PARTS+LABOUR
After a standout run, LABOUR returns to Agora with added performances this winter.
A piece for five firebrand performers, LABOUR embraces a minimalist physicality. Raw, sweaty, visceral, and tinged with absurdity, it rejects any aesthetic politeness and imagines a shared power, both intimate and collective, rooted in a plurality of femme perspectives.
Holding humour, endurance, and vulnerability in tension, the piece puts at the forefront womxn’s labour and the radical forces that build, sustain, reimagine, and transform.
Through unstable yet simple rhythms, LABOUR turns the body into a site of metamorphosis, confronting today’s fragmented realities with gestures of resistance, care, and collective force.
PARTS+LABOUR is unquestionably one of the boldest, most distinctive voices in contemporary dance. Since 2011, Emily Gualtieri and David Albert-Toth have been creating works that weave together script and spontaneity, the personal, the poetic, and the political. Drawing inspiration from literature, mythology, and philosophy, they explore tension rather than resolution, embracing the collision of ideas to spark powerful narratives about community, solitude, and collective resilience. Their collaboration is grounded in difference, care, and a shared vision, forging a choreographic signature rooted in friction and mutual respect, propelled by an urgent need to confront the world as it is.
February 24 - 25 - 26, 2027 – 7 p.m.
Duration : 60 minutes
Artist Talk, Thursday February 25, 2027
Production
PARTS+LABOUR
Concept, Creation & Artistic Direction
Emily Gualtieri, David Albert-Toth
Dancer-collaborators
Brianna Lombardo, Maïka Giasson, Jossua Satinée, Lou-Anne Rousseau, Frédérique Rodier
Apprentice
Clodie Lambert
Lighting Designer
Paul Chambers
Assistant Lighting Designer
Jordana Natale
Costume & Set Designer
Jonathan Saucier
Composer
Frannie Holder
Arrangement
David Albert-Toth
Mixing & Mastering
Ghyslain Luc Lavigne
Rehearsal Director
Jamie Wright
Dramaturg
Helen Simard
Additional artistic guidance
Philip Szporer
Technical Director
Samuel Thériault
Additional Technical Coordination
Mateo Barrera
Production Manager
Justine Bellefeuille
Communications
Kristina Hilliard
Co-Production + Co-Premieres
Agora de la danse + National Arts Centre
Co-Production
CanDance Network Fund, National Arts Centre, Agora de la danse, La Rotonde, dance: made in canada, Festival PuSh, New Works, Rum för Dans
Support + Residencies offered graciously by
Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal, Quai 5160, Centre culturel Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Studio Flak.
Touring Agent
Yaëlle Azoulay – Agence Résonances
Photo Credits:
LABOUR © Kristina Hilliard
Portrait © Robin Pineda Gould
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