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

The Royal Ballet and McGregor: stunning dancing but nothing really new

Deborah Weiss, 18th April

An evening of ballets by Wayne McGregor, including the world premiere of Quantum Souls, proved to be a little too much of the same thing.

***11

The Center Will Not Hold: Dorrance Dance thrills at Sadler's Wells

Daniel Pratt, 17th April

Dorrance Dance offer a compelling mix of genres in The Center Will Not Hold – high energy, full of surprises, top quality performances.

****1

Natalia Makarova's La Bayadère: a night to remember in Oslo

Vikki Jane Vile, 17th April

Norwegian National Ballet gives a marvellous rendition of Natalia Makarova's La Bayadère. Opening night in Oslo was a strong argument for its place in any season, displaying ballet escapism at its best.

****1

Scottish Ballet’s Starstruck: plenty of pzazz in Glasgow

Kathy Elgin, 16th April

Christopher Hampson’s newly updated Starstruck is thoroughly entertaining with sexy solos, classical pas de deux and lines of perfectly-timed Broadway hoofing.

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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