Dancing dames

This Saturday, June 8, get your last hit of the Studio 303 Vernissage-danse series until the fall. The night features a quintet of women choreographers making bold statements through their works.

First up: New York choreographer Sam Kim looks at emotional disfigurement through obsession in A Farewell to Who You Are. Kim treats this serious topic with a touch of humour.

Montrealers get a sneak preview from Toronto choreographer Claudia Moore as she presents an excerpt from On Earth, a work that puts aspects of daily life on stage. Then Montreal-born, Ottawa-based Caroline Barrière deals with death and the hollow void it leaves behind in her choreography Chère Yvonne, with music by Mark Trumbo. Also on the program is another home-grown talent, Sara Hanley, who presents a new solo work and Annie-Claude Coutu Geoffroy with her curiously titled All Goes Down to the Same Old Fear.

Vernissage-danse #102 at Studio 303 (372 Ste-Catherine W.), 8:30 p.m. Info: 393-3771. :

—Marites Carino