Check out the OntheBoards.tv latest trailer for Frédérick Gravel's Usually Beauty Fails, presented at OtB in January 2014. Keep your eyes open for the full performance coming soon!

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Interview excerpt with choreographer Frédérick Gravel and OtB Communications Director Erin Jorgensen

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EJ: You wrote a thesis in school about the role of a dancer in democratic society - and I'm super curious, being American...I  don't even know what that means.

Workshop with Montreal dancer/choreographer Frédérick Gravel
Sat | Jan 25 | noon at OtB | $12/$7 with ticket stub

"Gravel says the whole piece started with 'a stupid question I asked myself'. He wanted to know what 'beauty' would look like in his own work. Because, frankly, he was getting a little sick of the way it was portrayed so often in contemporary dance and pop culture.

"We had to create a new form of movement so that it was in line with the text, a particular way of speaking. We have removed the words 'theatre' and 'dance' from our vocabulary. We speak instead of texts, movements, postures, attitudes."