The series involves week-long explorations of dance and architecture culminating in Saturday shows, and is inaugurated by choreographer Daniele Desnoyers and architect Pierre Thibault, under whose supervision an old church was revamped into performance space, studios and offices for the dance company. Reservations are necessary. Their company, Kaeja d'Dance, shares the program with Le Labo des Lettres by fellow Torontonian, poet Armelle Chitrit. Chitrit calls the piece a poem for body letters sung in braille, and deconstructs her words for a dancer, an actor and a musician. Jose Navas and Serge Bennathan have choreographed new works for the students for their program Disparus Pour Etres Apparus.
Admission is free.
With his wicked take on life in the new millennium, Elias left them howling, as he has been doing to audiences here for years. On the Spot Players Tuesday and Wednesday. Musica Camerata concludes its season tomorrow evening with an unusual program of Hummel's Clarinet Quartet, Claude Vivier's Pour Violin et Clarinette and Fanny Mendelssohn's Piano Quartet. On Sunday the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, corner of Sherbrooke and Bishop Sts., presents Dvorak's Mass in D with organ at 3 p.m. Quite a traffic jam on Monday, as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit presents a Prokofiev program including the bellicose cantata Alexander Nevsky and the Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Japanese soloist Akiko Suwanai.