Tentacle Tribe | April 22-24, 2027

... It’s a 60-minute getaway from the world as we know it. Proof that hallucinogenic drugs are superfluous and unnecessarily dangerous. We can leave our banal reality by the sole power of two choreographers, five dancers, and a few well-sized mirrors.
François Houde , Le Nouvelliste

Run time: 60 minutes. No intermission

Prism

Tentacle Tribe is a genre-defying company unlike any other. In Prism, five dancers move between a reflective floor and movable mirror panels, their bodies multiplying and dissolving into infinite combinations of light and movement. The choreography draws from popping, tutting, and breaking, woven together in the company’s unique partnering style. Mesmerizing and kaleidoscopic, Prism is a reflection on what we see and what we miss. Tentacle Tribe represents a new wave of artists fusing hip-hop with other dance forms — and Prism is their most dazzling statement yet.

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Apr 22 - Performance

7:30 PM | Newmark Theatre

Apr 23 - Performance

7:30 PM | Newmark Theatre

Apr 24 - Performance

7:30 | Newmark Theatre

Prism

Montreal Premiere March 2023, UK Premiere: Sadler’s Wells East Breakin’ Convention, October 8, 2025

Choreography by Emmanuelle Lê Phan and Elon Höglund

Music by Elon Höglund

Set Design by Charles Cormier

Set Design Adaptation by Rahime Gay-Labbé

Lighting Design by Benoit Larivière

A quintet of dancers moves between a reflective floor and movable mirror panels that they can manipulate from different angles. Kaleidoscopically multiplied tenfold, their bodies seamlessly unite and intermingle, in synergy with Höglund’s music. A dreamlike journey with a truly hypnotic effect.

The defining feature of Tentacle Tribe's Prism is its large mirrors; dancers move in tightly coordinated formations in front of the mirrors while also moving the mirrors themselves. The colorful, solid-color costumes worn by the dancers emphasize the kaleidoscopic effect of the mirrors. Over 60 mesmerizing minutes, the dancers weave around each other to create constantly shifting formations. Tentacle Tribe's unique dance style includes a combination of fluid, low-to-the-ground contemporary dance movements with street dance styles including breaking, popping, and tutting. The score of Prism is pulsing, hypnotic electronic music, with beats and samples referencing back to the company's hip hop inspirations.

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Tentacle Tribe was formed in 2012 when the company performed their first official collaboration, choreographed for the Cirque Du Soleil stage in Quebec City. Tentacle Tribe is known for their genre-defying duets and group pieces, approaching choreography through a wide variety of movement philosophies and presents their unique brand of conceptual hip–hop, experimenting with intricate partnering, refined musicality and a saturated dose of physical choreography. The company has participated in over sixty national festivals, won the Envol Award for cultural diversity and inclusive practices in dance, and was nominated for the Sadler's Wells International Rose Prize in 2023

Drawing from their wide scope of dance experience, co–founders Emmanuelle Lê Phan and Elon Höglund create conceptual hip–hop with a contemporary twist, while intermingling organic influences from earthly creatures. Present in the street dance community and as seasoned stage performers, the duo combines movement techniques that transcend style boundaries and create works that express the embodiment of music beyond technique. The Canadian-Swedish duo represent a new wave of artists fusing hip-hop with other dance forms.

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