The dance company Marie Chouinard will open the Montreal High Lights Festival

The dance company Marie Chouinard will launch the 10th edition of the Montreal High Lights Festival with his latest creation, "Orpheus and Eurydice." This iconoclastic dance revolves around themes of humor and sexuality. Fourteen dancers will be on stage to explore the visceral sources of creation. The movement of their bodies will be accompanied by breath, yells, vowels and consonants to form the "dancing demon". The announcement was made Wednesday by the team Spectra under the unveiling of the programming of the cultural component of the festival which runs from February 19 to March 1. Two weeks ago, organizers were forced to cancel due to lack of subsidies, two operas by François Girard, which were originally scheduled to start the festivities. "Flight of Lindbergh" and "Seven Deadly Sins", produced by the Opera de Lyon, were presented in France, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, but never in Canada. The budget of one million dollars required to submit two works should be equally funded by ticket sales and public and private funds. "The context does not allow us to complete the financing and did not want to do deficit, said in an interview Michel Labrecque, president and CEO of the Montreal High Lights Festival. The programming team has therefore proposed to Marie Chouinard to present the choreography she had to submit to Japan in opening the festival. " Paris to honor The cultural component of this 10th edition of the Montreal winter festival will honor Paris. The honorary chairmanship of the section devoted to the performing arts was given to the author Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt. It showed on stage with actor Benoît McGinnis and Chamber Orchestra I Musici to read extracts from his autobiography "My life with Mozart." Later music, programming includes the show "Mutantes" by Pierre Lapointe, a tribute to Leo Ferre and the concert "French" from the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. The circus arts also punctuate this anniversary edition of the Montreal High Lights Festival with, the show "La Vie" of the troupe The 7 fingers and a selection of the best numbers of the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain. In humor, French Guy Bedos give its first performance in Montreal. The show "Paris I" close this anniversary edition of the Montreal High Lights Festival. Artists will sing French and Quebec City in light staged by Monique Giroux. Tickets for the cultural festival will go on sale Saturday at noon.