Everyone loves a meme. They’re pretty much a staple of our digital lives. They can make you laugh, cry, sad, forlorn; almost always they are a mirror which you look into when you are alone […]

Everyone loves a meme. They’re pretty much a staple of our digital lives. They can make you laugh, cry, sad, forlorn; almost always they are a mirror which you look into when you are alone […]
Words by Katie Hagan. We all need to be watching Xavier Singer-Kingsmith and collaborators’ short dance fashion film Unapologetic which premiered in October 2020 as part of BBC Arts’ New Creatives programme for filmmakers. Latticing […]
Words by Ines Carvalho. As we press play on the video performance, a melancholic landscape of woodland emerges on the screen, contrasting with the figure of a body wearing a black suit in the middle […]
Words by Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş Togetherness is irreplaceable. Its memory washes over us like waves, its palpability remains an insurmountable reminder of its loss. In Jake Stangel’s 2018 film ‘Mercury’, Fullstop Dance company members Kathryn Florez […]
Words by Ines Carvalho. If this year is teaching us something in the arts sector, it’s definitely that the digital world can enhance a global community of artists to connect and reach wider audiences. Even […]
DAJ is so excited to announce that it’s part of a fantastic line-up for 2Faced Dance Company’s Multi Story Youth Arts Festival taking place on 11 & 12 December. Dance writing opportunities for young people are […]
Words by Katie Hagan Having some time for seclusion where we can be at one with our bodily senses is hard to come by in a world where we’ve become so desensitised. I trawl through […]
A reflective document written by Katie Hagan, dance art journal and Rachel Elderkin, Dance Dialogues Podcast. Introduction Following our WebRes event for Siobhan Davies Dance, we felt it important to create a document that highlights […]
Words by Katie Hagan With its title derived from the first line of a poem penned by the piercing Louise Glück, the great thing is not having a mind by Trinity Laban Fulbright scholar Oluwaseun […]
Words by Giordana Patumi Strabismi festival, Cannara, Perugia (Italy), 4-11 October 2020 What were you doing on Friday October the 9th? Maybe watching the Royal Ballet back on stage? Maybe having a drink (before 11pm […]