Lucy Guerin's Weather touches down at Cinquième Salle in Montréal

By Nancy Berman, 25 October 2013

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Reviewed at Place des Arts: Cinquième salle, Montreal on 22 October 2013

Weather (Lucy Guerin)

Lucy Guerin Inc.

Rambert: Murder, Mystery and A Party

John O'Dwyer, 10th May

Ninety years since it was founded, Rambert continues to bring varied and challenging dance styles to Sadler's Wells.

***11

Lucy Guerins Split am Théâtre des Abbesses

Stephan Eckel, 4th December

Die unendliche Teilung bis zum Kern der menschlichen Seele. Den Wachstumsdrang der modernen Zivilisation kehrt Lucy Guerin in ihrem Werk Split beispielhaft um.

*****

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

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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.