Words by Inês Carvalho. An ensemble of performers jam with live percussion as audiences find their way into the auditorium of the Southbank Centre. There is something going on, and it takes an extra effort […]
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Living through touch in Until We Meet
Words by Paula Catalina Riofrio. I invite you to do this task before, or rather after you read the article. Find yourself the time and space to be openly connected with your eight senses. Now […]
Seke Chimutengwende’s haunting It Begins in Darkness
Words by Francesca Matthys. A gasp of breath and shudders of whispers lure us into the haunted world of It Begins in Darkness by Seke Chimutengwende. We are immediately thrown into panic, loss, uncertainty and […]
The Spaces Between by Nina Haft & Company | Review
Words by Maxine Flasher-Düzgünes For most of our lives we’ve been conditioned to fear uncertainty – the unknowns where we’ll live and work, and who we’ll share it with…And certainly those external unknowns can be […]
1 Click Away: Art as the medium for Environmental Action
Words by Paula Catalina Riofrío. “Towers falling down” replayed one of the kids. “Things break all the time” said the other. “Waste, a lot of waste” said the tallest one. Those were the answers of […]
Souls and Cells by Akeim Toussaint Buck and Crystal Zillwood
What speaks back to you when you call out? Souls and Cells by Akeim Toussaint Buck and Crystal Zillwood embodies this and invites us to witness an embodied ritual. Ritual is indeed present in the […]
1 9 Monologue at The Place is a dance macabre
Words by Bengi-Sue Sirin. Tuberculosis is something I know very little about. It feels very far away – either as part of the Romantic poet era or as something nobody I know has had. But […]
Joan Català’s ‘Pelat’ a labour of love
Words by Francesca Matthys. Pelat, which refers to being ‘Peeled off’ in Catalan or ‘to remove the first skin’ as shared by performer Joan Català, does just that, peeling away the layers of performance, the […]
Raze Collective’s Let Us Raze You LABS
Words by Katie Hagan. Raze Collective’s work in progress night at Stanley Arts – featuring a line up of stunning and stellar artists Elle Fierce, Wet Mess and AZARA – was an absolute belter of […]
Dragons by Eun-Me Ahn
Words by Bengi-Sue Sirin. Y2K is having a moment right now, but I hadn’t yet seen that cross over into the dance world. Until last Wednesday at the Barbican Centre when I saw the latest […]