Call for spectators:
Live audio description of the show SQUAT — by Kim-Sanh Châu, for blind and partially sighted people.
March 20, 2026: Danse-Cité and Agora de la danse present a live audio description of the performance SQUAT by Kim-Sanh Châu for blind and partially sighted audiences.
Friday, March 20, 2026, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.
Location: Agora de la danse
Accessible transportation address: 1435 De Bleury Street
Live audio description by Caroline Charbonneau and Emmalie Ruest
Ticket price: $20. Free for one accompanying person.
Reservation required before March 13, 2026 by contacting Maud at Danse-Cité
Phone: 514-525-3595
Email: communication@danse-cite.org
Favouring intimacy, this choreographic installation for four performers explores the power that emerges from the lower body.
The squat is a crouched posture, a demanding physical exercise that becomes here an act of resistance. In this deep grounding, bodies rise and support one another, engaged in a struggle to lift themselves and free themselves from the weight of the ground.
Kim-Sanh Châu is a dance and video artist originally from Saigon, Vietnam. She says:
“Since 2021, I have been exploring this posture more and more. With SQUAT, I wanted to make it the very core of the piece. I am no longer speaking of a single cultural identity, but rather of a space of mixed references: Asian, North American, Western. They do not always overlap organically, and that reflects the reality of a mixed identity.”
Oscillating between strength and release, tension and surrender, the quartet sketches a subtle world where fragility becomes a virtue. The body becomes both material and landscape, crossed by invisible forces.
More information:
https://agoradanse.com/evenement/squat/
5:30 p.m. — Audience welcome and technical support
6:00 p.m. — Tactile tour
7:00 p.m. — Performance with audio description
8:05 p.m. — Artist talk
8:45 p.m. — End of the event
Thank you to our partners who make the audio description project for live performances possible.
Private sector partners:
TD | Ready Commitment · Mirella & Lino Saputo Foundation · Whitearn Foundation · Sibylla Hesse Foundation · Military Police Fund for Blind Children
Public sector partners:
Conseil des arts de Montréal · Canada Council for the Arts · Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec · Canadian Heritage · Ministère de la Culture et des Communications
Maud Mazo-Rothenbühler — Danse-Cité
Director of Development and Communications
communication@danse-cite.org — 514 525-3595
Since 1982, Danse-Cité has contributed to the evolution of dance and contemporary creation by supporting artists in research, creation, production, and/or dissemination. Since 2021, Danse-Cité has been developing a dance audio description program—previously nonexistent in Montreal—to offer French-speaking blind and partially sighted audiences adapted access to dance, performance, and circus shows.
https://danse-cite.org/accessibilite/about