Words by Florence Nicholls. On the 13th of December, Romany Dear will be hosting their workshop, Constellations of Together-mess, with Independent Dance (ID) at Siobhan Davies Studios. Romany is a body-based practitioner, access worker, and […]
What to see at Resolution 2026 The Place
Resolution 2026 comes to The Place from Friday 9 January – Wednesday 25 February 2026, bringing together 60 companies across 20 exhilarating nights of performance. The UK’s biggest festival of new choreography, Resolution has been […]
body on the edge of doomscroll: evan ray suzuki’s plot hole
Words by Liana Zhen-ai. I walked up the escherian steps to Pageant in Brooklyn knowing only one thing about how the evening would proceed: evan ray suzuki promised to punch me in the face at […]
Keep Moving: Defying Limits, Defining Leadership, Dancing Legacy
Words by Jodie Nunn. “I feel like a choreographer now – I call myself a choreographer and this is what I want to do.” Placing two disabled dance artists within a professional setting should not […]
HOMECOMING by Georgia Tegou & Kristina Pulejkova
Words by Georgia Howlett. Straight off the rainy streets of London, I arrive flustered at The Place. The ambience of HOMECOMING’s immersive installation is immediately serene, and therefore welcome. HOMECOMING is a mixed reality performance […]
Cherish Menzo’s macabre FRANK
Words by Maxime Swift. October – the macabre month – was a fitting time to see FRANK by Cherish Menzo. At the start of the performance (as part of Take Me Somewhere festival) once the […]
How can artists articulate their work? Interview with Shannelle ‘Tali’ Fergus
Scratch Renaissance is a programme created by Chisenhale Dance Space, together with its Artist Community, that is designed to reinvigorate scratch culture in the UK. To document and help amplify the programme, we launched an […]
Amina Khayyam’s ‘Bibi Rukiya’s Reckless Daughter’
Words by Ranjini Nair. I was keen to attend Amina Khayyam’s Bibi Rukiya’s Reckless Daughter as a relative outsider to British South Asian dance. I say relative outsider, because even while I am trained in […]
‘SINEMATIC’ a celebration of Black women’s legacy
Words by Lizzy Tan. SINEMATIC Cabaret at Emerald Theatre is an ambitious journey through Hollywood history, expertly steered by emcee Busola who weaves a narrative thread and primes each act through audience engagement (volunteer callouts, […]
National Company Dance Wales’ SURGE / GWEFR
Words by Isabela Palancean. Presented by National Company Dance Wales, SURGE / GWEFR introduced a triple-bill comprising three new works, guiding the viewer on a warped journey from dreamlike liminality to a post-humanist universe, to finally land in the realm of ancient myth. […]