Resolution, The Place’s annual festival for new choreography, returns this year running from 18 May – 16 June. It’s the UK’s biggest festival for dance, bringing together the hottest works by artists spanning different disciplines. […]
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Instigate Unknown on making dance work with its local community | interview
Words by Maria Elena Ricci. Earlier this year Instigate Unknown (IU), a contemporary and hip-hop influenced dance company, led a residency at Spark Lab Ilford, in the north-east side of London. Artistic director Cherilyn Albert […]
National Producers Taskforce launches campaign to build futures in the arts
A new initiative has been launched to address the dire shortage of roles and sustainable pathways for young and emerging producers. Jobs in the arts and culture sector have disappeared more than in other industries […]
Let’s Dance International Frontiers is back!
Let’s Dance International Frontiers is the dynamic annual dance festival in Leicester which presents live performances by fast-rising and established dance artists from the UK and abroad. The festival starts on International Dance Day, 29 […]
Siobhan Davies talks about her final work ‘Transparent’
Words by Katie Hagan. Last week Siobhan Davies and I sat down to have a chat about her latest and, it is touted, final work Transparent which will be screened at Sadler’s Wells on 20th April. Siobhan […]
Class and queerness: BULLYACHE on latest work ‘TOM’
TOM is a work that blends the myth of Orpheus with the Department for Work and Pensions. It’s a pop-culture collision of working class and queer expression. A conflicting space of tradition & lived experience, personal […]
Surge and Sub:Version by Tom Dale Company | review
Words by Josephine Leask. Jemima Brown walks calmly through an intense crossfire of laser beams. Projected from all around the stage they briefly scan the auditorium then track Brown, highlighting segments of her body as […]
Dance in the metaverse | review
How do we feel about dance in the metaverse? We review #CAPITAL: Fashion Opera in the Metaverse by Alastair White, an immersive fashion-dance-opera show fully within the digital world
For You: Wicked by Fimbo Butures | review
Words by Francesca Matthys. I was privileged to witness For You: Wicked by Fimbo Butures again, but this time, a developed version, one year later in a different space in London, part of the VAULT […]
NOW 23 presents Serafine1369 IV
NOW is back at The Yard with a month-long programme for the here and Now. Since 2014, NOW has supported, nurtured and showcased new ideas in theatre, supporting over 60 artists whose work has been presented […]