Words by Florence Nicholls. Romany Dear’s workshop, Constellations of ‘Together-Mess’, was held with Independent Dance on the 13th of December. Turning in the year, the day signified a cathartic farewell to the tumult of 2025, […]
Category: reviews
ODC presents Pilot 75: DIG
Words by Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes. San Francisco, CA — From the loft studio of one of San Francisco’s permanent homes for contemporary dance, six Bay Area choreographers presented new works excavating the effects of lineage on […]
Anthony Lo-Giudice’s The Guest confronts the bigotry in today’s intolerable world
Words by Maxime Swift. As the performance begins, a knight in once-shining armour walks stiffly onto the Dance City stage. He takes a seat at a small table overflowing with unanswered mail. As he struggles […]
Shovel at Roundhouse Studio Theatre: Digging beneath the known
Words by Lizzy Tan. Two people (Daze Hingorani and Alex Whelan) sit facing each other in a tub. There’s a blue wash over the intimate setting of the Roundhouse’s Studio Theatre, and a suit laid […]
Zamane Festival: an invitation to dance
Words by Inês Carvalho. Music often offers an irresistible invitation to move: to connect with what’s within and around us, feeling our bodies in a wilder pulse. As someone whose dance has always shaped both […]
An evening with KIN Collective
Words by Sarah Lapinsky. On a cold Sunday evening that made the darker days dreadfully apparent, I ventured forth to see KIN Collective’s triple bill. Walking up the (many) stairs at Chisenhale Dance Space, I […]
body on the edge of doomscroll: evan ray suzuki’s plot hole
Words by Liana Zhen-ai. I walked up the escherian steps to Pageant in Brooklyn knowing only one thing about how the evening would proceed: evan ray suzuki promised to punch me in the face at […]
HOMECOMING by Georgia Tegou & Kristina Pulejkova
Words by Georgia Howlett. Straight off the rainy streets of London, I arrive flustered at The Place. The ambience of HOMECOMING’s immersive installation is immediately serene, and therefore welcome. HOMECOMING is a mixed reality performance […]
Cherish Menzo’s macabre FRANK
Words by Maxime Swift. October – the macabre month – was a fitting time to see FRANK by Cherish Menzo. At the start of the performance (as part of Take Me Somewhere festival) once the […]
Amina Khayyam’s ‘Bibi Rukiya’s Reckless Daughter’
Words by Ranjini Nair. I was keen to attend Amina Khayyam’s Bibi Rukiya’s Reckless Daughter as a relative outsider to British South Asian dance. I say relative outsider, because even while I am trained in […]