Tag Archive for the term: review

No fanfare at Tangente this week. Fuck being submerged in a dark room, fuck seductive melodious music, fuck the ceremony that is usually the dance show. All that’s left of it is for us to walk in the room and sit in a chair, waiting for something to happen. The bright stage lights are already [...]

It’s darkness that reveals the world to us. Light only blinds us. It is that behind which bodies are hidden. Or so it is in New Yorker Gina Gibney’s View Partially Obstructed. Above the stage hangs a grid consisting of five by five squares, and from this grid hangs movable rectangular frames; some empty, appearing [...]

A couple in the middle of the Australian outback. An old red Corolla that won’t start. A pay phone that doesn’t work. No cell phone reception, of course. And, as the woman tries to find a radio station, Phil Collins’ voice emerging from the speakers. Like what things can always get worse.
So the couple fucks, [...]

The selection of January as the month that marks the beginning of a new year is no doubt arbitrary, and yet it still affects the way we perceive things. For me, it means I’ve put out my list of the dance shows that stuck with me over the past twelve months and it’s like the [...]

It’s almost a return to Tangente’s Double Territoire days we get to experience this week. Two thirty-minute works by different choreographers. One where the audience is sitting in the front of the room; the other, where we walk through the back door and around the space. And, even though they share a few characteristics and [...]

After giving us backstage access to the most hysterically funny rehearsal of a punk rock band with Hawks and Doves in 2007, choreographer Katie Ward is back at Tangente and this time puts the rock n’ roll in the title of her new work, Rock Steady. The characters that populate her world are not as [...]

Amidst grey skies, a few shards of light break the darkness. In Danièle Desnoyers’s Dévorer le ciel, the sky does not stand high above the dancers’ heads, but is so close that they could touch it. When they espouse the shapes created by the light, the sky comes to reflect the human mind and its [...]

It’s into a strange world that a beastly creature brings us as it rubs itself against our leg, urging us to follow it down the stairs. All the way down the stairs. For in David Pressault’s Corps intérieur, we cannot remain on the outside; we must inhabit the same dream as the performers.
Not much of [...]

It’s with the drama of the stage performance that S begins. The lights come on for the entrance of French pianist Claire Chevallier as she walks over to the piano dead centre at the back of the stage and sits down. And the lights are turned off, as if only to let us know that [...]

I had a strange experience last night. I felt like I was watching a show for kids, and yet there were no kids in the room. In retrospect, this disjunction might be one of the most fascinating aspects of construct, a dance-theatre show choreographed by Australian Tanja Liedtke, a young artist who passed away two [...]