The Final Review
Ballets Jazz Montréal
Acclaimed by audiences worldwide, Ballets Jazz Montréal is back in the spotlight with a fascinating new creation by Jo Strømgren, a major figure in the international performing arts.

When life falters, the roaring beauty of movement remains. Ballets Jazz Montréal returns with a creation by Jo Strømgren, master of contrasts and tender tears. In this fragmented fresco, thirteen performers cross the shadows of the end of life to celebrate the light of the encounters that shape us. Onstage, a community weaves, unravels and reunites. Under the watchful eye of a sensitive ghost, gestures become memories in suspension, a surge that tells of love, friendship, loss and the silences that say it all. In voice and body, everything wavers, everything vibrates: celebration embraces melancholy, nostalgia flirts with the urgency to live, goodbyes are thundering with renewal. The tableaux follow one another in music imbued with symbolism, like so many heartbeats: intimate, spirited, dizzying. The Final Review is a sea of light, a cathartic tribute to that which survives oblivion. A troubling, visceral journey, where dance becomes a refuge, a ritual, a resistance, a final and uncompromising joy.

Info
Year of Creation: 2025
60 minutes
14 Dancers
Specs
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Tour
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Audience
All Audiences
Workshop available
Post-show discussion
why program this show?
A unifying creation by the team behind Dance Me and Vanishing Mélodies
Powerful and sensitive choreographer, athletic and rigorous performers
Great shape at the meeting of dance and cinema
A deep and nuanced look at the human contradictions that shape our lives
credits
Dancers Gustavo Barros, Millie Brinck-Dubuc, Yosmell Calderon Mejias, Marcel Cavaliere, Astrid Dangeard, Kyle Davis, Shanna Irwin Calderon, Miu Kato, DaMond Lemonte Garner, Zack Preece, Madelaine Salhany, Silje Vereide Intern Troy Atamanuk
Artistic Direction Alexandra Damiani Choreographer and Director Jo Strømgren Costume Design Philippe Dubuc Lighting Design Chantal Labonté Prop Design and Construction Alain Jenkins Artistic Director Andrew Mikhaiel Rehearsal Director Stéphanie Dalphond Technical Director Marco Vargas Navarro Technical Coordinator Louis Morriset Technical Team Maxime Lambert, Claude Plante, Daniel Ranger Video Recording and Editing Louis-Martin Charest Photographers Raphaël Ouellet & Sasha Onyshchenko Music Aznavour, Gustavo Santaolalla, Mr. Enirbod, Bergmund Waal Skaslien, Mette Henriette, Vandudas, La Bottine Souriante, Madalena De Melo, Luis Mariano, Isä ja lapsi and Zelwe
The Final Review is a co-production of the Saint-Sauveur Arts Festival, premiering at FASS 2025.