Entre Deux brings adoption and identity to the dance stage
MAI presents Claudia Chan Tak's new work exploring a woman's journey between cultures through six duets running June 3 to 6.
Entre Deux, a new dance work premiering this week at MAI, explores the internal landscape of a woman caught between two worlds—tracing the experience of international adoption through movement and duet.
Choreographed by Claudia Chan Tak and inspired by Meihan Carrier-Brisson's personal journey, the piece features Meihan alongside six dancers in a series of intimate duets illustrating the pull between cultures. Rather than narrating adoption as a story, the work uses the body as territory: a place of reminiscence, exploration, and transformation. Each duet probes a different layer of identity—a visceral investigation into what it means to carry two homelands within one self.
The production creates space for agency, connection, and conversation around adoption and belonging. The choreography moves with precision and vulnerability, inviting audiences into the embodied experience of searching for roots and reconciling inherited identity.
Entre Deux runs at MAI (3680 Jeanne-Mance) from June 3 to 6. This is a moment to witness how dance can articulate what words often cannot—the quiet, powerful reckoning of finding yourself between two places.