Wants&Needs danse is featured in  the May issue of the Dance Current Magazine.  A full article talking about our innovative approach to curating and producing dance events! Check it out at newstands or in a dance studio near you.

Wants&Needs were one of 20 artists selected for Nightlife’s class of 2010.  Highlighting emerging talent in dance, theatre and performance in Montreal.  What a cool concept for a magazine cover and kudos to Nightlife for giving some coverage to contemporary artists other than musicians!!  For the full article check out this link:  http://www.nightlife.ca/arts-culture/class-2010-andrew-et-sasha-les-inseparables

Cool video about dance in quebec from Regroupement Quebecois de la danse.  Filmed at Pas de Danse Pas de Vie at the Place des Arts 2008.  Wants&Needs artistic director Andrew Tay talks in the vid and performs the sticks with dancer Marilyne St. Sauveur.

Hello Everyone! Wants&needs is now accepting proposals for a night of dance they are curating in collaboration with Studio 303. We are calling the event involved, and hope that you would be interested in submitting something yourself or could pass this message along to those you think would be.

The purpose of Involved is for dance artists to create work that confront the audience’s relationship to performance. We are looking for pieces that involve audience participation, and choreographies which offer the spectator a unique way in which to view dance work. The use of or approach to the audience should be a central component of the projects being submitted. Artists can use the audience to create the soundtrack of the choreography, move the audience in the space, utilize the audience as performers,  break the fourth wall between the spectators, etc.   (these are just ideas, feel free to come up with your own, the goal of involved is to question the idea of “audience” and how it relates to your personal artistic vision)

We will be accepting both new and previously performed works, as long as they suit the theme of the show. Interested applicants are asked to submit a description of the proposed choreography (max 1 page) as well as a DVD example of either the work being submitted or an example of previous work. Pieces will be selected based on their artistic ideas and their creativity in interrogating the audience/performer relationship.  Applicants may be contacted to further discuss their proposal. 

Please send submissions by March 15 (postmarked) to: Studio 303, 372 Ste-Catherine West, Montreal QC, H3B1A2

Looking forward to reading your submissions,

Wants&needs danse

Our event Short&Sweet got another mention this time in the mirror as part of their Dance: Year in review! What a positive way for wants&needs to start out 2010…

You can check out the link below:

http://www.montrealmirror.com/2009/122409/yir6.html

Joy is often found in community building, and that’s the continuing cornerstone of Short and Sweet, where local posers, punsters and experimenters all share the stage in bite-sized works

It was an amazing night at Short&Sweet 4!  Thanks to all of the amazing artists, choreographers, dancers, volunteers and audience that keep making this event so special!  If you missed it, here’s some great photos of the night courtesy of Yve Gignon.  Looking forward to Short&Sweet 5….

Dec 3, 2009 $8 

Choreographers- Dana Michel, Dana Gingras, Andrew Tay, Sasha Kleinplatz, Thierry Huard, Les Soeurs Schmutt, K8 Alsterlund, Floor Rider and Tonik, Hanako Hoshimi-caines, Leanne Dyer, Victoria Stanton, Sarah Bild, Nicolas Cantin, Kathy&Amy, Sylvain Vestricht, Karen Fennel and Ben Read, Alyson Wishnousky, The Choreographers, Dany Desjardins, Jacques Poulin-Denis, Alli Blakely, Katya Montaignac, Ashlea Watkin, Laurel Koop, Stu McIntyre, Melina Stinson

Short&Sweet is back and giving more than 25 choreographers carte blanche to create whatever they want as long as it is under 3 minutes! A timekeeper is present for the event and any artist going over the allotted timeframe has their music and lights immediately cut off.

For this 4th edition of Short&Sweet we’ve assembled an eclectic group, representing the diversity within the Montreal dance/performance community. There are breakdancers, performance artists, intellectual based artists and purely physical movers, – all offering their unique take on contemporary movement.

The goal of Short&Sweet is to force choreographers to consider exactly what can be accomplished within the time constraint, and to really keep their movement ideas precise! Taking place in a relaxed cabaret/bar setting, Short&Sweet manages to keep the atmosphere light and gives the audience a chance to see dance outside of the traditional theatre venue context.

Short&Sweet est un événement de danse novateur qui donne carte blanche à 25 chorégraphes pour créer en toute liberté. Leur seule contrainte : une limite de temps de 3 minutes! Un chronométreur est sur place lors des performances et chaque artiste dépassant la limite de temps autorisée se retrouve automatiquement dans le noir complet… sans son ni lumières!

Pour la 4ième édition de Short&Sweet, nous avons réuni un groupe éclectique d’artistes qui représentent bien la diversité que l’on retrouve dans la communauté de la danse et de la performance à Montréal. Nous y retrouvons des breakdancers, des artistes de performance, des artistes intellectuels et d’autres purement physiques. Tous offrent une prise de vue unique sur le mouvement contemporain.

Le but de la série Short&Sweet est de pousser les chorégraphes à réfléchir sur ce qui peut être accompli à l’intérieur de la contrainte de temps et à avoir une gestuelle très précise. Ayant lieu dans une ambiance décontractée de style cabaret, Short&Sweet permet aux spectateurs de voir la danse dans un contexte autre qu’une salle de spectacle traditionnelle.

Sasha Kleinplatz’s new solo Kick It Off (commissioned by the Fredericton Playhouse) will premiere at the performing and media arts gala Fredericton Onstage on November 27th. This work is a a collaboration between Sasha and Lucy May, who is currently dancing for Marie Chouinard.

Also in Novemeber, Sasha will be re-mounting the award winning piece
Oh, Indeed, at the Studio 303 Vernissage Resistance. The show is Novemeber 21st, performances are at 7 & 9 pm.