Words by Diane Parkes. When Emily Molnar took up the post of artistic director of Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) in August 2020 it was a key moment in the development one of Europe’s most influential […]
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DAJ features WirrWarr, a dance film on loss & separation
Words by Katie Hagan. As well as writing reviews and conducting interviews at dance art journal, we feature dance films directed and produced by independent artists. We are pleased to announce that this month, we […]
Trinity Laban Fulbright Will Byram: “I’m committed to creating more art in the American South” | interview
Words by Katie Hagan. “I think artists have all had some weird reckoning over the past year” contemplates dancer and Trinity Laban Fulbright Will Byram as we speak one afternoon. “We look at the world […]
“Dance helps my body find its centre” | Interview with Minako Seki
Words by Dally Schwarz It was October, the beginning of the autumn and almost the end of 2020. I was in my room in Lisbon and I remember it was during a hard moment of […]
Sanctuary on the Fault Line’s latest gathering to explore dance’s potency
New women’s movement Sanctuary on the Fault Line is inviting women dancers and the public worldwide to a three day gathering that will orient dance deeper into its potency. Taking place in-real-life and virtually between […]
Human Measure gives space to trans bodies | Interview with Cassils & Jasmine Albuquerque
Words by Hannah Draper. When I leave Cassils’ retrospective exhibition ‘Human Measure’ at HOME in Manchester I’m reminded of that fuzzy orangey blue shape that appears in your vision after looking at the sun for […]
Womanewer by Laura Kenyon | Review
Words by Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes. Performed at Academy Mews Dance Studio. The danger is everywhere…walking home alone at night…I could easily be overpowered… In the quaint lamplit space of what could easily have been an emptied […]
Folk-s: Will you still love me tomorrow? by Alessandro Sciarroni| Review
Words by Giordana Patumi. I’m going to start by saying that myself and almost the entire audience stayed until the very end of ‘FOLK-S: Will you still love me tomorrow?’ by Alessandro Sciarroni. Sciarroni presented […]
VOXED: Out Late | Review | Guest Writers
Words by Sarah Lapinsky. ‘Out Late’ is the second production created by Wayne Parsons in collaboration with writer Ankur Bahl. A dance-theatre crime drama centring around a love triangle between a wife, her “fiercely-closeted” husband […]
Boy’s Khaya by Tavaziva Dance | a poem by Jessie Jing
Powerfully moving and personal, BOY’S KHAYA is the latest work and account of Bawren Tavaziva’s early life in Zimbabwe told through a mesmerising combination of contemporary, ballet and African dance, with a spoken-word soundtrack and […]