Words by Bengi-Sue Sirin. No one tells stories quite like the Irish, and choreographer/dancer/creative extraordinaire Michael Keegan-Dolan certainly puts paid to that. How to Be a Dancer in Seventy-Two Thousand Easy Lessons is the telling […]
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Concrete Rain Festival a celebration of East Asian dance
Taking place on 13th September, Concrete Rain Festival presented a smorgasbord of dance created by East Asian choreographers and dancers. A celebration of the quiet force and eternal beauty of East Asian dance, Concrete Rain […]
King O’Holi on Space to Create
Words by Georgia Howlett. King O’Holi prefers to stay in the background, but this hasn’t stopped him from working with household names as a movement[…]
WE SHOULD HAVE NEVER WALKED ON THE MOON by Rambert and (LA)HORDE review
Words by Bengi-Sue Sirin. ‘We should have never walked on the moon’ is a comment that Hollywood star Gene Kelly is reported to have made to astronaut Buzz Aldrin. WE SHOULD HAVE NEVER WALKED ON […]
London Adavu’s perfect ‘The Showcase’
Words by Caroline Tonks. Just a short walk from Angel tube station is LIFT, where a passionate audience has gathered to watch the second edition of London Adavu – The Showcase. London Adavu is a […]
The Joystick and The Reins by Eve Stainton
Words by Florence Nicholls. I went into this performance not having come across Eve Stainton’s work before. But, a solo choreography built on riot arrest imagery and 1980s Crime Watch TV, accompanied by a live orchestra […]
Reflecting on care at Elettra Giunta’s WMN* event
Words by Sarah Lapinsky. Where does care fit in art? It can be difficult to locate it at all in this hectic world. Care describes a thoughtful “how” in the intent of effort, whether that’s […]
Power & pain in Dynamicaa’s QUEER’D
Words by Isabela Palancean. A kaleidoscopic floor covered in multicoloured, multitextured garments. Strange mounds protruding from underneath. A fluffy pink bunny rabbit suddenly emerging from the hallway, as if by magic. Where are we? Theoretically, we should be […]
EMOTION at Siobhan Davies Studios
Words by Lydia Wharf. I’ll start with a disclaimer – they had me at the mention of ‘dawn’. Whilst I realise that it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, there’s something genuinely exciting about the notion […]
Jeremy Nedd’s from rock to rock
Words by Eoin Fenton. In 2014 Brooklyn-native Terrence ‘2 Milly’ Ferguson coined a dance move that would dominate the 2010s, the Milly Rock. You may not know it by name, but the simple movement of […]