Festival Quartiers Danse: AXISTURN

Por Rebecca Galloway, 11 septiembre 2016

Descargando, espere, por favor...

Ver la programación

Crítica hecha desde Place des Arts: Cinquième salle, Montreal el 9 septiembre 2016

Jeffrey Hall, Coreografía

Lana Morton, Coreografía

Katia Gagné, Coreografía

Tentacle Tribe's Ghost is good, but not great

Rebecca Galloway, 13th November

Expectations are a tricky thing. High expectations more so.

***11

Tentacle Tribe perfects the dance-technology fusion

Rebecca Galloway, 15th November

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).

****1

Festival Quartiers Danse: ODD and Mayday

Rebecca Galloway, 14th September

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.

****1

Festival Quartiers Danse: Transport Fade & Barouf

Rebecca Galloway, 11th September

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.

***11

Danse Cité presents Audrey Bergeron

Pia Savoie, 14th January

Danse Cité, an open partner for Montreal artists as they venture into unknown territory, presents Audrey Bergeron's Par le chas de l'aiguille

****1

A 50-year ritual: Rites by José Navas

Pia Savoie, 11th November

José Navas celebrates turning 50 with Rites, a new solo performance combining four unique works, that pushes him to uncover the limits of his mature body.

***11

Más críticas...

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