His innovations are a result of an interest in gadgets that goes back to his early university days. Initially he trained not as a dancer but as a photographer and visual artist. While dancing for distinguished local choreographers (he was one of the nude dancers in Daniel Léveilléâs trilogy that began with Amour, acide et noix), Gladyszewski began staging his own creations like Aura (2005), that combined videos and real dancers.
His 2008 solo, Corps Noir, which he re-staged this past November, used scrims and curtains as backcloths for reflecting fantastic light images cast by a thermal camera. Body heat determined the coloursâ hues, an effect that Gladyszewski exploited more fully in an extraordinary duet that he created for a collective work in October, Danse à Dix, at the Kingdom Gentlemenâs strip club. For several minutes, colours swirled across the two dancersâ nude bodies, intensifying or fading according to the skinâs temperature. A simple scene of two people in close embrace became an erotic fantasy â mesmerizing from start to finish.

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The lights came up on a scene depicting an African savannah at dawn. Thirty-one horses lay âœsleepingâ with their riders cuddled close by.
The sense of relaxed trust between animal and trainer was plapable â unconditional. The showâs final moments were equally remarkable, with white horses running full tilt and unfettered through a shallow âœlakeâ. The water sprayed, manes were tossed and this critic sat, transfixed.
Kathryn Greenaway
Larry David outdoes himself with Palestinian chicken
Larry David delights in making audiences cringe on Curb Your Enthusiasm. He has no filter. He is curmudgeonly and incorrigible. He has created situations in which his character dates a woman in a wheelchair to avoid lineups at restaurants, or picks up a prostitute to enable him to use the carpool lane on the freeway.

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Paula de Vasconcelos abandoned the earnest gravity of her earlier works and fashioned engrossing duets for two amorous couples in Grâce à Dieu, Ton Corps. It offered a captivating contemporary look at love’s disturbing triangles, sensitively danced amid a visually splendid decor typical of this choreographer’s work.
Relationship twists and turns also marked Crystal Pite’s The You Show, yet another example of this remarkable choreographer’s ability to give concrete substance to abstract notions. She’s one of Canada’s most prolific dancemakers, yet her inspiration never flags.
Stéphane Gladyszewski’s colour-saturated duet for a nude male-female couple was the highlight of Danse à Dix, a groundbreaking show by eight local choreographers staged at a Montreal strip club. In its head-on questioning of morals, esthetics and the sex appeal of dance, Dance à Dix was the most thoughtprovoking show of the year. Worth noting, too, was a restaging of Gladyszewski’s 2008 solo show, Corps Noir, which deftly employed technology and props to suggest deep regions of the psyche.

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In February, the London Stock Exchange and TMX Group, which runs the Toronto Stock Exchange, embraced and announced plans to merge. By July, the engagement was off. A new suitor, the Canadian consortium Maple Group, wooed enough shareholders with a competing bid to force the LSE to throw in the towel. It remains to be seen if Maple Group, consisting largely of Canadian financial institutions that already own TSXâs main rival Alpha Group, will get clearance from the Competition Bureau to consummate the deal.
DSK KOâD
Franceâs Dominique Strauss-Kahn will be a tough act to follow as managing director of the International Monetary Fund â even with a very large scoop. Accused of sexual assault on two continents, the French Lothario then was fingered as a regular and avid customer of prostitutes with a penchant for orgies. Even Charlie Sheen, Eliot Spitzer and Bernie Ecclestone were appalled.

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Paula de Vasconcelos abandoned the earnest gravity of her earlier works and fashioned engrossing duets for two amorous couples in Grâce à Dieu, Ton Corps. It offered a captivating contemporary look at loveâs disturbing triangles, sensitively danced amid a visually splendid decor typical of this choreographerâs work.
Relationship twists and turns also marked Crystal Piteâs The You Show, yet another example of this remarkable choreographerâs ability to give concrete substance to abstract notions. Sheâs one of Canadaâs most prolific dancemakers, yet her inspiration never flags.
Stéphane Gladyszewskiâs colour-saturated duet for a nude male-female couple was the highlight of Danse à Dix, a groundbreaking show by eight local choreographers staged at a Montreal strip club. In its head-on questioning of morals, esthetics and the sex appeal of dance, Dance à Dix was the most thought-provoking show of the year. Worth noting, too, was a restaging of Gladyszewskiâs 2008 solo show, Corps Noir, which deftly employed technology and props to suggest deep regions of the psyche.

