Taking place on 13th September, Concrete Rain Festival presented a smorgasbord of dance created by East Asian choreographers and dancers. A celebration of the quiet force and eternal beauty of East Asian dance, Concrete Rain […]
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Michael Keegan-Dolan on How to be a Dancer in Seventy-two Thousand Easy Lessons
Michael Keegan-Dolan / Teac Damsa are known for creating works that draw on themes of identity, nationality, mortality and love to reflect on the human experience and our collective journeys. This week from 17-20 September, […]
Thousands march in solidarity with Palestine
Today, thousands of artists, cultural workers, and organisations marched from the Royal Opera House to Downing Street to protest what they describe as British arts institutions’ complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. Organised […]
Ella Tighe on new work Disco Queen & freestyle dance
Words by Katie Hagan. ‘Disco Queen’ explores the evolution and cultural significance of disco freestyle dance, particularly in working-class communities like Bradford. Ella emphasises the technical challenges and stereotypes associated with disco freestyle, aiming to […]
King O’Holi on Space to Create
Words by Georgia Howlett. King O’Holi prefers to stay in the background, but this hasn’t stopped him from working with household names as a movement[…]
WE SHOULD HAVE NEVER WALKED ON THE MOON by Rambert and (LA)HORDE review
Words by Bengi-Sue Sirin. ‘We should have never walked on the moon’ is a comment that Hollywood star Gene Kelly is reported to have made to astronaut Buzz Aldrin. WE SHOULD HAVE NEVER WALKED ON […]
An interview with Cirque Éloize
Pioneeing Canadian company Cirque Éloize return to the UK for an eight-venue Dance Consortium tour of their latest show iD Reloaded. We talked to Jeannot Painchaud, the company’s co-founder and the show’s director, ahead of […]
London Adavu’s perfect ‘The Showcase’
Words by Caroline Tonks. Just a short walk from Angel tube station is LIFT, where a passionate audience has gathered to watch the second edition of London Adavu – The Showcase. London Adavu is a […]
The Joystick and The Reins by Eve Stainton
Words by Florence Nicholls. I went into this performance not having come across Eve Stainton’s work before. But, a solo choreography built on riot arrest imagery and 1980s Crime Watch TV, accompanied by a live orchestra […]
Mele Broomes ‘through warm temperatures’ at Fringe
Originally commissioned as an exclusive live performance for the 20th anniversary of the Edinburgh Art Festival, the staged version of through warm temperatures by Mele Broomes running at Dance Base, as part of the Made […]