Words by Katie Hagan. *please note this contains sexual references* Milan’s Game is 15+. Nothing seems out-of-bounds in AllouAqui Dance Theatre Company’s Milan’s Game. Over the course of 52 minutes, audience members are swept up […]
Category: reviews
(UN)COMMON GROUNDS by Klevis Elmazaj | Review
Words by Inês Carvalho. We listen to echoes of the cracking wood floor while watching an empty house. No furniture. The broken windows allow the light to come in. A room only gets inhabited when […]
Experiment 6 ‘South London Scratch Night’ | Review
Words by Stella Rousham. Seeing new work is something that I have truly missed in lockdown. For all the endless videos of old performances filmed and available online, nothing is quite the same as watching […]
Skin & Scales by Darcy Wallace | A Poetic Response
By Angel Dust and Katie Hagan. – The female body as an othered body, the body of a witch. To reclaim the touch with nature from the talons of man, whose all pervasive hegemonic gaze […]
Smithson, interrupted By Adam Moore | Hypothetical Islands | Review
Preface Robert Smithson opened western artistic practice to a new landscape of possibilities, both inside and beyond the gallery. For me, his practice engages the ongoing enquiry of my own visceral, tactile, and embodied experiences, […]
James Cousins Company | In Search of Sanctuary | Review
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 […]
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 Gluck, the great thing is not having a mind by Trinity Laban Fulbright scholar Oluwaseun […]