Words by Katie Hagan. 05.07.19 Flamenco. It was unlike any dance style I’ve ever sampled in my life. Whereas with some dance styles you can to an extent see similarities — the bent knees, low […]
Artist Roman Baca talks stereotypes, Trinity Laban & his new work In-Trench
Words by Katie Hagan. The sacrificial artist is not an uncommon image in our culture. Whether you are a dancer, writer or filmmaker, you are accustomed to sacrificing many things for the sake of your […]
Rocio Molina’s Fallen from Heaven a flamenco dream – review
Words by Katie Hagan. Fallen from Heaven Sadler’s Wells, London. 09-07/19 When RocÃo Molina rolled on the floor of the unending Sadler’s Wells stage — kicking up her pure white, duvet-like caricature of a flamenco […]
Dream Ritual ‘explores the hazy chasm between waking and sleeping’ – review
Words by Stella Rousham. Dream Ritual performed at The Coronet, Notting Hill 03/07/19 Dream Ritual operates in many liminal spaces; the hazy chasm between waking and sleeping, the conscious and subconscious, virtual and physical, art […]
Build with the new & break from the old – Shobana Jeyasingh Dance’s Fluid Boundaries
Words by Katie Hagan The value of interdisciplinary, site-specific, community-led dance performances can never be stressed enough. For some they provide an escape, opening-up a space for people to see it in ways never done […]
Dance without borders : in conversation with Nicoletta Key
We sat down with fusion-ista choreographer and mover, Nicoletta Key Bonanni, to discuss her practice, her company Movement Deco‘, cross-cultural communication, movement appropriation and the intimate sources of inspiration essential to her growth as an […]
the Place LCDS Postgraduate Choreography 2019 – REVIEW
Words By Izzy Rogers, 23/05/19 Tonight brings the work of three postgraduate choreographers from London Contemporary Dance School: fresh talents making dance about what preoccupies them, minus the commercial pressures of delivering a ‘show’. The […]
Dance to suppress oppression: Aakash Odedra Company #JeSuis review
21/05/19 Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury In a digital age where information can be accessed anywhere, anytime, it is bizarre that some stories escape documentation. Among posing many questions, Aakash Odedra Company’s award-winning #JeSuis interrogates the prejudice […]
Rambert / McGregor / Motin / Shechter – review
Words by Izzy Rogers. At 2.30pm on a Thursday, thick blue-grey smoke billows into the seating at Sadler’s Wells. The auditorium is reverberating with bass notes. This is the coolest contemporary dance has ever been. […]
In conversation with IRIE! dance theatre
IRIE! dance theatre is the first dance organisation in Europe to create a full-time, three year degree that puts African and Caribbean dance at the centre of dance education. You can re-read that statement a […]