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The lights came up on a scene depicting an African savannah at dawn. Thirty-one horses lay âœsleepingâ with their riders cuddled close by.
The sense of relaxed trust between animal and trainer was plapable â unconditional. The showâs final moments were equally remarkable, with white horses running full tilt and unfettered through a shallow âœlakeâ. The water sprayed, manes were tossed and this critic sat, transfixed.
Kathryn Greenaway
Larry David outdoes himself with Palestinian chicken
Larry David delights in making audiences cringe on Curb Your Enthusiasm. He has no filter. He is curmudgeonly and incorrigible. He has created situations in which his character dates a woman in a wheelchair to avoid lineups at restaurants, or picks up a prostitute to enable him to use the carpool lane on the freeway.

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Three men arrested as potential suspects in a wild shooting that injured four people in a strip club early Sunday were released on a promise to appear in court if they are eventually charged.
The three were released after being questioned about the shooting at Studio 300, on Ste. Rose Blvd. near Curé Labelle Blvd., which recently reopened after being destroyed by fire on Nov. 13, 2003.
Police said an argument between two groups preceded the shooting at around 2 a.m. Sunday.
When police arrived, they found two men at the scene with bullet wounds and a woman injured by broken glass.
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Laval police Constable Natalie Lorrain said the men were inside the strip club when the shooting occurred but investigators were still trying to determine whether they were involved.
She said the strip club was equipped with several security video cameras.

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MONTREAL â Three men arrested early Sunday about an hour after gunfire broke out in a Laval strip bar, the Studio 300, have been released on promises they will appear in court if they are charged. Four people were injured in the shooting at the recently reopened strip bar in Laval’s Ste. Rose district. Two men in their mid-20s were found with bullet wounds in the abdomen when police arrived at the scene.A woman about the same age suffered cuts from broken glass. All were reported in stable condition Sunday.A third man was also injured by the gunfire but managed to leave before police arrived â calling 911 from his car on Ste. Rose Blvd. in Laval to say he had been shot.The three men were arrested, thanks to a description by witnesses and the licence number of the vehicle in which the suspects left the scene.Constable Natalie Lorrain of Laval police said the trio were arrested at another bar after police in Boisbriand, north of Laval, noticed the vehi …

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George Stamos, in his second appearance at Dancemakers, mines queer politics in Liklik Pik, a duet for two men, in the first program. Peter Bingham/EDAM, also making a return engagement to Dancemakers, offers a playful yet complex exchange between two men, in Right in Front of You. On the same program, emerging dance maker Andrea Spaziani contemplates the possibility of really feeling ready to perform in The Moment Before. The third program presents the Toronto debut of German artist Martin Nachbar in Repeater, an intergenerational work with his 73 year old father.
Program 1 – George StamosHumans have long been interested in examining the distinctions and similarities between themselves and other animals. Inspired by his own fascination, following imaginative impulses and convergent queer tangents along the way, George Stamos pursues this curiosity in Liklik Pik, a cross-media duet for ‘pigs’.
Living and working in Montreal, contemporary choreographer Stamos was a sex-worker’s rights and AIDS activist from 1987-1993 and a go-go dancer from 1989-2000. He studied choreography and improvisation at The School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam and his work has been presented across Canada, the US and in Europe.

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MONTREAL â Three men arrested early Sunday about an hour after gunfire broke out in a Laval strip bar, the Studio 300, have been released on promises they will appear in court if they are charged. Four people were injured in the shooting at the recently reopened strip bar in Laval’s Ste. Rose district. Two men in their mid-20s were found with bullet wounds in the abdomen when police arrived at the scene.A woman about the same age suffered cuts from broken glass. All were reported in stable condition Sunday.A third man was also injured by the gunfire but managed to leave before police arrived â calling 911 from his car on Ste. Rose Blvd. in Laval to say he had been shot.The three men were arrested, thanks to a description by witnesses and the licence number of the vehicle in which the suspects left the scene.Constable Natalie Lorrain of Laval police said the trio were arrested at another bar after police in Boisbriand, north of Laval, noticed the vehi …

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