FTA, Elle Sofe Sara, an indigenous Sami artist, will offer a choreographic concert from May 24, “where polyphonic stories of resistance declare her love for the territory”. The cast of Vástádus eana – The Answer is Territory will lead the audience in a walking tour from the Esplanade Tranquille to the Monument-National.
For his part, Argentinian-born Tiziano Cruz will lead a festive parade from Place Émilie-Gamelin to the National, with Soliloquio, “a manifesto for the recognition of differences”. 28-30 May.
PHOTO MARCO CAMPANOZZI, THE PRESS
Left to right: Jesse Mill, Angela Konrad, Larry Tremblay, Martine Dennewald, Dominique Leclerc and Dana Gingras.
At dusk, from May 25th to 27th, on the Esplanade Tranquille, the FTA offers a free rendezvous with Creation Destruction, a work by the choreographer Dana Gingras that gathers 12 musicians around members of the group Godspeed and 11 dancers in front of the video installation of the London based collective United Visual Artists. For her part, the choreographer Dana Michel will create Mike, an epic about the culture of work (from June 1st to 4th).
Renowned Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues returns to Montreal with Encantado (a word meaning enchantment, wonder). His piece has the accents of a “collective manifesto for a new cosmogony”. This show, for 11 performers wrapped in a giant colorful quilt, is of great formal and visual beauty, according to the co-directors. It will be presented at Usine C from June 6th to 8th. The choreographer meets with the public on June 4 at 1:00 p.m. at FTA headquarters.
Catherine Bourgeois and her company Joe Jack and John will reinterpret Pirandello’s classic by creating the play Cispersonages in search of an author. (Open Room, May 31-June 2.) While Back to Back Theatre, an Australian company, will offer “a town hall meeting with neuroatypical performers.” With The Making of Pinocchio, Glasgow artists Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill take up the wooden puppet’s search for identity as a metaphor for MacAskill’s transition. (At the Théâtre Rouge du Conservatoire and online from May 25th to 27th).
From Brooklyn, Sweat Variant Company presents choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili’s ‘mythical’ piece Bronx Gothic. Dance, theater and installation at the same time, this show is based on an intimate correspondence between two young black girls. In the Studio Theater of the Wilder Building.
From June 1st to 3rd, the FTA will also present Tableau final de l’amour, the stage adaptation of the novel by Larry Tremblay, directed by Angela Konrad, at Usine C with Benoit McGinnis and Samuël Côté. And I/O, the solo by Dominique Leclerc, premiered at the Center du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui and was repeated at the Prospero.
Single tickets go on sale March 28 at 12pm. The packages will be offered from March 21st to April 9th.