Rosas in Montreal

By Rebecca Galloway, 05 May 2017

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“there is an intense oulipian joy to be had here”

Reviewed at Théâtre Maisonneuve, Montreal on 4 May 2017

Rain (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker)

Rosas

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Exit Above: just walking the blues away

Graham Watts, 12th November

The impressive music, especially in the live singing of Mees, is well worth the sometimes bewildering array of simultaneous activity, the confusions of intent and the occasional periods of inactivity.

***11

Transcendental Goldbergs from De Keersmaeker and Kolesnikov

Graham Watts, 6th September

De Keersmaeker’s career-long exploration of the interrelationship between music and movement continues at Sadler's Wells with pianist Pavel Kolesnikov.

****1

De Keersmaeker’s Fase without De Keersmaeker

Graham Watts, 17th March

The successful return of De Keersmaeker's early minimalist masterpiece, Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich in the Linbury Theatre.

****1

Fase opens the discussions on dance heritage in Berlin

Katja Vaghi, 24th August

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s epically physical dance Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, opened the month-long event series What the Body Remembers.

*****

A translation of Bach's music into movement

Sarah Kirkup, 24th April

Bach6Cellosuiten: De Keersmaeker and Jean-Guihen Queyras join forces for UK premiere at Sadler’s Wells.

****1

Rosas offers a study in elation, elegance and exaltation

Rebecca Galloway, 29th January

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

****1

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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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