Words by Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş. Performed at Academy Mews Dance Studio. The danger is everywhere…walking home alone at night…I could easily be overpowered… In the quaint lamplit space of what could easily have been an emptied […]
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First Love an ode to romance| Marco D’Agostin | Review
Word by Giordana Patumi. ‘First Love’ is like a letter put into an envelope and addressed to your first love. It is the story of a young boy in the 90s who did not like […]
Folk-s: Will you still love me tomorrow? by Alessandro Sciarroni| Review
Words by Giordana Patumi. I’m going to start by saying that myself and almost the entire audience stayed until the very end of ‘FOLK-S: Will you still love me tomorrow?’ by Alessandro Sciarroni. Sciarroni presented […]
Boy’s Khaya by Tavaziva Dance | a poem by Jessie Jing
Powerfully moving and personal, BOY’S KHAYA is the latest work and account of Bawren Tavaziva’s early life in Zimbabwe told through a mesmerising combination of contemporary, ballet and African dance, with a spoken-word soundtrack and […]
Reflecting on Sivan Rubinstein’s Dance No 2° | Review
Words by Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş. Watched at The Place, London. “There is no activism without hope,” said choreographer Sivan Rubinstein in the post-show talk, speaking of her piece Dance No 2° as a culmination of her […]
Carareretetatakakekerers Normal Conditions / Nicola Conibere | review
Words by angel dust. Watched at Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis Studio. Walking home that night, holding the thoughts and processes of a group of humans, softly layered on top of one another, unstapled, fragile and […]
SMACK & Spektakel at Rich Mix | Review
Words by Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş A rainy Saturday at Rich Mix London’s split bill SMACK & Spektakel marked a witty journey back to the pre-teen era of Barbie Girl and even further to the neoclassical musings […]
Looking into the eyes of Marlene Monteiro Freitas | Review
Mal – Embriaguez Divina Words by Inês Carvalho. Eighteen months since the last time I went to see a live performance, I step into the large entrance of Teatro Municipal do Porto (Rivoli) for an […]
“Turning to nature” Zara Sands ‘Hibernation Dream’| Review
Words by Katie Hagan Although Zara Sands’ Hibernation Dream may open on a habitual woodland scene, there’s nothing predictable about this dance work. Instead, and more compellingly, Hibernation Dream casts the wood as a site […]
Charlotte Spencer Projects ‘Is this a Waste Land?’ | Review
Words by Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş At moments, dance exists as a migratory sensation. Sometimes we need to come and go from ourselves as we move, our bodies like mini-wingspans and reminders of what it is to […]
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