For the musically adventurous and visually attuned, Frédérick Gravel offers a music-dance spectacle to savour - an unholy hybrid of the highbrow and the high-octane
Date/Time: Jan 16 2018, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Vancouver, Vancouver Playhouse | Event calendarCost: $39.00
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Onstage, nine dancers move in time to a head-nodding live music mix, their bodies shifting between repose and ecstatic motion. The emphasis here is on rhythm—you’ll struggle to stay in your seat as the propulsive beats roll and the dancers move in finely controlled harmony.
Gravel bridges the mainstream and the esoteric in a delightful blend. With the music as with the dance, this is Gravel’s signature crossbreeding at its finest—a heady mash-up of styles, moulded for maximum kinetic power. The musical references— rock, R&B, even classical—seem stranger, more radical, more alive in combination with the others. In this sprawling sonic universe, the dancers come to life; when they move, it’s with the force of obsession. Beauty is rarely this entertaining, and entertainment rarely this exalted.
[A]rguably the most significant dance artist to emerge in Quebec in the past 10 years… He produces dance theatre that is sly and subversive. - The Globe and Mail
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2018 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival Events