Words by Katie Hagan. Founded in 1982 by then artistic director Bonnie Bird, Trinity Laban’s resident postgraduate outfit Transitions Dance Company comprises 14 dancers from around the globe who complete a rigorous audition process to […]
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“There is so much to learn from Deaf dance culture” | interview with Surface Area Dance Theatre
Words by Katie Hagan “I really wanted to do something that I could remember her by. I wanted to feel as if she’d helped in some way.” Seven years ago, Nicole Vivien Watson director of […]
Experiment 6 ‘South London Scratch Night’ | Review
Words by Stella Rousham. Seeing new work is something that I have truly missed in lockdown. For all the endless videos of old performances filmed and available online, nothing is quite the same as watching […]
Reclaiming Adult Dance | Interview with Elizabeth Arifien, Creative Dance London
Words by Katie Hagan Elizabeth Arifien founder and creative director of Creative Dance London is on a mission to change the perceptions of adult dance. In our culture of comparison, adult classes have long been […]
Skin & Scales by Darcy Wallace | A Poetic Response
By Angel Dust and Katie Hagan. – The female body as an othered body, the body of a witch. To reclaim the touch with nature from the talons of man, whose all pervasive hegemonic gaze […]
DAJ awarded Siobhan Davies Dance Percolate residency
We are thrilled to announce that we are one of the four artists who have been awarded a residency at Siobhan Davies Dance as part of its Percolate programme! The DAJ team will be heading […]
Smithson, interrupted By Adam Moore | Hypothetical Islands | Review
Preface Robert Smithson opened western artistic practice to a new landscape of possibilities, both inside and beyond the gallery. For me, his practice engages the ongoing enquiry of my own visceral, tactile, and embodied experiences, […]
Unboxing art, touring ideas: an interview with Greenwich Dance
Words by Katie Hagan Dance isn’t something we’d consider to be static. Whilst movement can be punctuated by moments of pause and stasis, on the whole we see or understand dance as characterised by flow, […]
Dora Frankel talks ‘Tread Lightly on the Planet’
Words by Katie Hagan. “To transition to a sustainable world, we need to tread more lightly on the planet.” – Professor Andy Purvis. Inspired by the crisp lucidity and aptness of these words, Dora Frankel […]
The Voice as a Portal for Embodied Activism – Interview with pateldanceworks
Words by Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş “Movement and art making [can] be tools for activism,” states Bhumi Patel, Artistic Director of pateldanceworks, an intersectional artist collective operating outside traditional western dance practices and inside models of improvisation […]
