Dance shows for school groups

A choreography by Ohad Naharin

24 > 26 AVRIL 2024
School gym, Montreal (contact us for details)

Length: 1 h 00

FESTIVITIES + SHARING

A joyously off beat celebration of dance, imagined by choreographer Ohad Naharin and served up by Gauthier Dance. Intimately close to the audience on an improvised stage surrounded by bleachers, Kamuyot appeals to the freedom and playfulness of all. Join the dance!

SCHOOL MATINEES

Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 1:30 pm
Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 1:30 pm
Friday, April 26, 2024 - 1:30 pm

Hofesh Shechter, Marie Chouinard, Ohad Naharin

MAY 1 > 4,  2024 \ 8:00 PM
Théâtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts 

Length: 2 h 10 including intermission

GREAT CLASSIC + VARIATIONS

What does Swan Lake inspire in contemporary choreographers? Two of the world’s dance superstars boldly tackle this iconic romantic ballet for the 16 dancers of Gauthier Dance. Finally, Minus 16 by choreographer Ohad Naharin completes the triptych. An evening of shocks and contrasts!

Shahar Binyamini + Medhi Walerski

OCTOBER 2 > 5, 2024 8 P.M.
Théâtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts

Length: 1h45 

TRIPTYCH · RYTHMIC

An outstanding triple bill danced by Ballet BC! The music of Ravel’s iconic Bolero sparks a spectacular celebration of the power of dance and our collective strength, embodied by 50 performers.

José Navas

OCTOBER 22 > 26, 2024 \ 8 P.M.
Cinquième Salle, Place des Arts

Length: 1h 

SOLO · MOVING

Dancing his life on stage, choreographer and dancer José Navas opens his heart and soul as he shares memories of his late partner, William Douglas, Felled by AIDS in the prime of life. A luminous and touching homage.

Botis Seva

NOVEMBER 6 > 9, 2024 \ 8 P.M.
Théâtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts

Length : 1h05

GRIPPING · STREET DANCE

Electrifying and utterly spellbinding, BLKDOG explodes with rebellious energy in a in a hard-hitting physical language that combines hip hop and contemporary dance questioning our capacity for resilience. An uncompromising view of the world.

Margaret Grenier

NOVEMBER 12 > 16, 2024 \ 8 P.M.
Cinquième Salle, Place des Arts

SCHOOL MATINEE
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 1:30 p.m.

Length: 1h

INTERGENERATIONAL - INDIGENOUS CULTURE

Raven Mother — a reference to the raven, the clan’s crest—pays tribute to Margaret Harris, an Indigenous elder who devoted her life to keeping her culture alive. A colourful multi- media narrative, a stream of images, dance, song, carved masks and sumptuous regalia.

Cheng Tsung-lung

NOVEMBER 28 > 30, 2024 \ 8 P.M.
Théâtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts

Length: 1h10

SENSORY · LUNAR

How can the body and technology coexist? Interacting with huge video projections, Cloud Gate’s dancers take us on a dizzying sensory journey inspired by a mysterious lunar phenomenon observed in the sky over Iceland.

JANUARY 15 > 18, 2025 \ 8 P.M.
Théâtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts

Length: 1h45

TAP DANCE · COSMIC

Charismatic tap dance legend Travis Knights takes on Mars! Four musicians, two singers, and five dazzling tap dancers defy gravity at a furious pace.

JANUARY 28 > FEBRUARY 01, 2025 \ 8 P.M.
Cinquième Salle, Place des Arts

SCHOOL MATINEE
Thursday, January 30, 2025 - 1:00 p.m.

Length: 1 h

CREATION · RÉSONANCES

A fascinating new work from Sylvain Émard, inviting to an in-depth exploration of the body’s magnetic connections. A generous dance whose compelling energy speaks of the close ties that bind people together.

Robert Lepage + Guillaume Côté

FEBRUARY 13 > 15, 2025 8 P.M.
FEBRUARY 19 > 22, 2025 8 P.M.

TRAGEDY - INTERDISCIPLINARY

An artistic summit inspired by Hamlet, between choreographer and principal dancer Guillaume Côté and theatre maker and director Robert Lepage. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark transports us to a world of deceptive appearances. A unique interpretation of Shakespeare’s tragedy.

FEBRUARY 25 > MARCH 1, 2025 8 P.M.
Cinquième Salle, Place des Arts

SCHOOL MATINEE
Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 10:30 a.m.

Length: 1 h

KRUMP · FUSION

A mirror portrait of two dazzling dancers. Montrealer Adeline Kerry Cruz, child prodigy of krump — who occupies the stage with her mentor, JR Maddripp — and Siaska Chareyre, an accomplished dancer with a brilliant command of contemporary dance styles and codes.

Compagnie de la Citadelle

MARCH 19 > 22, 2025 8 P.M.

Length: 1h20

HERITAGE · VULNERABILITY

Nuit, a landmark work of Jean-Pierre Perreault, features eight interacting figures dancing their loneliness, confrontation, and fragility in the half-light. A rare work of overwhelming beauty.

Alan Lake

APRIL 1 > 5, 2025 8 P.M.

Length: 1h15

CREATION · MYTH

Alan Lake delves into the heart of the human experience with a poignant foray into the myth of Orpheus. This dance of light and shade explores the twists and turns of doubt, loss and, above all, life in a supernatural atmosphere that oscillates between dream and reality.

Gabriela Carrizo + Franck Chartier

APRIL 16 > 19, 2025 8 P.M.
Théâtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts

Length : 2 h

TRILOGY· OUT OF THE ORDINARY

Belgian company Peeping Tom fascinates with its offbeat, genre-bending universe somewhere between dance, theatre and film. Triptych reveals their unconstrained imaginary world where horror and extravagance go hand in hand in three parts taking place in three different enclosed spaces.

APRIL 22 > 26, 2025 \ 7 P.M.
Cinquième Salle, Place des Arts

SCHOOL MATINEES

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 1:30 p.m
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 10:30 a.m.
Friday, April 25, 2025 - 1:30 p.m.

Length : 50min

POETIC · ILLUSIONS

Abracadabra! We start to lose our bearings. Happy and playful, two characters inspired by Agota Kristof’s Grand cahier lose and find themselves again in a thousand and one adventures aboard a wacky flying machine, tumbling through the clouds, exploring aquatic life, in a surreal universe, payful and magical.

APRIL 30 > MAY 3, 2025 8 P.M.

Length: 1h15

EXPLOSIVE - COMMITTED DANCE

In a constant flow of movement, a vibrant, rebellious
and carnivalesque ensemble electrifies the stage with continuous footwork combined with movements derived from voguing and house dance, as well as timeless traditional forms.