Words by Josephine Leask. Sarah Crowner’s abstract set for Pam Tanowitz’s Pastoral at the Barbican creates a refreshing contrast to the burnt-out colours of our drought-ridden summer. Vibrant emerald-green backdrops and curtains, spliced with light-pink leaves, divide the stage […]
Words by So’l Jelenke. From all corners of the globe, students presenting their final research projects at the London Contemporary Dance School‘s MA Dance: Participation, Communities, Activism symposium often began with a provocation, inviting online […]
Words by Rebecca Dodd. Choreodrome is The Place’s residency programme designed for independent makers and choreographers to play, experiment, discover and act on their choreographic tendencies. We watched one of the latest works in progresses […]
Words by Eoin Fenton. The Last Quartet by Seke Chimutengwende, inspired partly by T.S. Eliot’s poetic cycle Four Quartets, is imagined as a last work, a last opportunity to dance. The choreographer enters the space […]
Words by Josephine Leask. Directed and produced by the 2026 MA Screendance cohort, this year’s Frame Rush brought together experimental films by the previous year’s graduates and selected work by established international dance filmmakers. The […]
Words by Sarah Lapinsky. A blank projector screen. A click of a slide projector presents two chairs facing the ohter on the screen as lights fade up to reveal two chairs on stage. Slide click […]
Words by Maxime Swift. Like all good fairytales, Ode to The Dark is full of magic. Sculptures are brought to life, bodies are reanimated, and anything could be happening in the dark. This one-off performance […]
Words by Luella Rebbeck. Somehow, after spending an afternoon moving between performances in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, that felt true. The Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF) 2026 is dance in its honest, raw, fun-loving and sun-kissed […]
Words by Maxime Swift. Before the opening of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival, I was reading about The Mechanicos, the dance of the sponge divers. First devised by Theophilos Klonaris, it represented the daily toil […]
Words by Luella Rebbeck. From the beginning, At Your Disposal at Chisenhale Dance Space felt less like entering a theatre and more like arriving somewhere already occupied by friends and family. The performers showing new […]