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 […]
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Reflections: Sara Baras workshop – Sadler’s Wells Flamenco Festival
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 […]
Artist Roman Baca talks stereotypes, Trinity Laban & his new work In-Trench
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 […]
Rocio Molina’s Fallen from Heaven a flamenco dream – review
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 […]
Dream Ritual ‘explores the hazy chasm between waking and sleeping’ – review
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 […]
Build with the new & break from the old – Shobana Jeyasingh Dance’s Fluid Boundaries
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 […]
Dance without borders : in conversation with Nicoletta Key
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 […]
the Place LCDS Postgraduate Choreography 2019 – REVIEW
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 […]
Dance to suppress oppression: Aakash Odedra Company #JeSuis review
21/05/19 Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury In a digital age where information can be accessed anywhere, anytime, it is bizarre that some stories escape documentation. Among posing many questions, Aakash Odedra Company’s award-winning #JeSuis interrogates the prejudice […]
Rambert / McGregor / Motin / Shechter – review
Words by Izzy Rogers. At 2.30pm on a Thursday, thick blue-grey smoke billows into the seating at Sadler’s Wells. The auditorium is reverberating with bass notes. This is the coolest contemporary dance has ever been. […]