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Der Standard
Black Humour Underneath Kilts
An exactly calculated, sometimes puzzling piece, which expresses the inexpressible with black humour.
Ballet international, Tanz aktuell
Six dancers in Search of a Taboo
Taboo Or Not is beyond expectation. At the beginning dance happens predominantly while sitting: no problem for Donlon & Co! They leave their legs out, all of them in different kilts, hardly hesitating to reveal their charms. The depth of this amusement shows when the six dancers rise to playful solo magnificence.
Die Presse
(...).it was without question the evening of the Irish choreographer Marguerite Donlon, who choreographed in Taboo Or Not a tragic comic story about an outsider. A secret gets forwarded to everybody like in a game "Chinese whispers" except this one outsider. Ms Donlon creates a charming confusion about an outsider, who desperately tries to discover the "secret". The solution expressed by the means of original movement manifested itself in the precisely worked out movement patterns. The fast foot and leg work, influenced by Irish dance, not only cased additional thrill, but it was very effectively translated by the outstanding dancers in their Kilts..
Der Kurier
"Marguerite Donlons success with the Vienna State-Opera Ballet"
A choreographer is discovered. The 33 year old Irish woman Marguerite Donlon earned great success in the name of the "Off Ballet" on Thursday in the Odeon. Donlon was already noticed two years ago with a duo called "Watching You Watching Us" in the "Wiener Kuenstlerhaus". There she showed herself as a dancer with new ideas and a sense of humour in her movement, which sometimes seems to have affinity to traditional Irish dance.
In the world premiere of"Taboo or Not" Marguerite Donlon shows six people who seem to be stuck to a row of chairs who then break out into solos. Their feet seem to run away from their owners. Standing in a spotlight , "the peoples" wishes, and taboos arise. "I want to have sex with flies" from the Tiger Lillies can be heard in a collage of music together with music from Sam Auinger, and Bruce Odland. In harmonic movements the six dancers dressed in kilts and colourful shirts establish order.
In the apparently personal stories the characters are laid open, characters especially forcefully represented by Iva Gattin and Tomislav Petranovic, as well as Robert Hewitt, Sefton Clarke, Johannes Stepanek and Ronald Malzer. The piece changes between humour and bitter seriousness and with its multiple choice of ways to express itself, gives the dancers a tremendous challenge. Marguerite Donlon is a candidate for the big stage of the "Vienna Staatsoper".
Wiener Zeitung
Staatsoperballett im Odeon: Off Ballet VIII "Dancers secrets on a very hot evening"
It was worth waiting till the end in the sauna temperatures at the Odeon on Thursday. The Irish choreographer and dancer Marguerite Donlon thrilled the audience with her piece "Taboo or Not" not only with its innovative and fresh movement quality but also with its (thematisch schrä?ge abwechslung an einem an entdeckungen recht bescheidenen abend ) contemporary themes.
In brightly coloured Scottish kilts the dancers attempt to tell their secrets. In the end there is one who finally manages to tell his secret to the tasteful (Köstlichen) song "I want to have sex with flies". The dance language which Ms Donlon has created is a fantastic ironic mixture between Irish folk dance and contemporary vocabulary in which the audience (Großen anklang) applauded wildly for...
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