Platel's Tauberbach a triumph in Montreal

By Rebecca Galloway, 31 May 2015

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“a tenuous balancing act between the mundane, the tragic, the hilarious and the erotic.”

Reviewed at Salle Ludger-Duvernay, Montreal on 29 May 2015

Tauberbach (Alain Platel)

Les ballets C de la B

Alain Platel / Ballets C de la B

Erin Whitcroft, 30th June

Tackling existential themes Alain Platel’s les ballets C de la B bring the audience to the edge of catastrophe through frantic movement.

***11

En Avant Marche!

Christopher Curtis, 16th June

Moments of intense beauty amid a bewlidering stream of ideas, impressions, clichés, quotations and emotions. Great performances. Band practice as a microcosm of the human condition.

***11

Ballet for cowboys and soldiers at Kansas City Ballet

Hilary Stroh, 20th March

Kansas City Ballet celebrate the USA’s 250th anniversary with three American ballets. Balanchine's Stars and Stripes, de Mille's Rodeo and a new work by Caili Quan, A Home Away.

****1

English National Ballet’s Body and Soul: a very mixed bag

Deborah Weiss, 19th March

English National Ballet presents a double bill of contrasts at Sadler’s Wells with startlingly mixed results, not all positive.

***11

Alexander Whitley: the cutting edge of dance and technology

Graham Watts, 18th March

Two new works by Alexander Whitley, Mirrors and The Rite of Spring, explore society’s increasing dependency on AI in dance.

***11

Ailey II dancers shine in ambitious mixed bill at the Joyce Theater

Carla Escoda, 18th March

In their penultimate stop on a US tour, Ailey's second company produced exceptional performances in an Ailey classic and four handsome new works.

****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

Les Ballets C de la B returns to Montreal with Tauberbach