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Expectations are a tricky thing. High expectations more so.

Fractals of You, from Montreal-based company Tentacle Tribe is one of the only works that I've seen master this technology-dance fusion (the other that springs to mind is the work of mega-watt Australian company Chunky Move).

There exists a fertile space in between contemporary dance and performance art. It's kind of like a petri dish bubbling away in a warm laboratory.

Continuing its reputation as Montreal's sampler box of contemporary dance, Festival Quartiers Danses presented two quite disparate works tightly buttressed up against each other in Cinquieme Salle on Sunday.

The opening of Festival Quartiers Danses in Montreal opened with AXISTURN, which was essentially three solos served with a grainy side of multimedia.

Danse Cité, an open partner for Montreal artists as they venture into unknown territory, presents Audrey Bergeron's Par le chas de l'aiguille 

José Navas celebrates turning 50 with Rites, a new solo performance combining four unique works, that pushes him to uncover the limits of his mature body.

Daniel Abreu's Animal closes the Quartiers Danses festival in Montreal. An aesthetic, contemporary, trance-inducing piece reviewed by Pia Savoie.

De marfim e carne by Marlene Monteiro Freitas makes it's North American premiere in Montreal at the Festival TransAmériques.

Nothing comes close to Victor Quijada’s ever original style. As the choreographer behindQuotient Empirique and founder of RUBBERBANDance, he teaches his dancers to turn a dimmer on gravity’s effect.

At the beginning of Lucy Guerin’s work Weather, running from 22-26 October at the Cinquième Salle at Place des Arts in Montréal, it takes a few moments to realize that it’s the solo dancer himself who is creating the sound of the wind. As the whispers gradually crescendo to gales, his body twists and turns and bends, both creating and reacting to the force of nature.

The lights come up on a stage presided over by three planets watching silently from above. Kiya Tabassian, founder of the musical group Constantinople, enters slowly from the left, with his setar (a type of Persian lute), while Roger Sinha, artistic director and choreographer of Sinha Danse, enters from the right.

First, a warning: if you are feeling at all emotionally fragile, do not go see T.R.A.S.H. this week at la Cinqième Salle at Place des Arts, Montreal. If, however, you consider your sanity unshakeable, don’t miss it... but don’t be surprised if you leave emotionally spent.Combining dance, theatre, and live original music, T.R.A.S.H. grew out of the alternative punk rock scene in Tilburg, Holland.

Communication – its overabundance, limitations, annoyances and impossibilities – is the unifying theme of HomoBLABLAtus, the new production of La Otra Orilla (The Other Shore) currently being staged at Cinquième Salle at Montréal’s Place des Arts.