Words by Francesca Matthys. Mapping Gender was performed at The Place in September 2022. Mapping Gender by Anders Duckworth in collaboration with sound artist Kat Austen–is a beautifully tailored piece of performance art/dance theatre that […]
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Maud le Pladec ‘Twenty-seven perspectives’ | review
Words by Maria Elena Ricci. Maud le Pladec’s Twenty-seven perspectives, presented the 1st and 2nd of October in Rome’s Auditorium Parco della Musica, is certainly not definable in a few, concise words. With dance works […]
Joseph Toonga on Born to Exist | interview
The final piece in Joseph Toonga’s acclaimed trilogy comes to The Place next week 25-26 October. We reviewed the first piece Born to Manifest a couple of years ago, and the second work Born To […]
Engaging older people through community dance | interview with Moving Memory
Words by Katie Hagan. Organisations based in local and regional communities are true agents of change. Moving Memory Dance Theatre Company, a north Kent based dance organisation established in 2010, is one such example, using […]
kid subjunctive by Funsch Dance | Review
Words by Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Things began before beginning…dancers danced behind oblivious raised programs…house lights buzzed. Was the dance in the adjusting curtains and the diagonal warm-up jogs? Was the dance in […]
Alexander Whitley Dance Company on new creation Anti-Body | interview
Words by Katie Hagan. “I’m interested in the subject of the post-human or trans-human, which, in its most extreme form is the idea that we can download someone’s mind onto a computer chip. I find […]
Revelling in the Reverie | interview with Georgia Tegou & Michalis Theophanous
Words by Giordana Patumi. It was an unexpected bright summer morning in Switzerland when I got the chance to have a chat with Georgia Tegou & Michalis Theophanous – who even connected from Japan and […]
A day at Dance City’s Creative Summer 2022 | interview
Words by Katie Hagan “Dance will forever be a part of people’s lives” expresses Anand Bhatt of Dance City, the organisation’s recent CEO who was also producer of Aakash Odedra Company when it became the […]
Choreography, writing and Nora the Many | Interview with Nora
We chat to performance collective Nora about writing dance, expanding definitions of choreography and their new work Nora which will be presented at Sadler’s Wells
MeToo and challenging Asian beauty standards in Sung Im Her’s Nutcrusher | review
Words by Stella Rousham. I, along with the rest of the audience, enter to pulsating, whirring music. As I wander over to my seat, my eyes are immediately drawn to the three dancers who are […]