Chouinard’s Garden of Earthly Delights

The first thing you need to know about a Marie Chouinard show is that it’s sensational. Dance may be best known as an art of the body, and these shows work with the whole body, you bet, but a Compagnie Marie Chouinard show is an integral experience for your eyes and ears… and curious mind. To open it’s 20th season, the Danse Danse series have programmed a weeklong Chouinard-fest. First, Le Cri du Monde and Soft Virtuosity, Still Humid, On the Edge run for two nights and add themselves to the list of a dozen works Danse Danse have now collected by Chouinard since 1998. Then, an hommage to Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights makes its Montreal premiere with a three-night run.

Performance photo of Soft Virtuosity, Still Humid, On the Edge by Compagnie Marie Chouinard

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