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Rebecca Galloway

Rebecca Galloway

Rebecca Galloway is a New Zealand-born writer and PR consultant for arts, design and culture. She studied dance for 13 years and has a degree in Art History from Victoria University of Wellington. She has held a variety of roles for organizations including the NZ School of Dance, City Gallery Wellington and Radio NZ, and was a strategic advisor to the national arts council Creative NZ. Rebecca left New Zealand for the United States, where she worked for renowned dance festival Jacob's Pillow in Massachussetts. Eventually finding herself in Montreal she fell in love and put down roots; currently splitting her time between communications for award-winning information design studio FFunction, dance criticism for a variety of publications and improving her rather patchy French. She tweets at @rtgalloway

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In Montreal, BJM pay tribute to Leonard Cohen

By Rebecca Galloway, 14 March 2019

Ballet Jazz de Montreal seems a logical choice to create a tribute to one of this city’s most celebrated musical icons, Leonard Cohen.

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BJM pay tribute to Leonard Cohen

By Rebecca Galloway

Swan Lake: if it ain't broke, don't fix it

By Rebecca Galloway, 21 February 2019

There’s a good reason Swan Lake is a box office blockbuster. Not only is it “famous” in the sense that even ballet neophytes know all about it, Swan Lake is a seriously meaty ballet with a narrative arc that offers tension-filled dynamics, a luscious score by Tchaikovsky and one of the most famous tragic love stories of all time.

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Swan Lake: if it ain't broke, don't fix it

By Rebecca Galloway

Rosas offers a study in elation, elegance and exaltation

By Rebecca Galloway, 29 January 2019

Famed Belgian company Rosas is back in Montreal with another revamped work from the repertoire, A Love Supreme.

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Rosas offers a study in elation, elegance and exaltation

By Rebecca Galloway

Grupo Corpo bring voluptuous samba vibes to Montreal

By Rebecca Galloway, 23 January 2019

Brazilian company Grupo Corpo celebrated its 44th anniversary this month with a trip to icy Montreal. True to their reputation, they burst onto the stage of Theatre Maisonneuve like a ball of sunshine, warm enough to thaw the blood and get the heart pumping again.

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Grupo Corpo bring voluptuous samba vibes to Montreal

By Rebecca Galloway

A Christmas miracle: Les Grands Ballets' updated Nutcracker

By Rebecca Galloway, 15 December 2018

Ballet companies around the world are in the thick of Nutcracker season right now, and many are grappling with some surprisingly meaty issues at the heart of this light, sugary ballet

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A Christmas miracle: Les Grands Ballet’s updated Nutcracker

By Rebecca Galloway

Tentacle Tribe's Ghost is good, but not great

By Rebecca Galloway, 13 November 2018

Expectations are a tricky thing. High expectations more so.

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Tentacle Tribe's Ghost is good, but not great

By Rebecca Galloway

Les Grands Ballets taps into the emotional depths of Lady Chatterley's Lover

By Rebecca Galloway, 4 October 2018

Les Grands Ballets Canadiens has brought a brand new piece to the stage; a neo-classical adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s controversial novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover.

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Les Grands taps into the emotional depths of Lady Chatterley's Lover

By Rebecca Galloway

An evening of stars in Montreal

By Rebecca Galloway, 7 June 2018

It’s the end of the 17/18 season for most ballet companies and for many, this means rounding off with a glitzy gala night. I feel these performances always go in one of two directions: they’re either a Greatest Hits or a bit of a patchwork quilt.

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An evening of stars in Montreal

By Rebecca Galloway

Crystal Pite, Jonathon Young and the beauty of grief

By Rebecca Galloway, 5 June 2018

The German word Betroffenheit doesn’t translate easily to English. Any German-English dictionary will spit out approximations like "shocked" and "dismayed", but for a real translation, see Crystal Pite and Jonathan Young’s challenging, beautiful work by the same name.

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Betroffenheit: Pite,Young and the beauty of grief

By Rebecca Galloway

With And so you see... Robyn Orlin strikes again in Montreal

By Rebecca Galloway, 2 June 2018

Labelled a “permanent irritation” in her home country of South Africa, Robyn Orlin takes the epithet as a compliment. She’s the grain of sand that makes a pearl! An imperfect one, but still.

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Robyn Orlin strikes again

By Rebecca Galloway

Experimental minimalism with TAO Dance Theater

By Rebecca Galloway, 23 May 2018

For China’s choreographic rising star, Tao Ye, numbers hold a pivotal significance. He works in numbered series, compiling a neat catalogue of minimalist, experimental dance that can be performed alone or sit buttressed up against each other.

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Experimental minimalism with TAO Dance Theater

By Rebecca Galloway

Three reasons to see a Sunday matinée of Casse Noisette

By Rebecca Galloway, 17 December 2017

Casse Noisette (the Nutcracker) is an annual tradition for shrieking hoardes of ballet-lovers all over the globe. If you want to keep it real, I heartily recommend a Sunday matinee.

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Les Grands' Casse Noisette

By Rebecca Galloway

Hofesh Shechter's powerful Grand Finale comes to Montreal

By Rebecca Galloway, 1 November 2017

It’s easy to feel like the world is on the brink of oblivion sometimes.

