Words by Katie Hagan Although the pandemic has seized many aspects of the dance industry’s identity – physical touch, studio time, performance IRL – it has not destroyed its spirit. This is the premise of […]
Category: reviews
Unapologetic BBC Arts New Creatives By Xavier Singer-Kingsmith – review
Words by Katie Hagan. We all need to be watching Xavier Singer-Kingsmith and collaborators’ short dance fashion film Unapologetic which premiered in October 2020 as part of BBC Arts’ New Creatives programme for filmmakers. Latticing […]
Emilia Robinson and Sidonie Carey-Green Becoming-Animal – Review
Words by Ines Carvalho. As we press play on the video performance, a melancholic landscape of woodland emerges on the screen, contrasting with the figure of a body wearing a black suit in the middle […]
Re:Sense by Iris Athanasiadi – review
Words by Katie Hagan Having some time for seclusion where we can be at one with our bodily senses is hard to come by in a world where we’ve become so desensitised. I trawl through […]
‘the great thing is not having a mind’ by Oluwaseun S. Olayiwola – review
Words by Katie Hagan With its title derived from the first line of a poem penned by the piercing Louise Glück, the great thing is not having a mind by Trinity Laban Fulbright scholar Oluwaseun […]
‘RANDOM ACTS OF LOVE’ FOR THE FUTURE OF ARTS
Words by Giordana Patumi Strabismi festival, Cannara, Perugia (Italy), 4-11 October 2020 What were you doing on Friday October the 9th? Maybe watching the Royal Ballet back on stage? Maybe having a drink (before 11pm […]
‘NOWhere’ & ‘Be fruitful and multiply’ – review
Words by Katie Hagan. We should all be keeping a close eye on the work that is emerging from the group of dance artists at London Contemporary Dance School. Creating work that is cerebral, multimedia-ed, […]
MCDC’s I Love Myself, Do You? – review
Words by Katie Hagan. A billowing, sartorially-hung cloth of gold suspended from upstage left is draped across the Blue Elephant Theatre‘s performance space, like a figure nonchalantly lying on a chaise longue, undisturbed. Such a […]
Peeping Tom 32 rue Vandenbranden: Extreme bodies face human condition
Words by Giordana Patumi. After nearly 200 shows and ten years on the road, 32 rue Vandenbranden by Peeping Tom premiered in the US, at BAM New York. Originally opened on November 2009 in Koninklijke […]
Janine Harrington’s it’ll-blow-your-mind Screensaver Series – review
Words by Adam Moore. Shoryuuuuu-ken!!! The year is 1996 and Dark Ryu is gearing up to obliterate me in an unstoppable, mathematical equation that only the PlayStation really understands. All I can do is watch the […]
