There’s something hypnotic about watching dancers perform in front of mirrors. Throw in some kaleidoscopic lighting, music, and performers with an almost surreal level of fluidity, and it can become truly enchanting. This is what dance lovers can expect when the Montreal-based company Tentacle Tribe brings Prism to the Cultch’s Historic Theatre from October 23 to 27.
François Houde, a journalist at Le Nouvelliste, called the show “indescribable”.
“It’s a 60-minute getaway from the world as we know it,” he declared. “Proof that hallucinogenic drugs are superfluous and unnecessarily dangerous. We can leave our banal reality by the sole power of two choreographers, five dancers and a few well-sized mirrors.”
The co-artistic directors are Stockholm-born Elon “The Wandering Spirit” Höglund and Emmanuelle “Cleopatra” Lê Phan, who is Québeco-Vietnamese.
Höglund has trained in martial arts and performed with Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Éloize, Bboyizm, and Rubberdance. Lê Phan also performed in the past with Cirque du Soleil and Cirque Éloize alumna. According to her bio, she draws on many forms—such as breaking, popping, capoeira, parkour, house, and modern—to create her own freestyle language.
In Prism, the bodies intermingle to Höglund’s music in what the company describes as a “dreamlike journey”.
The Cultch and New Works present Prism at the Historic Theatre from October 23 to 27. For more information ad tickets, visit the Cultch website. Follow Pancouver on X (formerly Twitter) @PancouverMedia and on Instagram @PancouverMedia.
