Review: Dog Rising by Montréal-based Clara Furey

The Georgia Straight

Never mind the Arctic outflow that brought temperatures of -14 to Vancouver on Friday—a keen, bundled-up audience packed out the Roundhouse to see Dog Rising by Montréal-based choreographer Clara Furey.

It was a wild ride from the quiet start—three dancers moving from the edges of the red-lit stage to find positions of rest on the marley dance floor—to a sensation-smashing assault of sound, light, and movement somewhere between urgency and transcendence…