Words by Sam Burkett When I was applying for dance schools after finishing uni, I saw an audition solo that began with someone handing out raw sausages to the audience. After being offered a sausage, […]
LAZARUS @ Werkhaus on 9 April | News
LAZARUS is an inclusive event for London’s queers, creatives and misfits that unearths the creative potential of queer clubland. Its first event at Grow Tottenham last year was a sold-out night of eclectic immersive art […]
Deviant Dramaturgy: Laura Aris’ process in Linea y contorno de un abismo
Words by Paula Riofrio. Scenic art’s dramaturgy brings words and ideas to the flesh and bone, takes the thoughts into a practice that vests through enactment. It webs relationships as a rhizome among concepts, objects, […]
STIMMING towards a neurodivergent dance practice | Interview with Susanna Dye
Words by angel dust. Stimming (definition): nounrepetitive actions or movements displayed by neurodivergent people and people with developmental disorders when they are over/ under-stimulated emotionally, or by sensory input from their environment. Recently I was […]
Queen of Shade | review
Words by Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes. Recently I’ve thought about the peace of forgetting…in pieces, a canvased memory. It’s coincidental that I encounter this film now, as I’ve been considering silhouette in dance practice as a way […]
VOXED Out Late as part of Dance Passion 2022 | review
Words by Sarah Lapinsky. In Out Late, VOXED takes an innovative approach to presenting dance work online by creating an online, choose-your-own-adventure crime drama experience. With the ability to decide how the story unfolds, I […]
Neighbours by Rauf RubberLegz Yasit & Brigel Gjoka | review
Words by Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes. Performed at Sadler’s Wells. Years ago in a workshop, I remember being in process with Slovakian choreographer Anton Lachky’s “puzzle work” a Forsythian creative modality in which the body moves within […]
Lucinda Childs Dance, a hypnotic utopia | Review
Words by Paula Catalina Riofrio. Performed by Lyon Opera Ballet at Sadler’s Wells as part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels festival. … we are gonna work together, we are gonna have […]
Listening to trauma | ‘Them’ by Body Politic | Review
Words by Maria Elena Ricci [Trigger Warning: Sexual Violence] It is a heavy reality to know that 1 in 4 women in the UK will experience sexual violence at some point in their lives. Roughly […]
Creating an equitable dance industry – Interview with Dance Freelance Taskforce
The pandemic and all the activism it enkindled certainly forced many moments to their heady crises, not least the need for better support for freelancers. Given the precarity of being freelance during multiple nationwide lockdowns, […]