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PARTS+LABOUR
CONTEMPORARY DANCE
Co-choreographers Emily Gualtieri and David Albert-Toth have built PARTS+LABOUR into a bold and rising voice in contemporary dance. Since 2011, they have created works that blur the lines between script and spontaneity, merging the personal, the poetic, and the political. Inspired by literature, mythology, and philosophy, their artistic ethos embraces tension over resolution, embracing the collision of divergent ideas and visions to generate powerful narratives about community, solitude, and collective resilience. Their collaboration is rooted in difference, care, and shared vision. Together, they have developed a choreographic signature grounded in friction, mutual respect, and the urgent need to confront the world as it is.
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À bout de bras
LABOUR
SUMMARY - LABOUR
2026 | 5 artists on stage | 60 min.
LABOUR is a feminist act of creation and reclamation. Rooted in the Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam, the belief that the world is unfinished and that we are responsible for its repair, LABOUR responds to the urgency of our time. Amid escalating attacks on bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, and gender equity, and as far-right ideologies become increasingly entrenched, LABOUR becomes an act of defiance.
Through phasing physicalites and flashes of absurd humour, the work celebrates the unseen and relentless work of womxn: endurance, vulnerability, and the radical capacity to build and transform. Power is reframed through rhythm, style, and collective force. Raw and unruly, the choreography sways in murky rhythms before snapping into place in fleeting moments of crystallization.
Dance becomes both tool and weapon.
Front-facing, the work is both confrontational and inviting, sharing something immediate and alive. It becomes voyeuristic and collective at once: them watching us watching them. It empowers them, and through them, us. Performed by an intergenerational cast rooted in a plurality of femme perspectives, it embodies the complexity of feminist labour and lived experience.
LABOUR rejects aesthetic politeness. It is sweaty, intense, and alive, confronting the exhaustion and exhilaration of building something new in the ruins of systems that no longer serve us. Responding to a politically charged, socially fractured moment, LABOUR still holds space for care, connection, and repair.
As old structures crumble and inclusive futures emerge, we ask:
What does power look like when it’s made together?
À BOUT DE BRAS
SUMMARY - LABOUR
2022 | 1 artist on stage | 60 min.
À bout de bras - A Modern-Day Tantalus
In this powerful and theatrical solo, David Albert-Toth explores our innermost paradoxes: our thirst for solitude flirts with our fear of being alone, and our infinite desires remain eternally unfulfilled.
Co-choreographed with, and directed by Emily Gualtieri, David is in turn dancer, actor, and magician: a self-undermining virtuoso. The choreographic duo summons the myth of Tantalus and revisits it with the complicity of playwright Étienne Lepage. On stage, David speaks to us with irreverent humour about the absurdity of our primal desires, and of the unspeakable things we are ready to do to satisfy them. He taps deeply into his uncommon, writhing physicality, through trial and error, crystallizing into form and force in fleeting moments. The work is unpredictable, imbued with ambivalent and conflicting desires. As the body shifts through states playing against the duo’s intricate choreographic writing, the piece invokes a global experience of vulnerability, scrutinizing the modern-day individual and, by extension, each one of us.