Words by Lizzy Tan. Freddie Opoku-Addaie knows the freelance dance sector from the inside. Alongside an impressive career as an independent dance artist, Freddie is Artistic Director and Co-CEO of Dance Umbrella, London’s international dance […]
Notes from the Pod: Julia Pond’s ‘Metabolizer’
Words by Lizzy Tan. In a small gallery in a quiet English town, a bright green sign on the pavement reads: METABOLIZER IS OPEN – COME INSIDE – DANCE – CHAT – DANCE – SIT […]
The Dancing Body: A Site for Research magazine
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KWAM Collective’s feverish double bill
Words by Josephine Leask. KWAM Collective’s double bill at Rich Mix is an ambitious and provocative evening in which three exceptional multidisciplinary dance[…]
Common Threads Vol. 2 at Union Theatre: Clara Selberg, Finleigh Zack Dance, Nadine Elise Muncey, and Tiegan Doyle
Words by Lizzy Tan. Tiegan Doyle’s Is This Bliss In Is This Bliss, suited figures stand in for an ambiguous, systemic force pressing in from offstage. Rapid hand gestures – alternating between friendly and threatening […]
Fast Fwd, again! – a new documentary dance film
Fast Fwd, again! uses the summer feel of Tanika’s “Fast FWD,” featuring Kida Kudz, as its starting point — a motivation to create further, taking the choreography Shakeel Kimotho made for the track into fuller, […]
The Madding Crowd: Stephanie Lake’s COLOSSUS
Words by Eoin Fenton. Everyone is doing smaller works these days. Often when flicking through dance offerings of the season you’re met with an increasing amount of solos and duets, trios and works for smaller […]
Gadzi by nora chipaumire | the wise sage and the curious; keeper of rocks
Words by Francesca Matthys. The Infinities Commission: nora chipaumire: Gadzi breathes life and ritual into Tate Modern. This type of exhibitionary work is a first for the artist, who constructed the entire exhibition by hand. However […]
Watch Jules Cunningham’s f.bird on Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage
Enfolding, unfolding, alight, queer intelligibility of birdwatching or is it the birds watching? Unclassified, without knowing. Discontinuous. dancing. Taking flight,[…]
Rohan Ayinde & Tayo Rapoport on emi: freedomsong
Words by Katie Hagan. This week, artist duo Rohan Ayinde and Tayo Rapoport will present the audio-visual work emi: freedomsong*. Made in collaboration with curator Zarina Rossheart and in dialogue with bell hooks’ ‘All About […]