World Premiere of LABOUR: A New Creation by PARTS+LABOUR to Discover in Spring 2026
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The Montreal-based company PARTS+LABOUR, led by choreographers Emily Gualtieri and David Albert-Toth, will present the world premiere of its brand-new creation, LABOUR, in spring 2026.
Blending humour, endurance, and vulnerability, LABOUR transforms the body into a space of metamorphosis. Through simple yet unstable rhythms, the piece confronts the fragmented realities of our time and brings forward gestures of resistance, solidarity, and transformation.
LABOUR is a co-production of the CanDance Network Creation Fund, the National Arts Centre, Agora de la danse, La Rotonde, the dance: made in Canada festival, the PuSh Festival, New Works, and Rum för Dans.
World Premiere of LABOUR
Agora de la danse à Montréal
April 21–25, 2026
Followed by additional performances of LABOUR
National Arts Centre (NAC), Ottawa
April 29–30, 2026
Since 2011, Emily Gualtieri and David Albert-Toth have been developing, with Parts+Labour, a distinctive choreographic language that blurs the boundaries between structure and spontaneity, blending the personal, the poetic, and the political to create powerful and deeply human works.
The Dance team is very proud to support David and Emily in this new adventure.
Contact us to obtain your presenter ticket or for more information.
CREDITS DE LABOUR
Production
PARTS+LABOUR
Concept, Creation + Artistic Direction
Emily Gualtieri, David Albert-Toth
Dancers and choreographic collaborators
Brianna Lombardo, Maïka Giasson, Jossua Satinée, Lou-Anne Rousseau, Frédérique Rodier
Replacement Performer Jo Laïny Trozzo-Mounet
Apprentice Clodie Lambert
Lighting Design Paul Chambers
Costume + Set Design Jonathan Saucier
Composer Frannie Holder
Rehearsal Director Jamie Wright
Dramaturg Helen Simard
Technical Director Samuel Thériault
Production Manager Justine Bellefeuille
Communications Kristina Hilliard
Co-Production + Co-Premieres
Agora de la danse + National Arts Centre
Co-Production
CanDance Network Fund, National Arts Centre, Agora de la danse, La Rotonde, dance: made in canada, Festival PuSh, New Works, Rum för Dans
Support + Residencies offered graciously by
Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal, Quai 5160, Centre culturel Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Studio Flak. PARTS+LABOUR has benefited from residencies at Agora de la danse.
Touring Agent Yaëlle Azoulay - Agence Résonances
