Tentacle Tribe perfects the dance-technology fusion

By Rebecca Galloway, 18 November 2016

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“the choreography and video are intrinsically tied together and operate as two sides of the same coin”

Reviewed at Place des Arts: Cinquième salle, Montreal on 15 November 2016

Fractals of You (Tentacle Tribe)

Tentacle Tribe

Emmanuelle Lê Phan, Dancer

Elon Höglund, Dancer

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's Ghost is good, but not great

Rebecca Galloway, 13th November

Expectations are a tricky thing. High expectations more so.

***11

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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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