Estuary 2025 – Vessels is the third edition of the large-scale contemporary arts festival celebrating the stories, places and people of the Thames Estuary with over 9 days of performances, installations and events across the region. […]
Nurturing innovative practice in South Asian dance
Very recently, South Asian dance organisation Akademi announced a series of commissions in partnership with DanceEast for artists who are pushing innovation in their respective dance forms. The awardees were Shivaangee Agrawal, Anjana Bala, Chandenie […]
Second Hand Dance announces new tour
Second Hand Dance’s acclaimed production The Sticky Dance, an immersive show for young children and their families, embarks on a UK tour this spring. The tour includes performances in theatres and schools around the UK, at […]
Sharif Afifi on Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me)
What better way to wipe away the winter blues than news of Lost Dog’s Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me) coming to Battersea Arts Centre this spring! An award-winning solo based on John Milton’s 17th […]
Manon Servage’s A Regarder les Etoiles
Words by Stephanie Burrell. Manon Servage and collaborator/dancer Zach Parkin’s A Regarder les Etoiles is a poetic and embodied meditation on mortality, grief and our complex relationship with it. It was staged as part of Sofar […]
GSB, Keith Alexander & Jackie Kibuka @ Resolution 2025
Words by Sarah Lapinsky. I stepped out of the theatre Friday night feeling positively exhilarated by what I had seen in the triple bill of GSB, Keith Alexander and Jackie Kibuka as part of The […]
Faye Tan on new work Infinity Duet with Cecile Johnson Soliz
Words by Maxine Flasher Duzgunes. “How can a sculpture retain its autonomy and coexist in the same space with dancers?” asks Bolivian-American sculptor Cecile Johnson Soliz, collaborator with choreographer Faye Tan on the interdisciplinary production […]
Going ‘Beyond’ at the Luzerner Theater
Words by Giordana Patumi. Beyond by Luzerner Theater’s resident dance company Tanz Luzern is a performance that provides a mixed experience, combining distinct works that explore themes of human potential, individual expression and the physicality […]
Resolution The Place begins with a bang
Words by Sarah Lapinsky. Resolution Festival 2025 opened last week with a warm welcome from Eddie Nixon, artistic director of The Place, who invited the audience to enjoy the upcoming evenings of new work with […]
The Black Swan’s Renaissance by Saffron Creative House
Words by Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes. Director Gopal Bala’s film The Black Swan’s Renaissance immerses us in the tempered reverie of Odette (the White Swan) and Odile (the Black Swan), as they battle for freedom and challenge […]