Words by Luella Rebbeck. Entering Wapping Hydraulic Power Station as part of Somerset House Studios 3 Evenings felt like stepping into a deserted office space hijacked by the future. The cavernous power station, with its […]
Dance is Not For Us @ Dance Umbrella 2026
Words by Georgia Howlett. The Barbican’s Pit theatre is a black box. A large upstage screen speaks to us to start the piece, Dance is Not for Us, a solo work by Lebanese choreographer, festival […]
Empowering disabled young people: interview with icandance
Established in 2006 and celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, icandance is a UK charity that works across Greater London to bring dance classes to young people who otherwise might not experience dance in mainstream settings. We sat […]
Erwin Olaf, dance photography and the problem with perfection
Words by Gus Hodgson. Erwin Olaf’s photographs of ballet dancers aren’t what you’d expect. There’s a whole subgenre of photography capturing ballet dancers with its own norms and stylistic conventions: dancers in technically demanding positions […]
Intricate, sharp & scandalous: Jess & Morgs DEEPFAKE
Words by Georgia Howlett. Why was the Prime Minister 24 minutes late to a royal banquet, and why should we care? Award-winning directors and choreographers Jess & Morgs return with high-level, interdisciplinary production DEEPFAKE, written […]
FEEDBACK to FEEDB’ACK by Bad Bias
Words by Luella Rebbeck. There was something fitting about encountering FEEDBACK to FEEDB’ACK inside the Horse Hospital, a Grade II listed building that already feels like it has absorbed years of bodies, pain, movement and […]
Reframing Pam Tanowitz Pastoral for the present
Words by Josephine Leask. Sarah Crowner’s abstract set for Pam Tanowitz’s Pastoral at the Barbican creates a refreshing contrast to the burnt-out colours of our drought-ridden summer. Vibrant emerald-green backdrops and curtains, spliced with light-pink leaves, divide the stage […]
Dancing Towards Repair: MA Dance Participation, Communities, Activism’s Online Symposium
Words by So’l Jelenke. From all corners of the globe, students presenting their final research projects at the London Contemporary Dance School‘s MA Dance: Participation, Communities, Activism symposium often began with a provocation, inviting online […]
Choreodrome @ The Place
Words by Rebecca Dodd. Choreodrome is The Place’s residency programme designed for independent makers and choreographers to play, experiment, discover and act on their choreographic tendencies. We watched one of the latest works in progresses […]
Beginning with the end: The Last Quartet by Seke Chimutengwende
Words by Eoin Fenton. The Last Quartet by Seke Chimutengwende, inspired partly by T.S. Eliot’s poetic cycle Four Quartets, is imagined as a last work, a last opportunity to dance. The choreographer enters the space […]