Words by Inês Carvalho. If we talk about inclusive dance in the UK, ‘Candoco’ is an inescapable name. Three decades after its establishment in 1991, Candoco Dance Company brings together past and present associates to […]
Category: interviews
Jules Cunningham talks choreography, power dynamics and m/y-kovsky | fire bird
Words by Stella Rousham In preparation for my interview with dance artist and choreographer Jules Cunningham last Saturday, I decided to listen to Stravinsky’s The Firebird and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto, No.1 – two canonical classical […]
“Experience, aliveness tell us that time isn’t linear” | Interview with SERAFINE1369
Words by Stella Rousham. Time is an essential organising principle. It determines when we sleep, wake, work and play. Whilst the mechanisms of time are often taken for granted, SERAFINE1369’s (Jamila-Johnson Small) latest multi-part installation, […]
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 […]
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 […]