Danz & Toot / Les Grands Ballets at Place des Arts

Choreographers Ohad Naharin (Israel) and Didy Veldman (The Netherlands) are sharing the bill, each making full use of the technical versatility and interpretive powers of the dancers of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal. Ohad Naharin’s Danz opens the evening with a collage of excerpts drawn from works created between 1999 and 2007, offering a panoramic view of the choreographer’s oeuvre. Produced for Les Grands Ballets in 2008, this colourful and vibrant jigsaw is set to a musical collage of works by Beethoven, Brian Eno and surf-rock hits from the compilation Hard Rock Café Surf. Next up is TooT, a theatrical piece created in 2005 by Didy Veldman whose Little Prince successfully ended Les Grands Ballets’ 2011-2012 season. Her alternately amusing and scathing view of alienation in modern society features a powerful score ranging from the muscularity of Shostakovich to the melancholy of Balanescu.