I recently caught a performance by the Compagnie Marie Chouinard, a top contemporary dance troupe, in Vancouver and it blew me away. The piece I saw was called bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS and is a liberal take on Bach's Goldberg Variations. The dancers use prosthetics to express and experience states of freedom, creativitiy and different ways of being, while at times the crutches and ballet slippers (fastened to their hands) become a hindrance to their expression. Marie Chouinard will be performing in Austria and Berlin in May and will return to Canada to a few cities this summer and then back to Europe and to Japan in 2009. Not to be missed!