Words by Jo Leask. Sunday afternoon spent at the APT gallery in Creekside, Deptford, for the final day of Fest En Fest 24 feels like visiting an oasis of hope and a well of alternative […]
Category: reviews
“We Move in Circles entwines life & performance”
Words by Paula Riofrio. It was 5:58 and I was lying upon the moss covered roots. The invitation I received a couple weeks ago was clear: arrivals would start at 6pm. A woman crossed the […]
Darcy Wallace’s Mothertongue
Words by Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes. There is no rest under burden, there is no breath except inside the moment that never ends… Framed by bricks in the looks of a run-down tube station, a dancer snaps […]
Yewande 103’s meditative Many Lifetimes
Words by Pagan Hunt. Performed at Dance City. Yewande 103’s Many Lifetimes felt to me like just that; a series of unfolding histories. Set to the incredible live music of Bianca Wilson and Femi Oriogun-Williams beneath a glowing canopy, Alexandrina Yewande […]
Wolf-cries and rave: a reflection on FEAR
Words by Paula Catalina Riofrio. In bocca al lupo! answered one of the participants when I asked her how to say good luck in her mother tongue. In bocca al lupo (its English translation is […]
Birthday Fish is clever & surreal
Words by Isabela Palancean. ‘To drink like a fish’ takes on a new, surreal dimension in Birthday Fish, a physical theatre piece co-authored and performed by Stephanie Burrell and Erin Hughes. What starts off as […]
Transforming the dance industry’s future | LCDS graduation show
Words by Stella Rousham. Graduation shows come with a great pressure of compressing three years of learning into a single, polished performance, all stamped with a label of approval from an acclaimed dance company or […]
Tracing lineage in Roots to Rise by Nandita Shankardass
Words by Francesca Matthys. The collective of dancers made up of Anjana Bala, Vidya Patel and Tulani Kayani-Skeef in Nandita Shankardass’s Roots to Rise are like beautiful magenta, pink and purple flowers that appear between […]
Oona Doherty scores with ‘Wall’ performed by NYDC
Words by Hannah Finnimore. “All for oneAnd one for allYou hear the callYour country needs youTo play football” More tender, patient and thoughtful than the title suggests, Oona Doherty’s Wall (performed by the brilliant NYDC) […]
Opera Locos is a complete hit
Words by Bengi-Sue Sirin. Since 1991, the Spanish comedy and physical theatre company Yllana have delighted audiences in over 48 countries. And last week they came to London’s Peacock Theatre, with a show that enjoyed […]