For the first time ever Dora Frankel Ensemble, dance company based in Newcastle will perform at the Fringe, bringing the immersive, spine tingling performance Fragments of Poe to both Durham and Newcastle Fringe from 25th-27th […]
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Kamila CK on being a mature artist & her practice
Born in Poland in 1985 and based in the UK since 2007, interdisciplinary artist and performer Kamila CK came to dance and the wider field of art as a mature artist in her thirties. Defying […]
Darcy Wallace’s Mothertongue
Words by Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes. There is no rest under burden, there is no breath except inside the moment that never ends… Framed by bricks in the looks of a run-down tube station, a dancer snaps […]
Yewande 103’s meditative Many Lifetimes
Words by Pagan Hunt. Performed at Dance City. Yewande 103’s Many Lifetimes felt to me like just that; a series of unfolding histories. Set to the incredible live music of Bianca Wilson and Femi Oriogun-Williams beneath a glowing canopy, Alexandrina Yewande […]
Wolf-cries and rave: a reflection on FEAR
Words by Paula Catalina Riofrio. In bocca al lupo! answered one of the participants when I asked her how to say good luck in her mother tongue. In bocca al lupo (its English translation is […]
Three artists to present at Luxembourg Showcase
The first official Luxembourg Showcase of dance will take place at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, bringing together three extraordinary movement artists: Simone Mousset, Jill Crovisier and Giovanni Zazzera. The Luxembourg Showcase comes to Edinburgh courtesy […]
Birthday Fish is clever & surreal
Words by Isabela Palancean. ‘To drink like a fish’ takes on a new, surreal dimension in Birthday Fish, a physical theatre piece co-authored and performed by Stephanie Burrell and Erin Hughes. What starts off as […]
Transforming the dance industry’s future | LCDS graduation show
Words by Stella Rousham. Graduation shows come with a great pressure of compressing three years of learning into a single, polished performance, all stamped with a label of approval from an acclaimed dance company or […]
Sunhi Willa Keller presents Kaja!
Taking place from 26-27 July at Arts on Site, Kaja! will be an evening of storytelling, kimchi-making, dance, and theater. Sunhi Willa Keller’s playful, provocative, and whimsical choreography is an interweaving of traditional Korean dance […]
Here & Now presents Edinburgh Fringe programme
Here & Now presents an exciting, intriguing and thought-provoking programme of work created in England, during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024. Continuing the work of Horizon by delivering a showcase of international-quality, tour-ready performance, Here […]