Words By Jessie Acton. Performed 19.07.19. Several journeys begin on the rolling, rain-drenched lawn of the Trinity Laban building, as we are invited to participate in dance artist and Fulbright-Trinity Laban Scholar, Roman Baca’s durational work In-Trench. […]
Words by Katie Hagan. Performed 19/07/19 Sadler’s Wells, London. Not often do you see a performance so visionary that you wonder how on earth you are going to translate its impact into words. MADHEAD, the paradigmatic brainchild […]
Words by Katie Hagan. Jaivant Patel Dance‘s bill YAATRA performed at the Blue Elephant Theatre, London. Walking into the Blue Elephant’s performance space, we were greeted by what appeared to be hanging light bulbs lingering […]
Words by Katie Hagan. 05.07.19 Flamenco. It was unlike any dance style I’ve ever sampled in my life. Whereas with some dance styles you can to an extent see similarities — the bent knees, low […]
Words by Katie Hagan. The sacrificial artist is not an uncommon image in our culture. Whether you are a dancer, writer or filmmaker, you are accustomed to sacrificing many things for the sake of your […]
Words by Katie Hagan. Fallen from Heaven Sadler’s Wells, London. 09-07/19 When RocÃo Molina rolled on the floor of the unending Sadler’s Wells stage — kicking up her pure white, duvet-like caricature of a flamenco […]
Words by Stella Rousham. Dream Ritual performed at The Coronet, Notting Hill 03/07/19 Dream Ritual operates in many liminal spaces; the hazy chasm between waking and sleeping, the conscious and subconscious, virtual and physical, art […]
Words by Katie Hagan The value of interdisciplinary, site-specific, community-led dance performances can never be stressed enough. For some they provide an escape, opening-up a space for people to see it in ways never done […]
We sat down with fusion-ista choreographer and mover, Nicoletta Key Bonanni, to discuss her practice, her company Movement Deco‘, cross-cultural communication, movement appropriation and the intimate sources of inspiration essential to her growth as an […]
Words By Izzy Rogers, 23/05/19 Tonight brings the work of three postgraduate choreographers from London Contemporary Dance School: fresh talents making dance about what preoccupies them, minus the commercial pressures of delivering a ‘show’. The […]