music + dance + visual arts

Art Crush | Ensembl’arts is Québec and Canada’s first cultural organization with the mission of bringing together music, dance and visual arts on stage.

Ensembl’arts is a multidisciplinary ensemble founded in 2013 in Montreal, originally under its main series named Art Crush. Led by its Artistic and Music Directors, along with a dedicated team and board of directors, the ensemble’s productions combine visual arts, instrumental music and dance together within a space.

Art Crush | Ensembl’arts is dedicated to innovative outreach projects within the community, to educating the public about their unique art form and to presenting high quality performances in venues throughout Canada and beyond.

In performance – ART CRUSH concert series

By crossing concert music with dance and visual arts, Ensembl’arts creates immersive concert experiences set in unexpected settings and spaces. Somewhere between a traditional concert and performance art, our innovative stage (or non-stage) formats allows us to combine dance and visual arts with classical music.

We invite the public to experience a new multidisciplinary approach in the familiar concert context, while giving equal space to each art form. With each new creation Ensembl’arts aims to explore deeper connections between these three disciplines as they create a new composition together in a unique spatial setting.

The ensemble’s ‘Art Crush’ concerts allows one to experience a repertoire of music through the prism of various art forms. It can be described as an on-stage visual transmission of movements, sound, emotions and expressions from one artistic discipline to another, forming a chain reaction or cycle of creative expressions.

Ensembl’arts is currently Artist in Residence at the Barachois Summer Music Festival 2021, with the first virtual events launching in February. The ensemble has collaborated with several other artistic organizations, including the innovative Baroque group Ensemble Caprice for a concert at Salle Bourgie Hall in the Musee des beaux-arts, Montreal. In 2016 the ensemble had travelled to the Atlantic provinces for performances and filming with Mécénat Musica Noncerto. There Ensembl’arts collaborated with local Fredericton and Maritime musicians and artists to interpret works by Canadian composers.

In 2021 Ensembl’arts looks forward to creating a multidisciplinary work based on Tim Brady’s new composition, Trio Toccata.