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
Choreography
Emily Gualtieri, David Albert-Toth
Performance
Maïka Giasson, Brianna Lombardo, Frédérique Rodier, Lou-Anne Rousseau, Jossua Satinée
Music
Frannie Holder
Scenography
Jonathan Saucier
Dramaturgy
Helen Simard
Rehearsal Director
Jamie Wright
Lighting
Paul Chambers
Sound Management
Samuel Thériault
Technical Direction
Samuel Thériault
Additional Technical Coordination
Mateo Barrera
Costumes
Jonathan Saucier
Production Management
Justine Bellefeuille
Co-Producers
Agora de la danse, CanDance Network Creation Fund, National Arts Centre, La Rotonde, dance: made in canada, PuSh Festival, New Works, & Rum för Dans.
Creation Residencies
Agora de la danse, Quai 5160, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Cultural Centre, Studio Flak
Support
Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal, & the Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal
Photo Credits:
LABOUR © Kristina Hilliard
Portrait © Robin Pineda Gould
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