When East meets West: Sinha Danse with Constantinople perform Sunya

By Nancy Berman, 19 April 2013

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Reviewed at Place des Arts: Cinquième salle, Montreal on 17 April 2013

śūnya (Roger Sinha)

Sinha Danse

Ensemble Constantinople

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

Festival Quartiers Danse: AXISTURN

Rebecca Galloway, 9th September

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

**111

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

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Nancy Berman

Nancy Berman studied piano at York University and Musicology at McGill University, where she received her PhD in 2002. She currently teaches Music Literature in Montreal, Canada, and contributes articles and reviews on music and dance to various online sites.