Words By Izzy Rogers, 23/05/19 Tonight brings the work of three postgraduate choreographers from London Contemporary Dance School: fresh talents making dance about what preoccupies them, minus the commercial pressures of delivering a ‘show’. The […]
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Dance to suppress oppression: Aakash Odedra Company #JeSuis review
21/05/19 Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury In a digital age where information can be accessed anywhere, anytime, it is bizarre that some stories escape documentation. Among posing many questions, Aakash Odedra Company’s award-winning #JeSuis interrogates the prejudice […]
Rambert / McGregor / Motin / Shechter – review
Words by Izzy Rogers. At 2.30pm on a Thursday, thick blue-grey smoke billows into the seating at Sadler’s Wells. The auditorium is reverberating with bass notes. This is the coolest contemporary dance has ever been. […]
In conversation with IRIE! dance theatre
IRIE! dance theatre is the first dance organisation in Europe to create a full-time, three year degree that puts African and Caribbean dance at the centre of dance education. You can re-read that statement a […]
Keira Martin – Wild Card: Where Ye From – Lilian Bayliss Theatre – review
Instead of asking where someone is from, isn’t it more interesting to ask them to tell us their story? Keira Martin’s sensitively curated Where Ye From is a lesson in how contemporary dance theatre removes […]
Shakespeare just got real, ‘Juliet & Romeo’ review – Lost Dog Co.
Words by Katie Hagan. 03/05/19 – Brook Theatre, Chatham. As its title suggests, Lost Dog’s Juliet & Romeo is an interpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Except this isn’t a play about naive star-crossed lovers, […]
Skilful quartet reinvents misogynist world of the 20th century anti-hero – ‘Baal’ Impermanence
Words by Sophie Catherine Chinner. From the company that produced SEXBOX, Da-Da-Darling and the 50-minute arthouse film The Ballet of the Nations, Bristol based dance company Impermanence tackle an innovative, new adaptation of the Bertolt Brecht […]
Review – Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s flat Bach suites – Sadler’s Wells
Words by Katie Hagan The idiom ‘lost in space’ typically refers to something that occurs sporadically or very rarely. In the case of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Mitten Wir Im Leben Sind (“In the Midst […]
BalletBoyz ‘Them/Us’, Theatre Royal Glasgow – review
A duet at the end of Them/Us stops me in my tracks. This evening of two separate works — demonstrating opposing modes of creation — is variable. But, in these final few minutes, I fall in […]
The Idiot review – a real reworking of a Russian classic
Words by Katie Hagan If you brought Dostoevsky back into a room to ask if his novel, The Idiot, could be considered an ‘embodied text’, I wonder what his answer would be. Renowned Japanese choreographer […]