Words by Qiao Lin Tan. In speaking about writer Audre Lorde, Dam Van Huynh comments, “When she wakes up, she is politics… In a way, I also describe myself in that manner.” Dam’s glittering list […]
Category: interviews
Q&A with Jean Abreu and Naishi Wang
How can the body be used as a instrument to say things that go unsaid? This is one of the many questions that Jean Abreu and Naishi Wang’s new work Deciphers asks. Embarking on its […]
SHEDDING SKINS: Choreographing healing in a world of patriarchy
Words by Stella Rousham. Content Warning: Sexual assault, eating disorders, trauma and gender “What does embodiment mean?” “Why is it important to you?” These were the opening questions to the Coming Home: Embodiment Tools for […]
Take Me Somewhere series: Ashanti Harris
Words by Sarah Lapinsky The Take Me Somewhere Festival is back again to bring audiences radical works from a diverse group of the world’s most cutting-edge contemporary performance makers. Running from the 13th through the […]
Take Me Somewhere series: NXSA
Words by Sarah Lapinsky. At the forefront of pioneering performances, the Take Me Somewhere Festival returns to once again enthrall Glasgow’s audiences with captivating and innovative works from a diverse group of artists dedicated to […]
Take Me Somewhere series: Louise Ahl
Words by Sarah Lapinsky. On the cutting edge of radical performance, the Take Me Somewhere Festival is back again bringing Glasgow audiences intriguing, exciting works from some of the world’s most ground-breaking performance makers. Kicking […]
Eve Stainton talks ‘Impact Driver’, art and welding
Words by Katie Hagan. I’m speaking to artist Eve Stainton just after they have finished an intense two-week period of cracking open their new work Impact Driver, which comes to the ICA this week. On […]
In conversation with Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Words by Giordana Patumi. Making her Dance Umbrella 2023 festival debut, Athens-based Ioanna Paraskevopoulou is an award-winning dancer and choreographer who focuses on the interplay between movement, sound and imagery, and whose past collaborators have […]
The vendetta to REVENGE pipeline with Gareth Chambers
Words by Jodie Nunn “I was at a complete dead end and being a follower of ancient mythologies I saw that there was power in having a vendetta and allowing that energy to transform you […]
Free-Flying | Interview with Elizabeth Rose Arifien
Conducted by Maxine Flasher-Düzgüne?. “Life is fleeting…especially if you are a ‘Damselfly’ living only for a few brief moments as a free-flying adult. With the essence of grievance slippery and intangible, every loss is unique, […]