Words by Bengi-Sue Sirin. On Valentine’s Day, at 2pm, the audience at The Place Theatre was rather raucous. Shouting, giggling, bouncing around… and under 10 mostly. With parents and grandparents enthusiastically in tow, waiting for […]
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El Patio Teatro’s marvellous Entrañas
Words by Bengi-Sue Sirin. Mime and puppetry have a universality about them that charms young and old, beyond language and life experience. Then it is no surprise that the latest offering in MimeLondon, an annual […]
Tanztheater Wuppertal / Pina Bausch’s Nelken is enchanting
Words by Bengi-Sue Sirin. Every few Februarys, a special circus comes to town. They are theatrical, acrobatic, and very, very funny. The current ringmaster is Boris Charmatz, an experienced artistic director from France. This troupe’s […]
Resolution festival @ The Place roundup
The Place’s Resolution festival of new choreography brought together 54 artists and companies from London and beyond to debut and perform striking contemporary dance work. Dance art journal writers Katie Hagan, Stella Rousham and Qiao […]
Silvia Gribaudi’s Grand Jeté
Words by Giordana Patumi. Silvia Gribaudi, known for her choreographic genius infused with fertile irony, continues to captivate audiences with her latest creation, Grand Jeté. We had the pleasure of witnessing this performance at Teatro […]
Ambergris by Les Antliaclastes, a surreal odyssey
Words by Bengi-Sue Sirin. There is always many a treat to be found at London’s fantastic annual mime festival, MimeLondon. So en route to the Barbican, into its darkest depths of the Pit Theatre, I […]
New Movement Collective’s Les Noces / The Departure
Words by Bengi-Sue Sirin. If you read the interview I published just last week, you’ll know that I was very much looking forward to seeing the 60-strong creative event that was New Movement Collective’s (NMC) […]
Rambert’s macabre Death Trap
Words by Bengi-Sue Sirin. Rambert’s recent double bill, Death Trap, is on paper right up my street not only because of its interrogation of the morbid. The first piece ‘Cerberus’ is inspired by the Eurydice […]
‘The Edge of Desire Has a Way of Curving’ by Demetris Charalambous and Riven Ratanavanh
Words by Sunhi Keller. An eerily tall, hunched figure emerges from the darkness, lit only by the yellow light of a lamp held in its hands. As the shape slowly walks towards the middle of […]
Attila Andrasi’s sensational Rainbow
Words by Francesca Matthys. Attila Andrási is sensationally present with us throughout Rainbow, a new work that merges the essence of the clown with dance. This work in progress that was created in residence at […]