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Hofesh's Grand Finale in Montreal

By Rebecca Galloway

New Artistic Director of Les Grands Ballets puts spirituality front and centre

By Rebecca Galloway, 11 October 2017

Les Grands Ballets has a new Artistic Director – Ivan Cavallari – and 13 new dancers, mostly cherry-picked from some of Europe’s best ballet companies. Montreal audiences are in for a thorough journey through European contemporary ballet movements; which is not so far from the trajectory the previous Artistic Director Gradimir Pankov established during his tenure

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Les Grands Ballets: spirituality front and centre

By Rebecca Galloway

The golden ratio: Rosas gives us a masterclass in proportion and timing

By Rebecca Galloway, 4 May 2017

Montréal's Theatre Maisonneuve was packed almost to the the gods for the opening night of Rain, performed by renowned Belgian company Rosas.

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Rosas in Montreal

By Rebecca Galloway

The National Ballet of Ukraine brings Le Mariage de Figaro to Montreal

By Rebecca Galloway, 26 April 2017

Le Mariage de Figaro is meant to be a bit of a romp; a frothy drawing-room comedy of errors. In this respect, the National Ballet of Ukraine's production works perfectly.

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Le Mariage de Figaro, now a Ballet

By Rebecca Galloway

The epic universe of Akram Khan at TOHU, Montreal

By Rebecca Galloway, 18 March 2017

What's a woman to do when she loses agency over her body? Is gender just a construct? And at point does justice sour into something closer to revenge?

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Until the Lions seduces Montreal

By Rebecca Galloway

Dorrance Dance: a revelation

By Rebecca Galloway, 1 December 2016

Last week I decided I needed a stars-and-stripes-detox after bingeing on dramatic political coverage for the last six months. “No more,” I whimpered. “We need to go on a break, America.”

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Dorrance dance : a revelation

By Rebecca Galloway

Tentacle Tribe perfects the dance-technology fusion

By Rebecca Galloway, 15 November 2016

Fractals of You, from Montreal-based company Tentacle Tribe is one of the only works that I've seen master this technology-dance fusion (the other that springs to mind is the work of mega-watt Australian company Chunky Move).

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Tentacle Tribe perfects the dance-technology fusion

By Rebecca Galloway

NDT returns to Montreal after a 20 year absence

By Rebecca Galloway, 1 November 2016

The house was packed to the rafters at Montreal's Theatre Maisonneuve last Tuesday; it seemed the entire city turned out to witness Nederlands Dans Theater make its return after a twenty year absence.

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NDT returns to Montreal

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a rather lovely thing

By Rebecca Galloway, 11 October 2016

As a dancer, Bryan Arias has performed for Ohad Naharin, NDT, Jiří Kylián, Complexions and Crystal Pite. Now, as a choreographer, Arias' work echoes their collective MO: airy curves, fluid releases, and tender partnering.

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a rather lovely thing

By Rebecca Galloway

Festival Quartiers Danses: Ottawa Dance Directive & MAYDAY

By Rebecca Galloway, 14 September 2016

There exists a fertile space in between contemporary dance and performance art. It's kind of like a petri dish bubbling away in a warm laboratory.

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Festival Quartiers Danse: ODD and Mayday

By Rebecca Galloway

Festival Quartiers Danse: Transport Fade & Barouf in Montréal

By Rebecca Galloway, 11 September 2016

Continuing its reputation as Montreal's sampler box of contemporary dance, Festival Quartiers Danses presented two quite disparate works tightly buttressed up against each other in Cinquieme Salle on Sunday.

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Festival Quartiers Danse: Transport Fade & Barouf

By Rebecca Galloway

Festival Quartiers Danse: AXISTURN

By Rebecca Galloway, 9 September 2016

The opening of Festival Quartiers Danses in Montreal opened with AXISTURN, which was essentially three solos served with a grainy side of multimedia.

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Festival Quartiers Danse: AXISTURN

By Rebecca Galloway

Danse Danse brings the Brazilians (plus the return of Édouard Lock)

By Rebecca Galloway, 28 April 2016

São Paulo Companhia de Dança presents a mixed programme of works by Edouard Lock, Jomar Mesquita and Nacho Duato at the Théâtre Maisonneuve in Montréal

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Danse Danse brings the Brazilians

By Rebecca Galloway

The ladies of Les Grands Ballets shine in double bill world première

By Rebecca Galloway, 10 March 2016

Les Grands Ballet brought two international choreographers, Ken Ossola (Switzerland) and Shen Wei (USA) to Montreal to create brand new works for the repertoire, and the resulting double bill is an excellent showcase for Les Grands Ballets' lyricism and skill.

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Two excellent premières at Les Grands

By Rebecca Galloway

Triple dose of neoclassical minimalism from National Ballet of Canada

By Rebecca Galloway, 1 October 2015

The National Ballet of Canada opens the Danse Danse festival in Montreal with a triple bill of minimalist neoclassical works.

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Neoclassical minimalism in Montreal

By Rebecca Galloway

Les Ballets C de la B returns to Montreal with Tauberbach

By Rebecca Galloway, 29 May 2015

“MY EAR IS NOT A TOILET!” Les Ballets C de la B strikes again with a tenuous balancing act between the mundane, the tragic, the hilarious and the erotic.

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Platel's Tauberbach a triumph in Montreal

By Rebecca Galloway