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, […]
Feeling Thing by Jo Bannon / Candoco Dance Company | film preview
Feeling Thing is a new film by multi-disciplinary artist Jo Bannon and co-produced by Candoco Dance Company. The film invites us to pay attention to the objects around us and experience them as the dancing, […]
The dancing flags of ARA! ARA! by Panzetti and Ticconi | Review
Words by Giordana Patumi. Review of ARA! ARA! choreographed and performed by Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi at Teatro Morlacchi of Perugia. Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi, based in Berlin and Torino, have been working […]