Words by Qiao Lin Tan. Pichet Klunchun Dance Company performs No.60 as part of Queer East Festival this year, a work that deconstructs the Thai classical dance canon of 59 set poses, in turn proposing […]
Unnatural Harmony: Sounds of Lee Alexander McQueen at Southbank Centre
Words by Georgia Howlett. Trigger warning: mention of suicide. Unnatural Harmony: Sounds of Lee Alexander McQueen kicks off Multitudes, the Southbank Centre’s multi-disciplinary arts festival with classical music at its core. The credits list is […]
Daniel Kok & Luke George on Bunny at BAC
Words by Qiao Lin Tan. Daniel Kok and Luke George (Singapore, Germany, Australia) bring their work Bunny to Battersea Arts Centre from 4-6 June for its London premiere as part of Queer East Festival 2026. […]
You & Us by Cathy Waller explores identity & invisibility
Words by Karly Benson. Cathy Waller Dance Company presented You & Us at The Place, an evening of photography, film, and live dance exploring the complicated nature of identity and how we exist not only […]
Almost dancing together: what Alexander Calder’s failed collaborations with Martha Graham tell us about dance
Words by Gus Hodgson. Take a piece of dance and begin removing elements from it. At what point is it no longer dance? Set and lighting design can go; so too can costumes and music, […]
RISE 2026 comes to Dance North Scotland
Dance North Scotland today announces the programme for RISE 2026, its annual festival of contemporary dance and performance, taking place from Saturday 23 May to Saturday 6 June 2026 across Caithness, Inverness, Findhorn and Glasgow. Centred on global indigenous voices, this […]
Dancers and their mothers: Step by Step by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
‘Step by Step’ (1982-1989) is a study of girls and their mothers at a dancing school in North Shields, in North East of England, and their later lives after leaving the school. Author Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen […]
London Margazhi and the longue durée of Bharatnatyam
Words by Dr. Debanjali Biswas. 50 years after Naseem Khan’s influential text ‘The Arts Britain Ignores’ (1976) encouraged British cultural institutions to build an infrastructure for diversity and inclusion towards ‘BAME’ (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic) […]
Dance Digital festival from Sadler’s Wells
Introducing Dance Digital, the film dance film festival from Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage & Studio. Curious about screendance as an art form? Come and enjoy the finest dance films from across the globe with shorts, […]
Candoco Dance Company announces new leadership model and initiatives
Candoco Dance Company today announces a new leadership model and ways of working that will see the company support more D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergentdance artists than ever before, as the organisation marks 35 years of pioneering inclusive dance. […]